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== ISP Centric Configuration Discovery == | |||
How about creating a "standard" to allow auto-discovery information in DNS TXT field, similar to that of whatever span prevention thing (sorry I forgot the name of that technology)? ISP and Domain owner can then maintain their configuration without submitting changes to every mail client vendor. | |||
Web page discovery style with META tag or MicroFormat like OpenID should works equally well. | |||
A lot of things has to the think through like trust, compatibility and flexibility. But I believe this kind of model works better than contributor creating the list. Of course, both technology can exists and implemented at the same time. | |||
Revision as of 14:03, 17 May 2008
Usage statistics about the major mail providers in comparison to general usuage would be interesting. Some unbelievable claims have been made (even on this page).
- The important group of University and institutional providers is missing in the ISP listing of the Goal section. This would fit between "Smaller ISPs" and "Corporate employee accounts". We are talking of frequently >10000 users per institution. An easy (auto)configuration scheme would help Thunderbird's acceptance. Before comming across this page here, I had already commented in Easy Account Setup with collected suggestions on how to simplify the generation of ISP files and extend the manual setup (just replace RDF by XML, or whatever the final format will be, and those statements should still be valid). --Rsx11m 08:51, 22 March 2008 (PDT)
POP vs. IMAP
What do we do when the ISP offers both POP and IMAP? My vote goes for IMAP (hands-down).
- Voting for IMAP, or maybe provide an easy to understand dialog if multiple choices are available. Are there any reasons why somebody would prefer POP over IMAP? You can still work offline with IMAP, so that's not an argument. I mostly see advantages of IMAP over POP in many aspects. --Rsx11m 08:51, 22 March 2008 (PDT)
- Voting for User to Choose. Prefer POP by IMAP when ISP charge you for the storage size. --sam0737 06:57, 17 May 2008 (PDT)
ISP Centric Configuration Discovery
How about creating a "standard" to allow auto-discovery information in DNS TXT field, similar to that of whatever span prevention thing (sorry I forgot the name of that technology)? ISP and Domain owner can then maintain their configuration without submitting changes to every mail client vendor.
Web page discovery style with META tag or MicroFormat like OpenID should works equally well.
A lot of things has to the think through like trust, compatibility and flexibility. But I believe this kind of model works better than contributor creating the list. Of course, both technology can exists and implemented at the same time.