Re: [apps-discuss] Mail client configuration via WebFinger

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Tue, 09 February 2016 01:14 UTC

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On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:12 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>>Within the enterprise -- especially the larger ones -- you are entirely
>>correct that device management systems provide a good solution for most
>>of the employees.
>
> There are plenty of people using mail systems on networks not under
> the same management as the mail server.  I'd think that most
> smartphone users would be in that situation.

BYOD is now the name of the game.

And you don't have an email app configuration solution unless you can
configure S/MIME and OpenPGP.