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Re: [art] Auto-configuring Email Clients via WebFinger

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Thu, 18 July 2019 06:33 UTC

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On Thursday 18 July 2019 07:17:55 CEST, John Levine wrote:
>> In the end i will have to implement actions aka "clickable" URLs
>> for a text-mode mail reader.
>
> I don't understand that at all.  Why would you need to do that?

It sounds as if Steffen hasn't looked at Thunderbird autoconfiguration, at 
all, and is arguing that something else would be bad.

BTW, Thunderbird is unlikely to be the only client that uses its scheme. 
The relevant stack overflow questions overwhelmingly point to the 
Thunderbird scheme.

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bimap%5D+autoconfiguration
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bmail%5D+autoconfiguration

Arnt

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