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

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 20 July 2019 05:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] Auto-configuring Email Clients via WebFinger
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In article <CAKHUCzzS+k_DUwaBcvTH_68G4JS_6UHA=b6Ak49HuPVgta6zwg@mail.gmail.com> you write:
>I'm not saying that additional information isn't needed, but it'd be nice
>to be able to use SRV alongside.

There are places where, say, mailboxes with local parts starting with
A-M are on one IMAP server and those starting with N-Z are on another.
It's hard to see how you could do that with SRV records tied to the
domain.

>The Thunderbird config would need to be adapted anyway; it's not easily
>extensible, due to not using XML namespaces, for one thing.

It definitely needs extensions.

R's,
John

PS: for anyone who was going to suggest encoding the local part in the DNS for
SRV lookups, you really don't want to go there.

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