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

["John R Levine" <[e-mail]>]

> Other than Thunderbird, what clients support Mozilla's procedures?

I don't know.  But it exists, it works, and it is available to the public.

> I really don't care about any existing proprietary solutions out there, as 
> they're clearly doing me no good at all.

For one thing, Thunderbird is MPL licensed open source, so the design and 
the code that implements it are available to anyone who wants to use them. 
This is an odd definition of "proprietary."

Also, "It doesn't work in my MUA" is not much of an argument.  It's 
unlikely that my MUA (alpine) will implement whatever webfinger thing you 
propose so by that arguement we're all wasting our time.

> I'd prefer we define something simple that people will adopt.

Not to repeat myself, but the Mozilla thing exists, is implemented in at 
least one fairly popular MUA, and has code available.

I suppose I could talk to people at Microsoft and Google and see if they'd 
be interested if we came up with something.  What's your plan?

Regards,
John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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