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

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 16 July 2019 02:34 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [art] Auto-configuring Email Clients via WebFinger
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In article <eme8317959-26f9-4a9d-b2be-d2f8cb0961f6@sydney> you write:
>We'd love to have some dialog on this to see how we can address this 
>problem of auto-configuring email clients.

The Thunderbird MUA has has this kind of autoconfiguration for many
years, with the MUA fetching an XML config file.  I wouldn't say it's
perfect but I would say it's widely deployed.

See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat

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