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

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Tue, 16 July 2019 19:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] Auto-configuring Email Clients via WebFinger
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John Levine:
> Yes, I realize that.  But my point is that the scheme I show 
> actually exists, whereas webfinger in MUAs does not.

And it has a little over ten years of deployment history, so it works for 
quite a lot of users now. Anything that's functionally similar but not 
compatible (from the viewpoint of domain owners) will have to work hard to 
gain that deployment.

Arnt

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