[mailmaint] Re: autoconfig consensus points

[Michel Le Bihan <[e-mail]>]

One thing worth noting: CIMD or DCR still don't tell a client which OAuth server to use for a given domain. Autoconfig or PACC would still be needed for that discovery step.

Michel Le Bihan

Dnia 29 lipca 2026 11:25:29 CEST, Brendan Abolivier <brendan=[e-mail]> napisał/a:
>Hi there! Long time reader, first time caller.
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>On 29/07/2026 10:49, Mauro De Gennaro wrote:
>>> Given this, it should clearly match what Thunderbird does now, and not try to change it or add new things.
>> Thunderbird only supports OAuth against Gmail and a few other large mailbox providers because they have hardcoded the OAuth endpoints. They do not support automatic discovery of OAuth endpoints, and the last time I spoke with the TB developers, they were planning to support OAuth through PACC instead. I will ask them to confirm in the Matrix room.
>> I think the OAuth section should be removed from this document, as to my knowledge it has not been implemented in any clients or servers.
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>As a Thunderbird developer, I'm not personally aware of current plans to support OAuth through PACC. We'll be looking into PACC support in Thunderbird at some point, but regarding automatic OAuth discovery specifically we're currently looking in the direction of DCR and CIMD. Though I'm open to adding PACC to that list.
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>Cheers,
>Brendan
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