Since last Friday, auto-configuration as been enabled in Thunderbird nightlies. This means that configuring an email account will just be - in most cases - your email , your password and your name and Thunderbird is going to "guess" the settings. Sometimes guessing works - sometimes it does not. When it does not we get the information from a list that we maintain. Unfortunately we can't have account for all Internet service providers all over the world - this is why I'm writing all this, you can help us by making the list bigger, adding your ISP will help (especially with security settings for authentication.) Instructions and list are editable.
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From the email address we try to guess the user name and the settings. We really can't guess the password.
how will this guessing work
Thunderbird will guess the email address and the password as well is this the thing...?
The algorithm is documented at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration. I don't know what outlook algorithm you are talking about.
We do not support SRV records du to poor DNS support in the mozilla's networking stack.
I adminsiter a University mail server. I don't want to maintain my server settings in a Thunderbird database. Where is the guessing algorithm documented? It is compatible with Outlook's algorithm? Do you support SRV records, or some other standard.
Gmx should be supported. for the other one have a look at http://ispdb.mozillamessaging.com
I want to see www.GMX.com mail supported if possible and Ureac.com
If it's https , you'll end up with a Error message. Best place to ask would be http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/
What do you mean? The list will still be fetched through HTTP(S), won't it? So we - as a company running our own name server - could "replace" it with a hand-made list. Couldn't we?
It tries imap first (send imap request - then fallbacks on pop). Once the protocol is know we try to see if we can secure it. Bug referenced is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422814
I wonder how the guessing works. Can you give a short explanation of what it does exactly, or reference a bug number?
So we have already discussed some of the technical issue for managing the list at : http://ascher.ca/blog/2009/01/20/how-should-we-manage-autoconfiguration-files/ I think DNS records were taken into consideration but we choosed a simpler path to deliver the feature.
One solution for company mail settings would be to tweak company DNS so that TB fetches an "alternative" ISP list. Which could provide company specific settings.
It might be a bit naïve, but I can't see (yet) how it won't work.
I think our initial focus would be ISP. I don't think we have something against company mail settings - but for that we might need some sort of agreement that the company is ok with having it's emails settings out there in a visible form.
It's only ISP's right? Or can I add company mail settings?