Feature Request: IMAP/SMTP Autoconfiguration / Autodiscovery

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Feature Request: IMAP/SMTP Autoconfiguration / Autodiscovery #1045

Open pio2398 opened 8 years ago

pio2398 commented 8 years ago

N1 should support autoconfiguration of IMAP/SMTP like Thunderbird does. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

kfix commented 8 years ago

There are 3 non-exclusive ways that current mail clients can be autoconfigured:

Autodiscover.xml (Outlook)
ISPDB (Thunderbird)
RFC6186 DNS records (Mac/iOS Mail.app)
- Thunderbird bug
- Evolution support

The DNS method makes way more sense to me, since you must have functioning DNS for a domain to host mail, but HTTP is not at all a requirement to do so.