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The ISPDB, Thunderbird's database of mail configuration files.
https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/
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smtp relay feature request #79

Closed Djfe closed 8 months ago

Djfe commented 8 months ago

It would be nice if the autoconfig would also be able to store infos about SMTP relay servers :)

benbucksch commented 8 months ago

Hi Felix, could you please explain a little more? 1) What is the use case, why you need this, from a mail client perspective? Is this required? 2) How often is this needed? 3) What info exactly would you need? For each information: why is this needed? -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse the brevity.

Djfe commented 8 months ago

My thoughts on this stemmed from #38 and running across https://www.telekom.de/hilfe/apps-dienste/e-mail/einstellungen/smtp-relay-server while researching for #83 If also other types of software would start using autoconfig (RFC/IANA etc.), then it could make sense to also put SMTP relay servers into it, cause why not.

Mailclients will rarely be using SMTP relay servers or only by people knowdledgeable enough that they might not require an autoconfig.

1) I don't need this. This is purely optional. SMTP relay servers exist and their data format is very similar to outgoingServer. 2) I don't know. 3) They could also just be put into the existing autoconfig as another outgoingServer with the lowest priority, but since users cannot choose which of the configs to use in existing mail clients that might not make much sense.

If you don't see much advantage in implementing this, then we might as well let it be. Feel free to close this :)

benbucksch commented 8 months ago

Mailclients will rarely be using SMTP relay servers

OK, let's consider it out of scope, then.