1109991 - Remove mozilla.com from ISPDB after mozilla.com MX entries point to Google

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools :: ISPDB Database Entries, defect)

Description

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

mozilla.com is switching from self-hosted Zimbra email to Google-hosted email, with the cutover nominally happening by 7am PT on Monday, December 15th, 2014.  Rather than changing mozilla.com's entries to reference the gmail servers, it would arguably be preferable to just delete the entry and let the MX lookup logic handle this.

Specifically:

- Thunderbird's ISPDB MX-lookup logic is capable of noticing that a domain is using gmail for delivery purposes and from there determining to use gmail.

- The Firefox OS Gaia email app is likewise capable of noticing this.  More importantly for the Gaia email app, because it implements OAuth2 support for gmail and it needs to know it's talking to gmail via the MX-lookups, the Gaia email app's autoconfig mechanism needs the ISPDB entry for mozilla.com to go away (or to host an overriding autoconfig entry locally in its app package).

I don't actually know when the MX entry cutover will happen, of course, so maybe we'll need to do an update or something.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I guess justdave would be in the know of a bunch of details.

Comment 2

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

MX entries had not changed for mozilla.com so we added a local autoconfig entry to Firefox OS's trunk (v2.2) in bug 1111662.  The OAuth2 dance worked and things are fine.  Tentatively, the change on this bug will still be required for v2.1 since we have less ability to get changes made on v2.1 and I'd rather leave it possible for Mozilla to stand up an autoconfig server or be able to update the ISPDB entry, as needed.

Comment 3

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Update: mozilla.com's MX entries now point to gmail's servers, although mozilla.org is still pointed at postini.

Comment 4

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Please remove the lines
<domain>mozilla.com</domain>
<domain>mozillafoundation.org</domain>
from file googlemail.com <https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/googlemail.com>

Comment 5

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Attachment: Remove mozilla.com, now unnecessary

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Interestingly enough, my attempt to auto-set-up my email on fxos 2.1 was still picking up zimbra just a few minutes ago, and not gmail.

Comment 7

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Comment on attachment 8537162 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove mozilla.com, now unnecessary

Looking good

Comment 8

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Comment on attachment 8537162 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove mozilla.com, now unnecessary

Thanks, Ben!

Comment 9

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

I just tried and I lack svn access rights to svn.mozilla.org/mozillamessaging.com/sites/autoconfig.mozillamessaging.com/trunk, Mark, or someone else, could you check this in?

Comment 10

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Committed in r136657