580930 - [config] Add btinternet.com (UK)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools :: ISPDB Database Entries, defect)

Comment 1

[Chris Ramsden]

btinternet.com & btopenworld.com

http://btybb.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/btybb.cfg/php/enduser/cci/bty_adp.php?p_sid=oaP4Hg9k&cat_lvl1=149&cat_lvl2=150&p_cv=2.150&p_cats=149,150&p_faqid=6876

Note: yahoo! != yahoo.com

<clientConfig version="3.0">
−
<emailProvider id="">
<domain>btinternet.com</domain>
<domain>btopenworld.com</domain>
<displayName>BT</displayName>
<displayShortName>bt</displayShortName>
−
<incomingServer type="pop3">
<hostname>mail.btinternet.com</hostname>
<port>110</port>
<socketType>plain</socketType>
<username/>
<authentication>plain</authentication>
</incomingServer>
−
<outgoingServer type="smtp">
<hostname>mail.btinternet.com</hostname>
<port>25</port>
<socketType>plain</socketType>
<username>[e-mail], [e-mail]</username>
<authentication>plain</authentication>
<addThisServer>false</addThisServer>
<useGlobalPreferredServer>false</useGlobalPreferredServer>
</outgoingServer>
</emailProvider>
</clientConfig>

Comment 2

[Damian Morrison]

New client config settings (No longer uses Yahoo! as a provider and uses IMAP over POP and SSL for all protocols):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<clientConfig version="1.1">
  <emailProvider id="btinternet.com">
    <domain>btinternet.com</domain>
	<domain>btopenworld.com</domain>
	<domain>talk21.com</domain>
    <displayName>BT Mail</displayName>
    <displayShortName>BT Mail</displayShortName>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.btinternet.com</hostname>
      <port>993</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <incomingServer type="pop3">
      <hostname>mail.btinternet.com</hostname>
      <port>995</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>mail.btinternet.com</hostname>
      <port>465</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <documentation url="http://diagnostics.bt.com/login/?workflow=Email">
      <descr lang="en">Configure BT Mail</descr>
    </documentation>
  </emailProvider>
</clientConfig>

Comment 3

[echo4]

BT has a configuration server (Configuration server at ISP)
* http://autoconfig.btinternet.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml
* http://autoconfig.btopenworld.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml
* http://autoconfig.talk21.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml

Comment 4

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

(In reply to chief_uk_2613 from comment #3)
> BT has a configuration server (Configuration server at ISP)
> * http://autoconfig.btinternet.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml
> * http://autoconfig.btopenworld.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml
> * http://autoconfig.talk21.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml

Thanks very much for doing this research!

I found that the server does respond on https, but that it only has a valid certificate for https://autodiscover.btinternet.com so I've added the entry to the ISPDB for the benefit of clients that only trust secure sources.  (Currently that's Firefox OS gaia mail and Torbirdy and possibly other Thunderbird derivatives.)  (And if the entries had been available via https I would not have added them but instead marked this bug RESOLVED WORKSFORME.)

$ svn commit
Adding         btinternet.com
Transmitting file data .
Committed revision 150305.

Comment 5

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

And note that all clients should be favoring self-hosted entries over ISPDB-hosted entries *if they trust the host*.  gaia mail, for example, will check the https versions of those domains and if they respond it will ignore whatever the ISPDB returns.