Closed
Bug 675476
Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Support for rfc6186 - Autoconfiguration of email by SRV record
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, enhancement)
Thunderbird
Account Manager
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 342242
People
(Reporter: hugo, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110619060346
Steps to reproduce:
I'd like to propose support for rfc6186. rfc6186 has been recently approved, and defines a method for using SRV record for e-mail autoconfiguration (pop, imap and smtp).
The rfc is extremely simple, and it's implementation should atempt to retrieve the apropiate configuration for an e-mail address with the user just typing in his e-mail address.
This could replace the currenty "autoconfiguration" on thunderbird, or complement is (first atempt the RFC, then use whatever method it uses now).
I'd say replace is better, since I've never been able to get the current one to work.
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Updated•13 years ago
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OS: Linux → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
Updated•13 years ago
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Severity: normal → enhancement
Summary: [Feature request] Support for rfc6186 → Support for rfc6186 - Autoconfiguration of email by SRV record
Comment 1•13 years ago
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Hugo isn't this a duplicate of bug 342242 ?
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Comment 2•13 years ago
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Sort of. It didn't show up on my searches though, even though I did search for rfc6186, and that bug's comments mention it.
I propose simply complying with rfc6186, while that feature request proposes an alternate mechanism for autoconfiguration. I belive that implementing an IETF rfc is better for administrators, thunderbird, and the community.
If you belive that implementing it would be a good choice, when you might:
* WONTFIX the other bug, and CONFIRM this one,
OR
* Modify the other bug report to actually request implementing rfc6186 instead of what is currently proposes, and mark as DUPE.
As they are now, I don't consider them duplicates, the goal of the features requested is the same, but the request is a different one with different thing to consider.
Updated•13 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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