819620 - [email/activesync] Add an autoconfig entry for @outlook.com addresses

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::E-Mail, defect, P2)

Description

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Outlook.com is Microsoft's new, fancier(?) webmail service designed, I think, to replace Hotmail eventually. We should add an autoconfig entry for it to make setup work quickly. 

Currently, it tries to redirect us to Hotmail's autodiscovery, which initially fails because HTTP 302 changes "POST" to "GET", so we're forced to go through an MX lookup as well. That's a lot of extra work when the result is known ahead of time.

The fix for this is really easy (just copy apps/email/autoconfig/hotmail.com, and as a bonus, make sure to update all the Hotmail autoconfig files to list outlook.com as a domain).

Comment 1

[Joe Cheng [:jcheng] (please needinfo)]

BB+, P2 - severe usability issue for outlook.com users

Comment 2

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Note that I tested the email app with an outlook.com address, and everything works fine. It's just slower than necessary (but still pretty quick on a wired connection).

Comment 3

[Jim Porter (:squib)]

Merged: https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/6927

Comment 4

[Nick Davidson]

Attachment: Outlook email

Comment 5

[Nick Davidson]

verified Outlook.com email works on Unagi build 20121231070201 using Active sync