Olga,
You may want to check out the MAILMAINT list at the IETF, and look at the work
for AutoConfig (Ben is the author). The group is looking for feedback on the
document, and if you have feedback from experience, that may be appreciated.
--
Alex Brotman
Sr. Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy
Comcast
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> On Behalf Of Olga Fischer via
> mailop
> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 11:22 AM
> To: mailop@mailop.org
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [mailop] Auto{config,discover} Thunderbird and pain
>
> Hi Mailops,
>
> I want to use the client autoconfiguration features in a way that I do not
> need
> web-control over the main mail domain, but just with {autoconfig,autodiscover}
> subdomains.
>
> is there any exhaustive documentation on these things?
>
> My case:
>
> As automx is deprecated I used automx2 from rseichter.
> That author is very opinionated.
>
> Now.
>
> What I discovered is:
> Thunderbird and Outlook take the Mail configs just fine using the web
> endpoints
> on the subdomains.
>
> But calendar and contacts Webdav is janky.
>
> In case of autoconfig, Thunderbird seems not willing to take calendar
> settings out
> of the autoconfig.maildomain/mail/config-v1.1.xml
> But only from an endpoint out of maildomain/.well-known
>
> But on logging the requests, I see that it also does outlook autodiscover.
> Automx2 returns a correct xml then, TBird does not throw an error, it "tries
> to
> connect" to calendars but does not actually use the directions out of the
> autodiscover xml answer but tries dav related .well-known paths of the
> maildomain.
>
> But I also run a Mailcow that also does not have a webserver on the
> maildomain,
> only on the mx subdomain.
> For some weird reason that one works just fine with the same limitation.
> I compared the XML answer of autodiscover. All necessary fields are present
> and
> both conform to the xml schema.
>
> Anyone here implemented this stuff?
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