Hello Victor,

Do you use autoconfig/autodiscover?

Thanks.
Dave.


On 4/3/18, Viktor Dukhovni <postfix-us...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
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>
>> On Apr 3, 2018, at 8:08 PM, David Mehler <dave.meh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I'm wanting to do is configure clients to get their account
>> information automatically. I know this for Mozilla is called
>> autoconfig and for Microsoft it's autodiscover, and apparently there's
>> an srv record I just read about.
>
> The relevant specification is RFC6186:
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>    https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6186
>
> perhaps some MUAs support it.  Without DNSSEC such auto-configuration
> leaves important security decisions to the user (or just configures
> insecurely), and since DNSSEC is often not done on end-user devices
> even when the domain is signed, this technique carries some risk, but
> once supported by the MUA, you're no safer if you don't use it, modulo
> "training" users to accept insecurely obtained configuration options.
>
> --
>       Viktor.
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>

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