*From:* Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
*Sent:* Wednesday, 26 March 2025 at 12:57 UTC+11
*To:* Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
*Cc:* Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au>
*Subject:* RE: Evolution Functionality
On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Thunderbird running locally on my machine will auto configure the
mail servers when I supply the email address for the account I want
to define in Thunderbird, so I was querying if Evolution can do the
same thing? regards, Steve
There's a variety of ways that can be done with mail clients, I knew of
these three:
It can make guesses about mail server names based on the domain name of
the email address you're setting up. Evolution did not appear to do
this when I tried just now.
It can poll a well-known address associated with the domain name of the
email address, for a config file. I recall Evolution did appear to
support this method, I've done it in my own LAN, though it doesn't
appear to be working when I've just double-checked now. But I may have
mangled something in my network at the moment.
It can poll a central configuration service which is populated with
data about a plethora of mail services. This is a method that
Thunderbird can use (they have their own configuration server, and
Evolution will look at it).
This is what /they/ say about it:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)Autoconfig.html
And this suggests yet another scheme:
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)AutoconfigSources.html
In a nutshell, I'd say that's a sysadmin for your local computer system
dropping a configuration file into the users homespace.
Thankyou, I'll check this out. I'm trying to find a mail package that
supports sensitivity headers, that will leave the mail on the remote
server in a form that thunderbird can still download so that I don't
lose them (I might be able to flag them as unread in gmail, but I need
to check), so that I can investigate an issue at work where external
emails tagged as sensitive don't make the inbox of a shared mailbox in
Outlook but they do make the inbox of personal mailboxes, but if I use
the Office 365 mail web interface the sensitive emails do make the inbox
of the shared mailbox. If I send an email from my personal mailbox to
the shared mailbox that I have flagged as sensitive from Outlook (which
as far as I can see is specifying the same headers as the program I
wrote to send the mail) the mail does make the inbox of the shared
mailbox. Because of all this the admins are saying that the mail
environment is working correctly therefore they cannot provide any
assistance to resolve the issue. I'm also seeing headers provided by an
application the organisation is using to "protect" the mail system from
external mails, that are saying the mail source has not been specified
in the organisations domain as a permitted mail source, but I see those
messages in both sensitive and non-sensitive mails that make it to the
personal mailboxes, so I'm not sure yet what they mean, and the admins
are ignoring those messages, hence I'm trying to send a sensitive mail
from home to see what happens with that, which is why I'm looking at
Evolution functionality because Thunderbird doesn't support sensitivity
options. I've just also tried this from the gmail web interface, where
gmail can tag a mail as confidential and specify an expiry date for the
mail, where it is saying the recipient cannot forward, copy, print or
download the email. regards, Steve--
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