* Alessio Cecchi <[email protected]>: > Il 29/02/2012 20:43, Patrick Ben Koetter ha scritto: > >SOGo Users, > > > >I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account > >easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password. > >Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest. > > > >automx runs on your server and handles mail account profile requests from > >your > >mail clients. It unifies Microsofts and Mozillas mail account provisioning > >standards in one powerful Open Source tool. Choose from many backends, > >including LDAP and SQL, and let automx create standard and individualized > >profiles for multiple domains on the fly! > > > >automx is Open Source software released under GPL3. > > > >More on http://automx.org > > > >p@rick > > > > Very usefull tool, what is the protocol, behind automx, that make > transparent the configuration for clients from different vendors?
Glad you like it! automx unifies two proprietary standards from Microsoft and Mozilla. Both use http(s) for client and server communication. Mozilla uses a GET request and transmits a mail address. Microsoft uses a POST request and sends an XML file which may contain more than a mail address. Microsoft and Mozilla send their data to different URLs. That makes it easy to tell them apart and return something they will accept as account profile. In either case the server (automx) sends an XML response. You can use the automx-test comnand line tool to see what automx turns back like this: $ automx-test [email protected] p@rick -- state of mind () Digitale Kommunikation http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563 -- [email protected] https://inverse.ca/sogo/lists
