* Jakob Lenfers <[email protected]>:
> Am 29.02.2012 20:43, schrieb Patrick Ben Koetter:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Cool! I'm still not 100% sure what the tool does: It would be enough to
> know your name, mail and password to setup an account? And that in a
> couple of different mail clients, right?

Exactly. As simple as that.

> So if I already setup mozillas autoconfig
> (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration) and
> only use Thunderbird, it would be the same result, wouldn't it?

Yes, with the two significant differences:

- automx is ONE TOOL that provides service for clients (TB, KMail, Kontact and
  - rumor - some Android mobiles) following MOZILLAs standard and clients
  (Outlook 2003+, MS Mobiles) following MICROSOFTs way of client account
  profile provisioning.
- automx can serve dynamic profiles for many domains i.e. not only one static
  file, but e.g. lookup user specific settings in a database or LDAP server
  and return a profile especially built for that one user/group.
  You can, for example, have two MDAs (Exchange/SOGo) and tell group A to use
  Exchange and group B to use SOGo.
  You can also script it. Take a look at the section_filter feature. The dark
  side of provisioning it leads you to ... ;)

p@rick

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