* 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 -- 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
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