Bug 38452 - Support autodiscover for email clients
Support autodiscover for email clients
Status: REOPENED
Product: UCS
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Mail
UCS 4.4
Other Linux
: P5 normal with 2 votes (vote)
: UCS 4.0-x
Assigned To: Mail maintainers
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Reported: 2015-05-06 13:14 CEST by Daniel Tröder
Modified: 2020-06-19 16:58 CEST (History)
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Description Daniel Tröder univentionstaff 2015-05-06 13:14:30 CEST
MS Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird support auto discovery of the correct mail server settings. The user only needs to enter its email address, and the rest will be filled in automatically.

Outlook: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124251%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx
Thunderbird: https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

The mechanism are similar:
Basically both support creating DNS records or storing a XML file on a webserver. The products look for different names in both DNS and web and the files differ too.
Comment 1 Daniel Tröder univentionstaff 2015-05-06 19:09:41 CEST
Beautiful OSS solution: https://automx.org/
Would needs DNS entries autoconfig.example.com and autodiscover.example.com to point to the IP of a UCS where a wsgi_python script runs a service that can configure Microsoft Outlook 2007 or higher, Thunderbird 3.0 or higher, an iOS or MacOS device, a recent version of Evolution, KMail or Kontact.
Comment 2 Lutz Willek 2018-03-08 09:47:15 CET
Hi Univention,

there are now two instructions for setting up automx in UCS, so maybe this bug can be closed.

german: https://help.univention.com/t/howto-automx/4679
english: https://help.univention.com/t/howto-automx-and-ucs/8135

cheers Lutz
Comment 3 Stefan Gohmann univentionstaff 2019-01-03 07:16:54 CET
This issue has been filled against UCS 4.0. The maintenance with bug and security fixes for UCS 4.0 has ended on 31st of May 2016.

Customers still on UCS 4.0 are encouraged to update to UCS 4.3. Please contact
your partner or Univention for any questions.

If this issue still occurs in newer UCS versions, please use "Clone this bug" or simply reopen the issue. In this case please provide detailed information on how this issue is affecting you.
Comment 4 Daniel Tröder univentionstaff 2019-01-03 08:28:09 CET
Still a desirable feature and not difficult to implement.