Univention Bugzilla – Bug 38452
Support autodiscover for email clients
Last modified: 2020-06-19 16:58:20 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.
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.
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
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.
Still a desirable feature and not difficult to implement.