Am 01.01.2013 20:08, schrieb Patrick Ben Koetter: > * Robert Moskowitz <[email protected]>: >> >> On 01/01/2013 01:39 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: >>> * Tom Hendrikx <[email protected]>: >>>> On 01-01-13 18:01, Ben Morrow wrote: >>>>> At 5PM +0100 on 1/01/13 you (Tom Hendrikx) wrote: >>>>>> If you want to advertise your mail config for easy setup over the >>>>>> internet, take a look at: http://www.automx.org/ >>>>> I thought most gooey mail clients supported RFC 6186 nowadays? >>>>> >>>>> Ben >>>>> >>>> As you can see from their docs, it supports a lot more than what you can >>>> put in SRV DNS records AFAIK. I don't use either of the solutions >>>> actively, and don't support any client setups so I don't really know >>>> what is currently available in clients, and needed or superior on server >>>> side. >>> automx combines Mozillas autoconfig service and Microsofts autodiscover >>> service in one tool. With automx you can provision SMTP/POP/IMAP and >>> ActiveSync account settings (but not the services themselves). >>> >>> Microsoft Outlook 2007+, Thunderbird 3+, Microsoft Mobiles and other mobiles >>> known to support ActiveSync can make use of the automx webservice.
typo not "activesync" they do autoconfig Outlook 2013 can do in deed activesync , but this is off topic here >>> >>> Apple products do not support either MS' or MZ's provisioning services. >>> AFAIK >>> the only way to configure these clients is to store an XML file at a >>> dedicated >>> location in advance, use the Apple Configurator or go the real hard way and >>> use Mobile Device Management (MDM) services. >>> >>> The aforementioned RFC 6186 has shortcommings compared to >>> autodiscover/autoconfig-services: You can tell the service location (URI) >>> and >>> port, but you can't specify transport policies (plaintext, SSL, STARTTLS), >>> authentication mechanisms etc. I would not want to use it in a business >>> environment. >> >> thank you very much for this analysis. SRV records were only >> intented to find the services that would then set up the policies. >> There is considerable pushback on using DNS for a general purpose >> database. I had to fight for my HIP DNS RRs for holding just Host >> Identities. >> >> I see that it can use SQL for some information handling. Does it >> work with the sql tables managed by postfixadmin? > > We - Christian and I - haven't tried, but I am sure it will, because you are > free to define any SQL query you want in automx to get what you want from > postfixadmin. > > You may also use Modoboa to manage the mailboxes. Antoine just ran a blog > article on using automx with it: > <http://modoboa.org/en/weblog/2012/12/16/make-users-life-easier-with-automx/> > > p@rick > > > > >> >> > Best Regards MfG Robert Schetterer -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Axel von der Ohe, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Joerg Heidrich
