On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: > > Personally, I'd like a document saying "these are the SRV labels to use for > email, should you wish to use any" with an informative by-the-way section > saying basically "and if your SRV targets are so-and-so, outlook will be > happy". That's not ideal, but it's my preferred compromise.
I mostly agree. However current autoguess configurers just looks for plausible A records, e.g. mail.domain / imap.domain / smtp.domain etc. which is why I say there's no need for SRV records. > The Thunderbird authors are nice guys (nicer than I am at any rate) and if you > suggest to them that if the best _imap._tcp SRV has better priority than the > best _pop3._tcp, tb should default to IMAP, they'll probably do it. They already think that way :-) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <[email protected]> http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.
