Hi all, I am wondering why there is not even one Android email client that is capable of using at least one of the three mechanisms which are available for autoconfiguring email settings. Some desktop clients (Windows, Linux, MacOS) and the iPhone email client are supposed to be capable using at least one of the following autoconfiguration mechanisms.
It looks like K9 also does not use any of the following three autoconfiguration mechanisms. I could not find even any Android client that would request the correct configuration settings. Some are just guessing configuration settings, but none of the Android clients I tested really use the information I provided in the following three ways. - Autodiscover, xml based: created by Microsoft about 10 years ago. Probably mostly for Outlook/Exchange accounts, but also works with any other email account. This site should give all information needed for implementation: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc511507(v=office.14).aspx - Autoconfig, xml based: created by the Mozilla foundation. Quite simple xml configuration information originally created for Thunderbird, in the meantime also being used by other clients. Information about this mechanism can be found here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat - DNS-based configuration: created by IETF in 2011. SRV records give all information for email configuration. Information about this way can be found here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6186 With any of these configuration mechanisms a user would only have to provide his email address and a password to get the correct configuration settings for pop3, imap and smtp (submission). I would really like if this was implemented in K9 Mail. Is this planned for the future? Thank you. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
