Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote:
El 15/08/13 14:33, Paul B. Gallagher escribió:
Ricardo Palomares Martínez wrote:
Please note that having only one ISP, which is the common
scenario indeed, has little or nothing to do with having email
accounts with different email providers.
Sure. But it does mean you have one SMTP server for all accounts,
which /is/ one of the things we're talking about.
Hardly. Any correctly configured SMTP server will not allow to
process a message whose sender does not belong to the domain of the
SMTP server itself (otherwise, it would be an open relay available to
be abused to distribute SPAM), so it means that, if you use email
accounts with three different providers, then you need not only
three POP/IMAP accounts, but also three SMTP servers.
There's some truth to what you're saying, but in the real world there
are lots of cases like this, and I'm one of them.
I have an ISP and an email account with them, and I use their SMTP
server unless it's down. They require SSL/TSL.
I have my own domain, and for those accounts I use their SMTP server
unless it's down. They don't require SSL/TSL.
I have a Gmail account, and I can use either of the first two SMTP
servers for it without difficulty. They require SSL/TSL.
If either SMTP server is down, I just switch to the other, no problem.
I wouldn't go that way. You could ask for the email address (that's
something the user is pretty much expected to know) :-) and, if the
domain happens to be the same than an existing account, then some
fields could be prepopulated, and the SMTP server used by default.
I think most users would already know whether the new account has the
same domain as an existing account, and in that case they /would/
choose to prepopulate and edit. Do they really need help with that
decision?
We may be envisioning slightly different UIs. I thought your idea of a
new email account wizard was something like: ...
I could live with either one.
Overall, the autoconfig feature from Thunderbird should be the
way to go, although it is not perfect.
I'm not familiar with the features of TB,
It uses a mix of de-facto standards and heuristics:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration >
Supposedly, any email provider can be queried to get an XML with the
configuration details for any given email account. Mozilla was going
to host a central database for most popular email providers.
If the above fails, Thunderbird tries with usual server names:
imap.domain.com, pop.domain.com, smtp.domain.com, etc.
Makes sense, and should be easy to implement for SM.
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Paul B. Gallagher
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