Re: [Evolution-hackers] Account autoconfiguration/autodiscover

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 08:51 +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> I have many users with Evolution 3.10.4 in Ubuntu 14.04

        Hi,
the current Evolution (also the development version 3.19.90) doesn't
support any kind of this autodiscover thing for mail accounts. The
settings lookup is read from static tables on a GNOME server.

On the other hand, you can prepare set of .source files, located at
   ~/.config/evolution/sources
with preconfigured settings and distribute these to your users. I know
it's not the same, but it can help to admins, at least a bit.

The only piece software which uses some autodiscovery is evolution-ews
(eventually also evolution-activesync), but that is strictly used for
Microsoft Exchange servers, not for any random.

Similar things had been discussed recently.
Related bug reports in GNOME's bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640598
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=720603
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750564

If you could create a new bug report (or find an existing) and add
there a reference to any developer documentation which describes how
your server autodiscover settings exactly work, then it can be added to
the pool of these bugs.
        Thanks and bye,
        Milan