[Evolution] [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-hall-submit-srv-00.txt]

[Timo Sirainen <tss iki fi>]

Looks like a nice idea to me.

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• From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall ehsco com>
• To: tss iki fi
• Subject: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-hall-submit-srv-00.txt]
• Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 08:43:25 -0500

[Timo, can you forward this to the Evolution devs is you can't respond for
it?]

Hi,

I'm wondering if you can take a look at the algorithm specified in the
referenced I-D and give your comments as to its viability for use in your
messaging client.

Specifically, the I-D defines mechanisms for using SRV resource records
which have been mapped to the domain element of email addresses as a way
to discover the submission servers associated with those mail domains, on
the assumption that the presence of an email address implies that the user
has accounts in those domains, and is therefore authorized to use the
submission servers associated with those mail domains. I'm developing a
sister spec which will use the same basic alogirithm to look for the IMAP
servers and then the POP servers (in that order) associated with the
user's known mail domains, but want to get the algorithm right first.

When the two specs are used together, they will [hopefully] allow a mail
client to autoconfigure the submission and retrieval servers using simple
DNS lookups, based on a known email address as the only input. This
approach should be useful for home/ISP users, and also for mobile users
who use different servers depending on where they are and their view of
the zone data associated with a mail domain at any given time. This
approach also provides recovery mechanisms when a static preconfigured
server becomes unavailable for some reason.

Any comments would be appreciated. You can either reply back to us or send
your comments to the ietf-submit imc org mailing list.

Thanks

-- 
Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.


        Title           : Message-Submission SRV Resource Record
        Author(s)       : E. Hall, J. Klensin
        Filename        : draft-hall-submit-srv-00.txt
        Pages           : 11
        Date            : 2003-6-18
        
This document specifies the use of SRV resource records for 
locating the message-submission servers associated with a known 
mail domain.

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