On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 07:30 +0100, André Rodier via desktop-devel-list wrote:
Hello all, I hope I am posting on the right mailing list. I am working on a project that installs an email server from scratch. I am setting up DNS records for email services automatic discovery (RFC 6186) but it seems that evolution is ignoring them.
You might do better on the evolution mailing list (now in Cc), or just bugzilla.
However, something is definitely working, as my domain is hosted on Gandi, and the automatic settings come back with Gandi IMAP/SMTP records, even if I don't use Gandi to host emails. What is the logic used by evolution to automatically discover email parameters?
I don't think Evolution ever got RFC6186 support. See discussion at https://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/src/mail/e-mail-autoconfig.c#n18 It might make a decent GSoC project. It would also be useful to delegate the various protocols' autodiscover mechanisms to the back ends, instead of having protocol-specific knowledge for EWS, ActiveSync, IMAP and other stuff hard-coded into Evolution itself.
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