News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Show HN: Unibox, the people-centric email client released... by mrud on Thursday October 24, 2013 @10:57AM (#6605617)
Mozilla describes a canonical way to detect settings [1]:

1) Use the global ISPDB, e.g. https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/v1.1/$DOMAIN, e.g https://live.mozillamessaging.com/autoconfig/v1.1/gmail.com and extract the information

2) Try to use the provider specific db http://autoconfig.example.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml?emailaddr...

3) Fallback to http://example.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.x...

It also utilizes MX records and not only the domain.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird...

There are no comments on this comment yet.