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I guess support for proprietary specifications is useful, but I really wish Mozilla would prioritise implementing standards like auto-discovery of email submiss
by WhyNotHugo 3y ago
I guess support for proprietary specifications is useful, but I really wish Mozilla would prioritise implementing standards like auto-discovery of email submission (SMTP) servers (rfc6186, 2011).
Currently, users have to manually provide hostname and port of their SMTP server, which is likely fine for those of us on this website, but not at all friendly for the other 99.9% of the human population.
The amount of effort require to implement all of Exchange is also probably orders of magnitude more than discovery of submission servers via DNS/SRV. I really don't get Mozilla's priorities.
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> Currently, users have to manually provide hostname and port of their SMTP server i don't think I had to do that when I added my Hotmail, Google, or Yahoo accounts to Thunderbird. I just used my email address at each of them. Are these treated as special cases?
- WhyNotHugo 3y agoMozilla keeps a centralised database with configuration for common providers. The ones you mention are likely in that database.
- CaptainZapp 3y agoI neither had to do that with a custom email. I entered the email addy and the password and Thunderbird congigured the account automatically. Snd that was a few years ago.