Hi Michael, Isn’t the password in the response based on the password that was entered by the user itself? If I can find some time, I will give it a try.
Kind regards, Taco > On 22 Oct 2023, at 13:15, Michael Stauber via Blueonyx > <blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it> wrote: > > Hi Taco, > >> I believe part of the solution is also setting the zones > > for the e-mail domain up with specific SRV records, pointing > > to a web service that outputs an XML with e-mail server > > configuration. > > >> I never looked into this very thoroughly, but maybe the > > XML file can also contain the right username (format). > > Yeah, Chris Gebhard pointed this out to me recently and somehow I wasn't even > aware that this feature exists. So I looked it up and it is pretty neat. > > It seems to work like this: > > CNAME DNS record autodiscover.Vsite.com points to > autodiscover.emailprovider.com > > SRV Record autodiscover.emailprovider.com has something like this in it: > > Record Type: SRV > Service: _autodiscover > Protocol: _tcp > Port: 443 (or the appropriate port for secure connections) > Priority: 10 (or another priority value) > Weight: 0 (or another weight value) > Target: autodiscover.emailprovider.com > > And that tells the Email client to connect to ... > > https://autodiscover.emailprovider.com:443 > > ... where it gets a JSON (or XML) file with the information it needs. That > info could look like this if it were presented in JSON: > > { > "EmailAddress": "u...@example.com", > "IncomingServer": { > "Type": "IMAP", > "Hostname": "imap.emailprovider.com", > "Port": 993, > "Encryption": "SSL/TLS" > }, > "OutgoingServer": { > "Hostname": "smtp.emailprovider.com", > "Port": 587, > "Encryption": "STARTTLS" > }, > "Username": "user", > "Password": "password", > "Authentication": "Basic", > "DisplayName": "User Name" > } > > Naturally we won't and can't serve "Username" and "Password" out this way, > but the above shows that the general mechanism allows it. So in the end the > user would need to enter the password himself, but the rest would > auto-configure. > > The way I would integrate this is probably have the SRV point to > https://autodiscover.emailprovider.com:81/ and let the GUI create a JSON file > with the correct info on the fly. > > I have this pretty high on my list of future features for BlueOnyx. But right > now it's about 1-2 items behind "new and modernized GUI template". Work on > that is currently going full swing. > > Here is an image of an early prototype mock-up of the general look and feel. > The mobile version also looks pretty neat and has actual usability to > compared to what we currently have. > > -- > With best regards > > Michael Stauber<Bildschirmfoto vom 2023-10-22 > 06-08-33.png>_______________________________________________ > Blueonyx mailing list > Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it > http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx
