--On Tuesday, January 05, 2010 18:49 +0000 Tony Finch
<[email protected]> wrote:
>...
> To step back a bit, perhaps it would be easier to solve all
> these problems by defining a simple (XML?) configuration
> document which an MUA could download. This suggestion is not a
> million miles from the autodiscover support in Microsoft
> Outlook 2007, except that its protocol is a disgusting series
> of hacks which is best used as an example of how not to do it.
> http://fanf.livejournal.com/95018.html
>
> I wonder if NAPTR would be useful part of a clean autodiscover
> protocol, instead of SRV.
There is, of course, always ACAP (or perhaps offspring-of-ACAP
that used an XML config file)... assuming you can figure out how
to find that server :-(.
