On Thu Feb 16 09:20:44 2012, Adrien de Croy wrote:
SMTP: specification of server, choice of authentication method, choice of security (SSL vs STARTTLS vs none), username and password. IMAP: specification of server, choice of authentication method, choice of security (SSL vs STARTTLS vs none), username and password. LDAP: specification of server(s), choice of authentication method, choice of security (SSL vs STARTTLS vs none), username and password.
Well, of course, I'd argue that you could use a combination of SRV, common options, discovery, and ACAP to fix all that.
The problem with Thunderbird isn't that it has all these options, it's that it requires the user to enter them, and fails to do discovery properly - Tony Finch wrote a particularly good blog post on why it's so awful several years ago, and provided solutions, too.
Interestingly, XMPP has generally gone the discovery route, and the result is that you only enter a jid and a password.
For Polymer, you enter a username, ACAP server, and password - ACAP doesn't have the SRV option, and maybe I should just add that in - not that anyone but me cares anymore.
Having written multiprotocol clients, I just don't think they're as hard as people make them out to be.
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