1 Topic by iRedDale (edited by iRedDale 2024-04-04 03:38:29)

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Topic: Sollved - Client (Thunderbird) setup errors

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This is an issue on the client side -- SOGo webmail seems to work fine, but the only hit I get searching for this is a 12 year old Thunderbird bug closed 10 years ago about chat names...

On setup in thunderbird I get this error.

I have both autoconfig and _autodiscover._tcp DNS records setup.

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2 Reply by Cthulhu (edited by Cthulhu 2024-04-04 03:40:38)

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Re: Sollved - Client (Thunderbird) setup errors

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration

(not yet implemented), define a DNS TXT record on domain example.net (for my.account@example.net) which contains an URL like e.g. https://www.example.net/mozilla.xml , which also returns this file format. A similar, but slightly different proposal is described in detail on DNSBasedLookup.
and/or (not yet implemented) use DNS SRV records _imap._tcp.example.com etc. (Problem: Doesn't provide username form etc..)

If you want to use autodiscover(outlook) or autoconfig(thunderbird), it is based on an XML textfile which needs to be served by a hosted subdomain, this is not implemented by default and no feature of iredmail

you can implement it on your own if you wish, there are plenty open available scripts that handle this very well

just an example (with configuration guide for nginx)

https://github.com/hmlkao/php-autodiscover

I myself use this (but moderately modified with dynamically served enabled mail domains with mysql backend):

https://github.com/tamisoft/MailClientA … ree/master

Don't know about a nginx implementation, though, never used it

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Re: Sollved - Client (Thunderbird) setup errors

I'm using "mail" as the host name -- not sure that the extra DNS records even came into play as Thunderbird finds the common hostname from the domain in the supplied email address and probes for ports and services and whatnot.

Whatever that error is, it's fixed by deleting the account that thunderbird adds when this happens.

Once it's deleted, trying again seems to be the appropriate fix.




Cthulhu wrote:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration

(not yet implemented), define a DNS TXT record on domain example.net (for my.account@example.net) which contains an URL like e.g. https://www.example.net/mozilla.xml , which also returns this file format. A similar, but slightly different proposal is described in detail on DNSBasedLookup.
and/or (not yet implemented) use DNS SRV records _imap._tcp.example.com etc. (Problem: Doesn't provide username form etc..)

If you want to use autodiscover(outlook) or autoconfig(thunderbird), it is based on an XML textfile which needs to be served by a hosted subdomain, this is not implemented by default and no feature of iredmail

you can implement it on your own if you wish, there are plenty open available scripts that handle this very well

just an example (with configuration guide for nginx)

https://github.com/hmlkao/php-autodiscover