[Users] "auto configure"

[Christian Hesse]

Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> on Fri, 2014/06/27 12:25:
> I do not know if I am doing something wrong, or what, so I thought I would
> ask
> 
> I am using claws-mail-3.10.1 on a FreeBSD-10 / amd64 system. Everything
> seems to work fine. I have five different accounts, "gmail", "outlook"
> "yahoo" and two other business ISP accounts. Now, I can configure them all
> manually and they work fine. The question I have is exactly what is the
> auto configure suppose to do? Every time I have tried it, it pops up a
> "failed" notice. It does not make any difference which account I try it on.
> 
> I am not sure if this only happens on my system, or if I am doing something
> wrong. Perhaps I am missing a dependency that I am not aware of. Claws-mail
> was installed via the FreeBSD ports system.

Hello!

Claws-Mail supports auto configuration via RFC 6186 [0]. So your ISP needs to
support this. Basically it is just setting some records in DNS. Your can try
manually:

% dig +short SRV _submission._tcp.gmail.com
5 0 587 smtp.gmail.com.

[0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6186

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