[Users] how does the email auto-configure work

[Ricardo Mones]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 20:43:33 +0100
Frank Dietrich <bits_n_bytes at gmx.de> wrote:
[…]
> As far as I understand the main part of this configuration is done in
> auto_configure_service_sync(...). But how could/should this lead at the
> end in the settings provided by url [3]?
[…]
> [3] https://autoconfig.posteo.de/mail/config-v1.1.xml

This is a different (and unsupported) configuration mechanism which seems to
have originated within Thunderbird:

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

regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  RTFM - "Read The Manual" (The 'F' is silent). Usually a very good 
  idea.                                             Bjarne Stroustrup

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