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I have a mail server: postfix; dovecot; mysql; ssl cert.
That is work. But, how to configure my MAILSERVER so that MAIL CLIENTS (thunderbird, apple mail, outlook) can automatically find settings ?

Piduna Valeriu
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    Does this answer your question? [How to configure email autoconfiguration for a domain?](https://serverfault.com/questions/172326/how-to-configure-email-autoconfiguration-for-a-domain) – xenoterracide Aug 19 '21 at 20:20

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Yes ,its find only domain name not FQDN, but when you setup email,account on thunderbird , thunderbird find only domain name then you can setup manual with FQDN " mail.test.com" incoming and outgoing both.

mohit singh
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In short - you can't.

Some clients will try to guess settings, they are not so very complex. GoogleMail client for Android need only hostname and user's credentials to set up connections. Thunderbird acts very similar.

But you can't give a hint to the mail client in any way, as far as it wasn't implemented by SMTP/POP/IMAP protocols.

Kondybas
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This is not a matter of mail server configuration.

You could add specific SRV records to your DNS zone, that may be parsed by the email client :

_imap._tcp        SRV       0 0 143 imap.example.net.
_imaps._tcp       SRV       0 0 993 imap.example.net.
_submission._tcp  SRV       0 0 587 smtp.example.net.

Here, "143" is the imap port you use, "imap.example.net" your imap server, and quite the same for smtp. You can also add pop3 and pop3s record if you still use it.

Some clients may also make a request using information from another DNS record "_autodiscover.tcp.example.net", so you could also add this record, and configure a web server to answer to this xml request. This is detailed in https://web.archive.org/web/20150817115525/http://moens.ch:80/2012/05/31/providing-email-client-autoconfiguration-information/, and there is a Github project that provide the php script and configuration : https://github.com/gronke/email-autodiscover

Grubshka
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Mail clients sometimes guess hostnames, so if you name your hostname "mail" or "imap" it will probably work in most mail clients.

For thunderbird (only) there is a spec that Mozilla made up and never caught on, which you can set up, called autoconfiguration which will tell thunderbird clients where the mail server is.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration

mike nelson
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