Mozilla's automatic configuration format for email services as used in Mozilla Thunderbird.
Questions tagged [autoconfiguration]
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How to configure postfix and dovecot so that thunderbird can automatically find settings
Our mailserver is a Ubuntu Server box with a Postfix/Dovecot combination. We enabled starttls with a correct certificate and everything is working ok.
A lot of our users are using Thunderbird for retrieving mail with IMAP. Thunderbird tries to guess…
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How to setup auto-configure email for Android Mail app on your server?
I work for a local ISP, Web and Email Hosting provider. I've been able to setup autoconfig/autodiscover and .mobileconfig for Thunderbird, Outlook, and IOS, respectively. This covers most of our user-base, except for beloved Android. It's tested.…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 w/ IIS 7.5 w/ Autodiscover.xml, but SAN-Certificate causes "Target Principle name is incorrect"
Outlook 365 finds the account through autodiscover without any problems, but warns about "Target Principle name is incorrect" (CN=eposthub.de), when adding an account like anything@nabil-redmann.de
As I understand, the newest Outlook versions…
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Autoconfig and Autodiscover records added, Mail Apps still not discovering configuration
I have setup autodiscover and autoconfig configuration over my linux server
Auto Discover
Auto Config
by following this Tutorial
but my mailing apps are still not getting the configuration automatically. I have to configure it manually while adding…
Saurabh Sharma
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thunderbird.cfg trust ca root certificate
We have just started using Thunderbird autoconfiguration and find it really useful for automatically creating the company standard imap, smtp and ldap accounts for every user that launches the mail client.
However, the company ldap server (actually,…
simlev
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Only one of multiple advertised IPv6 prefixes being used by Windows
The router for my local network advertises two IPv6 prefixes (one local, fdXX:: prefix, and one delegated from my ISP). I've confirmed that they're both being advertised by inspecting the router advertisements with Wireshark, thus:
However, Windows…
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OpenVPN: Push IP address/routes to client in non-TLS mode
I am trying to push IP address and routes from OpenVPN server to client.
I am using pre-shared static key as authentication mechanism.
Client is giving following error:
"Parameter --pull can only be specified in TLS-mode, i.e. where --tls-server or…
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Configure management tool to auto-configure by reading config file
The use-case is as given below:
The user has a Flat File in his Linux system. This file is a human readable/editable file which contains the configurations for all the needed components of his application running on the system. For example, the user…
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How does Thunderbird discover e-mail servers?
We are deploying some test e-mail servers with the subdomain mail (i.e., mail.example.com). Now, it seems that Thunderbird discovers that e-mail server when we are configuring e-mail.
How does Thunderbird accomplish this? I'm assuming it tries to…
Belmin Fernandez
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Windows Server 2012 DHCP not working sometimes
Currently on my network I have Windows Server 2012 setup with DNS, DHCP, and Squid Proxy. Most of the time when my clients connect to the network the DHCP server won't hand them an IP address, leaving them with an auto-configured address…
Gabe Zimbric
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Automating windows configuration
This is more a workstation question than server itself, but I believe is best suited in this site:
I want to automate Windows 10 Pro workstation configuration settings. I want to be able to automate installation of several tools into windows…
Miguel Mesquita Alfaiate
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