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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] [RFC] MUACL
From:       Mark Bucciarelli <mark () easymailings ! com>
Date:       2005-06-17 17:13:51
Message-ID: 20050617171351.GA1696 () rabbit
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On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:16:33AM +0200, Ingo Kl?cker wrote:

> On Friday 03 June 2005 22:34, Tobias Koenig wrote:
>
> > last week I had to configure a mail client for a friend of mine
> > and really hated it to search for all these information like pop3
> > server, smtp server, with or without SSL/TLS, port numbers etc. etc.
> > from the web.
>
> Isn't there some standard DNS based way to get most of this
> information?

Given an e-mail address you can look up the mail server.

Given the mail server, you can query on the usual pop and imap ports and
should be able to discover what it supports.  Kmail already has code
that does the discovery ("Check what server supports" button).

m

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