On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > Thunderbird running locally on my machine will auto configure the > mail servers when I supply the email address for the account I want > to define in Thunderbird, so I was querying if Evolution can do the > same thing? regards, Steve
There's a variety of ways that can be done with mail clients, I knew of these three: It can make guesses about mail server names based on the domain name of the email address you're setting up. Evolution did not appear to do this when I tried just now. It can poll a well-known address associated with the domain name of the email address, for a config file. I recall Evolution did appear to support this method, I've done it in my own LAN, though it doesn't appear to be working when I've just double-checked now. But I may have mangled something in my network at the moment. It can poll a central configuration service which is populated with data about a plethora of mail services. This is a method that Thunderbird can use (they have their own configuration server, and Evolution will look at it). This is what /they/ say about it: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)Autoconfig.html And this suggests yet another scheme: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)AutoconfigSources.html In a nutshell, I'd say that's a sysadmin for your local computer system dropping a configuration file into the users homespace. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
