As many others, we will migrate to DA from cPanel and there are some functions from cPanel that we want to bring to DA.
One of these are autoconfig support for Thunderbird et.al.
Our solution is based on the information given by the mozilla wiki, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration.
There are different solutions described there, most use autoconfig.foo.com, but for us it is more convientent to use the base domain name:
It works with TB do not know about other email clients, only tested with TB.
Hence there are two alternatives to implement this, either directly in the users home directory, as part of the default skeleton, or as an alias. We chosen the latter.
and put in one of the below:
TLS:
SSL:
replace "hostingco" with your company url or any text.
Create the alias with custombuild.
I have tested this with TB, and it works. Other email imap clients I dont know. MS Outlook uses autodiscover, will publish an article about that as well.
Btw, the image verification is a real pita.
One of these are autoconfig support for Thunderbird et.al.
Our solution is based on the information given by the mozilla wiki, https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration.
There are different solutions described there, most use autoconfig.foo.com, but for us it is more convientent to use the base domain name:
Code:
http://example.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xmlIt works with TB do not know about other email clients, only tested with TB.
Hence there are two alternatives to implement this, either directly in the users home directory, as part of the default skeleton, or as an alias. We chosen the latter.
Code:
mkdir -p /var/www/html/.well-known/autoconfig/mail
vi /var/www/html/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xmland put in one of the below:
TLS:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<clientConfig version="1.1">
<emailProvider id="hostingco">
<domain>%EMAILDOMAIN%</domain>
<displayName>%EMAILDOMAIN%</displayName>
<displayShortName>%EMAILDOMAIN%</displayShortName>
<incomingServer type="imap">
<hostname>mail.%EMAILDOMAIN%</hostname>
<port>143</port>
<socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
<authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
<username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
</incomingServer>
<outgoingServer type="smtp">
<hostname>mail.%EMAILDOMAIN%</hostname>
<port>587</port>
<socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
<authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
<username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
</outgoingServer>
</emailProvider>
</clientConfig>SSL:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<clientConfig version="1.1">
<emailProvider id="hostingco">
<domain>%EMAILDOMAIN%</domain>
<displayName>%EMAILDOMAIN%</displayName>
<displayShortName>%EMAILDOMAIN%</displayShortName>
<incomingServer type="imap">
<hostname>mail.%EMAILDOMAIN%</hostname>
<port>993</port>
<socketType>SSL</socketType>
<authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
<username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
</incomingServer>
<outgoingServer type="smtp">
<hostname>mail.%EMAILDOMAIN%</hostname>
<port>465</port>
<socketType>SSL</socketType>
<authentication>password-cleartext</authentication>
<username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
</outgoingServer>
</emailProvider>
</clientConfig>replace "hostingco" with your company url or any text.
Create the alias with custombuild.
Code:
cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
echo "well-known/autoconfig=.well-known/autoconfig” >> custom/webapps.list
./build rewrite_confsI have tested this with TB, and it works. Other email imap clients I dont know. MS Outlook uses autodiscover, will publish an article about that as well.
Btw, the image verification is a real pita.
