thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android
Autoconfig mechanism K-9 does not pass the email address
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Description
I was looking into this and found:
Thunderbird's Autoconfig mechanism has now been available in K-9 Mail 6.7xx beta versions for a while.
Originally posted by @cketti in https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/issues/865#issuecomment-1798419231
Currently K9 ask server with "GET" http://autoconfig.example.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml which is incorrect. It should ask with "emailaddress=mail@example.com" as parameter according to Mozilla Guidelines: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration
Related issue: https://github.com/rseichter/automx2/issues/27
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Research direction
Begin at K-9 Mail's Autoconfig mechanism and compare its request with Mozilla's Thunderbird Autoconfiguration guidelines. Done means the request includes the emailaddress parameter rather than sending only the base config-v1.1.xml URL; the related automx2 issue is available for context.
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- kotlin
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- mobile
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- Bug
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