Version: (using KDE KDE 3.1.2) Installed from: Gentoo Packages Hi, have you ever seen a non technical human configuring his/her email account. It is \ awfull for them, all those server names and ports and protocolls. Well following idea: what about writing a wizard for kmail gathering all those infos \ automatically needing only the email address and a online database which needs to \ be hosted somewhere (and thats why I'm writing here and not coding already ;) The user needs to type in his/her email Adress, the @domain.tld part will be sent to \ a webinterface, say kmail.kde.org/kmailconf.php?email=@domain.tld The @domain.tld should be enough to figure out the pop3 / imap names of the provider. \ The IP Adress of the client querrying should be enough to figure out the provider \ used and that gives the smtp host name. Well username and password still needs to be given by the user but they known this \ process better than filling in servernames. Afterwards a automatically sent and \ fetched testmail to report success / failure. The main problem is the database, but I had following idea: let the users feed the \ database with working configurations! The next kmail release could come with the \ bid to do so, popup on first start, auto-send-in via webinterface, say \ kmail.kde.org/kmailconfin.php?email=@domain.tld&pop3=...&imap=...&smtp=... I think this would be a great feature to make "linux" even more "userfriendly" Problems, Cons, Pros, can the server handle this? greetings roland lezuo <roland.lezuo@chello.at>
Alternately a autoconfiguration URL could be used. or quick test the "default" mail server names (pop.domain.com, mail.domain.com, smtp.domain.com)for POP3 & SMTP access. or simply querry the DNS Server for MX records for the domain your email address is listed for and get the SMTP servers.
*** Bug 89449 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
www.mail2web.com is using a similar thing successfully for year. One needs to type only their e-mail address and password. Mail server will be found from DNS MX record for the domain part of e-mail address. It is assumed that POP3 and SMTP server are the same machine, if that is good enough for thousands of mail2web.com users, then why not KMail? Or at least KMail could first try to connect and if that fails show the full configuration dialog.
Hi, long time has gone, but finally kmail has an configuration wizard... be patient for 3.5 Ciao, Tobias