[Dovecot] dovecot and avahi

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

* Robert Moskowitz <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> 
> On 01/01/2013 01:39 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> >* Tom Hendrikx <dovecot at dovecot.org>:
> >>On 01-01-13 18:01, Ben Morrow wrote:
> >>>At  5PM +0100 on  1/01/13 you (Tom Hendrikx) wrote:
> >>>>If you want to advertise your mail config for easy setup over the
> >>>>internet, take a look at: http://www.automx.org/
> >>>I thought most gooey mail clients supported RFC 6186 nowadays?
> >>>
> >>>Ben
> >>>
> >>As you can see from their docs, it supports a lot more than what you can
> >>put in SRV DNS records AFAIK. I don't use either of the solutions
> >>actively, and don't support any client setups so I don't really know
> >>what is currently available in clients, and needed or superior on server
> >>side.
> >automx combines Mozillas autoconfig service and Microsofts autodiscover
> >service in one tool. With automx you can provision SMTP/POP/IMAP and
> >ActiveSync account settings (but not the services themselves).
> >
> >Microsoft Outlook 2007+, Thunderbird 3+, Microsoft Mobiles and other mobiles
> >known to support ActiveSync can make use of the automx webservice.
> >
> >Apple products do not support either MS' or MZ's provisioning services. AFAIK
> >the only way to configure these clients is to store an XML file at a dedicated
> >location in advance, use the Apple Configurator or go the real hard way and
> >use Mobile Device Management (MDM) services.
> >
> >The aforementioned RFC 6186 has shortcommings compared to
> >autodiscover/autoconfig-services: You can tell the service location (URI) and
> >port, but you can't specify transport policies (plaintext, SSL, STARTTLS),
> >authentication mechanisms etc. I would not want to use it in a business
> >environment.
> 
> thank you very much for this analysis. SRV records were only
> intented to find the services that would then set up the policies.
> There is considerable pushback on using DNS for a general purpose
> database.  I had to fight for my HIP DNS RRs for holding just Host
> Identities.
> 
> I see that it can use SQL for some information handling.  Does it
> work with the sql tables managed by postfixadmin?

We - Christian and I - haven't tried, but I am sure it will, because you are
free to define any SQL query you want in automx to get what you want from
postfixadmin.

You may also use Modoboa to manage the mailboxes. Antoine just ran a blog
article on using automx with it:
<http://modoboa.org/en/weblog/2012/12/16/make-users-life-easier-with-automx/>

p at rick




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