Autodiscover
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| autodiscover logo | |
| Maintainer | Unnilennium |
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| Url | https://wiki.koozali.org/Autodiscover |
| Licence | GPL |
| Category | |
| Tags | autodiscover, Email, POP3, POP3S, IMAP, IMAPS, SMTP, autoconfig, config-v1.1.xml |
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Description
This contribs will deploy Microsoft Autodiscover and Mozilla autoconfig to configure your IMAP POP and SMTP accoutn to your mails clients. Plan is to also support creation of apple configuration file in the future.
Installation
prerequisite you need a valide SSL certificate, redirection might fails if https uses a non valid certificate, try Letsencrypt
yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-autodiscover
Configuration
Client Side
Mozilla compatible products
Thunderbird, Evolution and any software compatible with the Mozilla Thunderbird .well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml config file will work by just filling your email and password.
Outlook before 2016
Will also work out of the box by just filling your email and password.
Outlook 2016
Out of the box, it does not support IMAP POP3 and SMTP autodiscover, but only exchange type server. There are two methods you can use to workaround that. First is using the old style outlook profile configurator
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OLCFG.EXE
then button email accounts or
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\OLCFG.EXE
then button email accounts
Second would be to force Outlook to use old detection configuration by manipulating Registry, as a priviledged user run in a windows shell:
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\setup /T REG_DWORD /F /V DisableOffice365SimplifiedAccountCreation /D 1"
Outlook 2019
Out of the box, it does not support IMAP POP3 and SMTP autodiscover, but only exchange type server. You will need to enable old Outlook 2016 accounts. see : https://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Outlook_365_.2F_Outlook_2019_IMAP_Configuration
alternatively the Outlook 2016 should work
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office19\OLCFG.EXE
then button email accounts or
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office19\OLCFG.EXE
then button email accounts
Second would be to force Outlook to use old detection configuration by manipulating Registry, as a priviledged user run in a windows shell:
reg add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Office\19.0\Outlook\setup /T REG_DWORD /F /V DisableOffice365SimplifiedAccountCreation /D 1"
Outlook 365
Need testing,, does not support IMAP POP3 and SMTP autodiscover. Only exchange type server.
Outlook for Android
Need testing, but mostly work as Outlook 365.
Apple products
see bug https://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12100
DNS SRV Record alternate method
smtp
_smtp._tcp SRV 0 1 25 mail.example.com.
smtps
_smtps._tcp SRV 0 1 465 mail.example.com.
submission (not in use on SME)
_submission._tcp SRV 0 1 587 mail.example.com.
imap
_imap._tcp SRV 0 1 143 imap.example.com. _imaps._tcp SRV 0 1 993 imap.example.com.
pop3
_pop3._tcp SRV 0 1 110 pop3.example.com. _pop3s._tcp SRV 0 1 995 pop3.example.com.
caldav with or without TLS , could use a TXT field too, if no txt value is present then client will check /.well-known/caldav
_caldav._tcp SRV 0 1 80 calendar.example.com. _caldavs._tcp SRV 0 1 443 calendar.example.com. _caldav._tcp TXT path=/caldav _caldavs._tcp TXT path=/caldav
cardav , could use a TXT field too, if no txt value is present then client will check /.well-known/cardav
_cardav._tcp SRV 0 1 80 calendar.example.com. _cardavs._tcp SRV 0 1 443 calendar.example.com. _cardav._tcp TXT path=/caldav _cardavs._tcp TXT path=/caldav
DNS and file for MTA-STS and TLS-RPT
as you are there you can inform the worl you use along side with DKIM, SPF and DMARC properly configured this. See
create a subdomain mta-sts.yourdomain.com , make it point to your server, and set Let's Encrypt to create a certificate for it
fill the content of the file /home/e-smith/files/ibays/Primary/.well-known/mta-sts.txt with
version: STSv1
mode: testing
mx: yourdomain.com
max_age: 604800
fill the following records at your dns. (fill the id field with current timestamp, and update the domain/ email to your needs)
_smtp._tls.yourdomain.com. 900 IN TXT "v=TLSRPTv1; rua=mailto:admin@yourdomain.com"
_mta-sts.yourdomain.com. 900 IN TXT "v=STSv1; id=1575556993"
DNS and BIMI Record
add a picture as svg accessible with your web srver, be sure DMARC fields are ok. and then file the DNS field, with the correct URL. You might need to check if your SVG is compatible
default._bimi IN TXT "v=BIMI1; l=https://yourdomain.com/images/Logo.svg"
you might also obtain a certificate for your logo after having validate your ownership see: Verified Mark Certificates (VMC). As of 2023 this is a paid certificate for about 1500 USD a year, after registering for your trademark. So this will be kept out of scope of this page for the moment
- https://authindicators.github.io/rfc-brand-indicators-for-message-identification/
- https://mxtoolbox.com/dmarc/bimi/how-to-create-bimi-record
- https://bimigroup.org/using-the-rnc-schema-to-validate-bimi-svg-images/
DNS DKIM /SPF and DMARC
see Email#DKIM Setup - qpsmtpd version .3E.3D 0.96
DNS CNAME Record
having a CNAME for autodiscover pointing to your server could help but is not mandatory.
Server Side
you can list the available configuration with the following command :
config show autodiscover
Some of the properties are not shown, but are defaulted in a template or a script. Here a more comprehensive list with default and expected values :
| property | default | values | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DocURL | string | url on your server without the domain, to point to your local documentation about your mail service for Thunderbird like configurations. | |
| access | private | private, public | |
| status | enabled | enabled,disabled |
Uninstall
yum remove smeserver-autodiscover
Bugs
Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla
and select the smeserver-autodiscover component or use this link
Below is an overview of the current issues for this contrib:
| ID | Product | Version | Status | Summary (2 tasks) ⇒ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12104 | SME Contribs | 10.0 | CONFIRMED | NFR: support autodiscover v2 with json file |
| 12100 | SME Contribs | 10.0 | CONFIRMED | NFR: apple mail autoconfig |
Changelog
Only released version in smecontrib are listed here.
- initial release [SME: 10842]
Sources
Microsoft clients
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/exchange-server-2007-technical-articles/bb332063(v=exchg.80)?redirectedfrom=MSDN#SupportedScenariosConnecting
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/exchange-web-services/autodiscover-for-exchange#options-for-using-autodiscover
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/client-developer/web-service-reference/soap-autodiscover-web-service-reference-for-exchange?redirectedfrom=MSDN
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/exchange_server_protocols/ms-oxdscli/48d23e06-f884-44b5-993e-75b7a115827c
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/outlook-2016-implementation-of-autodiscover-0d7b2709-958a-7249-1c87-434d257b9087
- https://admx.help/HKCU/software/policies/microsoft/office/16.0/outlook/setup
- https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/autodiscoverconfiguration.htm
Multiple configuration
- https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/data/web/autodiscover-json.php
- https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/data/web/inc/vars.inc.php
- https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/autodiscover-mail-settings-outlook/108570
- https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/issues/615 (trouble with Outlook 2016)
- https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/data/web/autodiscover.php
- https://github.com/gronke/email-autodiscover/blob/master/mail/autodiscover.xml
- https://mcmilk.de/projects/autoconfig/ (MS TB and Apple)
- https://roll.urown.net/server/mail/autoconfig.html
- https://github.com/smartlyway/email-autoconfig-php
about new MS json file
- https://blog.icewolf.ch/archive/2020/12/09/autodiscover-v2-json-requests.aspx (TODO create this file)
- https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/blob/master/data/web/autodiscover-json.php
- https://www.msxfaq.de/exchange/autodiscover/autodiscover_v2.htm
- https://github.com/gronke/email-autodiscover/blob/master/settings.json.sample
- https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/pull/636
about Mozilla
generic