[BlueOnyx:26553] Re: Dovecot Aliases for email username?

[Taco Scargo]

Hi Michael,

Isn’t the password in the response based on the password that was entered by the user itself?
If I can find some time, I will give it a try.

Kind regards,

Taco

> On 22 Oct 2023, at 13:15, Michael Stauber via Blueonyx <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi Taco,
> 
>> I believe part of the solution is also setting the zones
> > for the e-mail domain up with specific SRV records, pointing
> > to a web service that outputs an XML with e-mail server
> > configuration.
> >
>> I never looked into this very thoroughly, but maybe the
> > XML file can also contain the right username (format).
> 
> Yeah, Chris Gebhard pointed this out to me recently and somehow I wasn't even aware that this feature exists. So I looked it up and it is pretty neat.
> 
> It seems to work like this:
> 
> CNAME DNS record autodiscover.Vsite.com points to autodiscover.emailprovider.com
> 
> SRV Record autodiscover.emailprovider.com has something like this in it:
> 
> Record Type: SRV
> Service: _autodiscover
> Protocol: _tcp
> Port: 443 (or the appropriate port for secure connections)
> Priority: 10 (or another priority value)
> Weight: 0 (or another weight value)
> Target: autodiscover.emailprovider.com
> 
> And that tells the Email client to connect to ...
> 
> https://autodiscover.emailprovider.com:443
> 
> ... where it gets a JSON (or XML) file with the information it needs. That info could look like this if it were presented in JSON:
> 
> {
>  "EmailAddress": "user at example.com",
>  "IncomingServer": {
>    "Type": "IMAP",
>    "Hostname": "imap.emailprovider.com",
>    "Port": 993,
>    "Encryption": "SSL/TLS"
>  },
>  "OutgoingServer": {
>    "Hostname": "smtp.emailprovider.com",
>    "Port": 587,
>    "Encryption": "STARTTLS"
>  },
>  "Username": "user",
>  "Password": "password",
>  "Authentication": "Basic",
>  "DisplayName": "User Name"
> }
> 
> Naturally we won't and can't serve "Username" and "Password" out this way, but the above shows that the general mechanism allows it. So in the end the user would need to enter the password himself, but the rest would auto-configure.
> 
> The way I would integrate this is probably have the SRV point to https://autodiscover.emailprovider.com:81/ and let the GUI create a JSON file with the correct info on the fly.
> 
> I have this pretty high on my list of future features for BlueOnyx. But right now it's about 1-2 items behind "new and modernized GUI template". Work on that is currently going full swing.
> 
> Here is an image of an early prototype mock-up of the general look and feel. The mobile version also looks pretty neat and has actual usability to compared to what we currently have.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
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