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For our customer (an Email Service Provider) we are trying to find out if (and to what extent) Mac Mail supports Server Autodiscovery (just the way Outlook 2007 and 2010 (for Windows) do it, see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124251.aspx).
The goal is that the User only has to enter his/her email address, and the SMTP/POP3 host/port are automagically configured in Mac Mail.
We know that Mac Mail does read our customer's autodiscover.xml (see Microsoft's definition of the autodiscovery-process in the link above) and supports a certain subset of the aforementioned "autodiscovery protocol" in order to support Exchange servers --- but is this also possible for SMTP and POP3 servers?
In our tests we could not get Mac Mail to autoconfigure itself using an autodiscover.xml file which works perfectly well for Outlook 2007 (and our SMTP and POP3 servers).
We also found out, that Mac Mail seems to use a proprietary autodiscovery service implemented as a web service at https://mac-services.apple.com --- this one seems to be the reason why e.g. "[email protected]" will configure Mac Mail to use the pop3.live.com server.
Does anyone know of a way for a small Email Service Provider to become one of those supported providers?
Thanks for any information,
heli

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[Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:55:20 -0700] <Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/requestschema /2006"><Request><EMailAddress>[email protected]</EMailAddress><AcceptableResponse Schema>http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/responseschema/2006a</AcceptableResponseSchema></Request></Autodiscover>
[Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:57:06 -0700]
[Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:59:47 -0700] - RECEIVED - <Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/requestschema /2006"><Request><EMailAddress>[email protected]</EMailAddress><AcceptableResponseSche ma>http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/responseschema/2006a</AcceptableResponseSchema></Request></Autodiscover>
[Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:59:47 -0700] - RESPONSE - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/responseschema/2006">
<Response xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/responseschem a/2006a">
<Account>
<AccountType>email</AccountType>
<Action>settings</Action>
<Protocol>
<Type>POP3</Type>
<Server>mail.vcn.com</Server>
<Port>110</Port>
<LoginName>[email protected]</LoginName>
<DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
<SPA>off</SPA>
<SSL>off</SSL>
<AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
</Protocol>
<Protocol>
<Type>IMAP</Type>
<Server>mail.vcn.com</Server>
<Port>143</Port>
<LoginName>[email protected]</LoginName>
<DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
<SPA>off</SPA>
<SSL>off</SSL>
<AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
</Protocol>
<Protocol>
<Type>SMTP</Type>
<Server>smtp.vcn.com</Server>
<Port>465</Port>
<LoginName>[email protected]</LoginName>
<DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
<SPA>off</SPA>
<SSL>on</SSL>
<AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
<UsePOPAuth>on</UsePOPAuth>
<SMTPLast>on</SMTPLast>
</Protocol>
</Account>
</Response>
</Autodiscover>
but mail forces me to put in settings manually, even though it should have just been handed the settings on a silver platter.
does this not work with non-exchange servers?

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