Module autoconfig

Account discovery

This module contains everything needed to discover account configuration from a simple email address, heavily inspired by the Thunderbird Autoconfiguration standard.

NOTE: only IMAP and SMTP configurations can be discovered by this module.

Discovery performs actions in this order:

• Check ISP databases for example.com
  • Check main ISP <autoconfig.example.com>
  • Check alt ISP <example.com/.well-known>
  • Check Thunderbird ISPDB <autoconfig.thunderbird.net/example.com>
• Check example.com DNS records
  • If example2.com found in example.com MX records
    • Check ISP databases for example2.com
    • Check for mailconf URI in example2.com TXT records
  • Check mailconf URI in example.com TXT records
  • Build autoconfig from imap and submission example.com SRV records

Modules

config

Account configuration discovery

dns

Account DNS discovery

Enums

Error

The global Error enum of the module.

Functions

from_addr

Discover configuration associated to a given email address using ISP locations then DNS, as described in the Mozilla wiki.

get_config

Send a GET request to the given URI and try to parse response as autoconfig.

Type Aliases

Result

The global Result alias of the module.