email: autoconfig for autoconfiguration (example: via thunderbird)

[girish]

I have put instructions how to setup autoconfig for Thunderbird and Outlook here - https://cloudron.io/documentation/email/#autodiscover . I tested Thunderbird and that works well. I couldn't test Outlook because it seems old Outlook is not downloadable anymore and Outlook 365 uses some undocumented autodiscover.json method these days.

[valkalon]

Awesome Girish thanks a lot !

[subven]

Very nice to see this finally beeing resolved and documentated. Thank you a lot @valkalon and @girish

[hakunamatata]

Hello, I have followed the instructions in the cloudron documentation and successfully set up autoconfig for my primary domain (domain1.com). Thanks for that!

I am also hosting other domains (domain2.com, domain3.com), on my cloudron server and was wondering how I could set autoconfig for them as well.

Do I create a similar config-v1.1.xml files on autoconfig.domain2.com, autoconfig.domain3.com etc or can I somehow edit the autoconfig.domain1.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml to include the additional domains?

[robi]

@hakunamatata they would be separate. Hence the use of the first method may be better for a multi-domain setup.

[robi]

This looks like it should simply be a checkbox in the UI, and Cloudron manages the ~yellowtent/boxdata/well-known/<domains> hierarchy.

Was that the plan @staff ?

[girish]

@hakunamatata said in email: autoconfig for autoconfiguration (example: via thunderbird):

Do I create a similar config-v1.1.xml files on autoconfig.domain2.com, autoconfig.domain3.com etc or can I somehow edit the autoconfig.domain1.com/mail/config-v1.1.xml to include the additional domains?

My understanding is that you have to create separate configs i.e your former suggestion. After all, there is no way of knowing domain2's autoconfig is in domain1.

[girish]

@robi said in email: autoconfig for autoconfiguration (example: via thunderbird):

This looks like it should simply be a checkbox in the UI, and Cloudron manages the ~yellowtent/boxdata/well-known/<domains> hierarchy.

Yes, correct. Except I broke this because I completely forgot about autoconfig well known support and only implemented mastodon and matrix Will get it fixed for 6.1.2.

[girish]

@hakunamatata I have automated the mail autoconfig for all domains. It's part of 6.1.2. Should be out next week.

https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/ef68cb70c07f2abd524879aef70930b572f48917

[jdaviescoates]

@girish great stuff, thanks!

[hakunamatata]

Super! Thanks everyone!

[hakunamatata]

@girish my server updated to 6.1.2 last night and the autoconfig doesn't seem to be working. /home/yellowtent/boxdata/well-known/ is empty.

[girish]

@hakunamatata yes, it's migrated to the database now. The email auto configuration is also automatic. You can find settings in domains -> advanced

[hakunamatata]

@girish I have an app installed on the bare domain as per the docs, however autoconfig is still not working on my end.

Is there supposed to be a setting that I need to enable in domains > advanced ? Because I don't see anything related to this in the settings.

[girish]

@hakunamatata Can you try this curl -v https://domain.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml. If that returns a 404, can you go the bare domain app's Location view and click save (no need to make any changes) and then run the curl again?

[hakunamatata]

@girish said in email: autoconfig for autoconfiguration (example: via thunderbird):

curl -v https://domain.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml

That seems to have done the trick. Thanks!

[girish]

@hakunamatata Ah, I had put that "note" in https://docs.cloudron.io/domains/#matrix-server-location but forgot to put the same note for email configuration. Will do so, thanks.

[AartJansen]

I realize this is an old thread, but is the autodiscover meant to "just work" for thunderbird ? I just tried it and it "failed to find the settings for your email account"
This was over the LAN. I just tried it over the internet, withthe same result.
I also ran the curl command on both clients, and it reported "not found" no such route.
I clicked the sync DNS, and waited for a while and tried again with the same result.

[nebulon]

Is the main domain (for example domain.com, when your Cloudron runs on my.domain.com) pointing to your Cloudron also and is served up correctly?

See https://docs.cloudron.io/email/#autodiscover

[girish]

I quickly re-tested this in my thunderbird. As @nebulon said, you must have an app in the email domain for this to work.