email: autoconfig for autoconfiguration (example: via thunderbird)

[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.

[AartJansen]

oh that might be my problem, none of my apps are in the bare domain. I'll add one and retest

EDIT: Tests fine now, thanks!