On Wed, 2025-03-26 at 09:08 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Thunderbird running locally on my machine will auto configure the mail servers when I supply the email address for the account I want to define in Thunderbird, so I was querying if Evolution can do the same thing? regards, Steve
There's a variety of ways that can be done with mail clients, I knew of these three:
It can make guesses about mail server names based on the domain name of the email address you're setting up. Evolution did not appear to do this when I tried just now.
It can poll a well-known address associated with the domain name of the email address, for a config file. I recall Evolution did appear to support this method, I've done it in my own LAN, though it doesn't appear to be working when I've just double-checked now. But I may have mangled something in my network at the moment.
It can poll a central configuration service which is populated with data about a plethora of mail services. This is a method that Thunderbird can use (they have their own configuration server, and Evolution will look at it).
This is what /they/ say about it: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)Autoconfig.html
And this suggests yet another scheme: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps(2f)Evolution(2f)AutoconfigSources.html
In a nutshell, I'd say that's a sysadmin for your local computer system dropping a configuration file into the users homespace.