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well having fun on a bit scripting and new stuff... why not. but for testing I would need at least a @libo address ^^

Are you a TDF member? Then you have been offered one already :)

I'm a TDF member, but no, I never got an offer. I only got by mail following mail:

No mention on the possibility of a mail account (through I know that it is possible as it is documented in the wiki :-p)

Is something borked? No spam mail in my junk folder.

I poked Sophie, maybe the mail was lost or forgotten :)

Thanks! :)

first run: thunderbird. Mostly the easiest way. ;-)

Well if I understand the MDN pages (Section "Small company") correctly, the file should be located at
http://libreoffice.org/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml
and

All config files must be served as Content-Type: text/xml (or application/xml), otherwise the file will be ignored. Also, they must use charset UTF-8 (esp. if there are any non-ASCII-characters).

The file itself should (well somehow untested until now) look like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<clientConfig version="1.1">
  <emailProvider id="libreoffice.org">
    <domain>libreoffice.org</domain>
    <displayName>LibreOffice.org</displayName>
    <displayShortName>LibreOffice</displayShortName>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>993</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>143</port>
      <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>465</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>587</port>
      <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <documentation url="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/MailAccounts">
      <descr lang="de">Generische Einsetellungen und Rechtliches</descr>
      <descr lang="en">Generic settings and legal page</descr>
    </documentation>
    <documentation url="">
      <descr lang="de">Webmailer</descr>
      <descr lang="en">Webmailer</descr>
    </documentation>
    <documentation url="https://www.jpberlin.de/verwaltung/index.php?lang=en">
      <descr lang="de">Verwaltungskonsole zum Ändern des Passwortes und zum Einstellen von Serverseitige Emailfilterung</descr>
      <descr lang="en">Control Panel for changing password and installing serverside email filters</descr>
    </documentation>
  </emailProvider>
</clientConfig>

Moreover there is a webmailer part for the XML, but I don't think this is needed or useful in any kind. I also don't know how the user can get this part of information without looking in the xml file so skipping that.

Thanks for that!
Any chance you can test with a modified /etc/hosts locally before we put this live?

Yeah, I wanted to set up a local mediawiki for testing and thus I would need a xampp installation --> I will test it locally. maybe even today as I might find the time to do this. (/me is playing with the idea of reimplementing / updating http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:BrokenLinks so that we can check automatically for broken web links in out tdf wiki...)

:-)

File should be located at:
http://autoconfig.libreoffice.org/mail/config-v1.1.xml

It works like a sharm. Well maybe I will try the outlook stuff out as well... ;-)

new file (small modification in the SMTP auth)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<clientConfig version="1.1">
  <emailProvider id="libreoffice.org">
    <domain>libreoffice.org</domain>
    <displayName>LibreOffice.org</displayName>
    <displayShortName>LibreOffice</displayShortName>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>993</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <incomingServer type="imap">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>143</port>
      <socketType>STARTTLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </incomingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>465</port>
      <socketType>TLS</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <outgoingServer type="smtp">
      <hostname>mail.jpberlin.de</hostname>
      <port>465</port>
      <socketType>SSL</socketType>
      <authentication>password-encrypted</authentication>
      <username>%EMAILADDRESS%</username>
    </outgoingServer>
    <documentation url="https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/MailAccounts">
      <descr lang="de">Generische Einsetellungen und Rechtliches</descr>
      <descr lang="en">Generic settings and legal page</descr>
    </documentation>
    <documentation url="">
      <descr lang="de">Webmailer</descr>
      <descr lang="en">Webmailer</descr>
    </documentation>
    <documentation url="https://www.jpberlin.de/verwaltung/index.php?lang=en">
      <descr lang="de">Verwaltungskonsole zum Ändern des Passwortes und zum Einstellen von Serverseitige Emailfilterung</descr>
      <descr lang="en">Control Panel for changing password and installing serverside email filters</descr>
    </documentation>
  </emailProvider>
</clientConfig>

Assignee:

Thanks a lot for your work!
I propose we leave this as open task for one infra volunteer, as this is
a low-hanging fruit now and might help to get people in :)

Just FYI:

The Outlook part is mostly finished. I have to find a way so that the complete email address will be used. sadly that isn't that easy as MS do want to provide a dynamic XML (so per request generated) and thus I do need to figure out if there is a generic parameter which simply uses the given mail address like in mozillas way...

if the necessary parts of the email-address are passed as URL or post-request parameters or similar, then silverstripe can be used to create that xml on-the-fly

Christian Lohmaier wrote:

if the necessary parts of the email-address are passed as URL or post-request parameters or similar, then silverstripe can be used to create that xml on-the-fly

Yeah, we have to do something. Alternatively (to the silverstripe solution) I found a PHP script which does this already. See http://web.archive.org/web/20120828065248/http://moens.ch/2012/05/31/providing-email-client-autoconfiguration-information/ (search for the heading "Getting the user’s email address in the response XML")

OK, then I will test my existing configuration today and will post the preconfigurated XML file.

OK, that code works for Outlook (tested with win 8.1 and ms outlook 2013 with the registry test path)

replace dennisroczek@libreoffice.org with the email address which is in the request as described in that section http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc511507.aspx#AutodiscoverXMLSchema

Sadly there aren't many options for configuration. :-(

<?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/responseschema/2006a">
    <Account>
      <AccountType>email</AccountType>
      <Action>settings</Action>
      <!-- Image: Optional / Does anybody have a better JPG image? -->
      <Image>https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/b/b9/Facebook-five.jpg</Image>
      <ServiceHome>https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/MailAccounts</ServiceHome>
      <Protocol>
        <Type>IMAP</Type>
        <TTL>168</TTL>
        <Server>mail.jpberlin.de</Server>
        <Port>993</Port>
        <DomainName>libreoffice.org</DomainName>
        <LoginName>dennisroczek@libreoffice.org</LoginName>
        <DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
        <SPA>off</SPA>
        <SSL>on</SSL>
        <AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
      </Protocol>
      <Protocol>
        <Type>IMAP</Type>
        <TTL>168</TTL>
        <Server>mail.jpberlin.de</Server>
        <Port>143</Port>
        <DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
        <LoginName>dennisroczek@libreoffice.org</LoginName>
        <SPA>off</SPA>
        <AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
      </Protocol>      
      <Protocol>
        <Type>SMTP</Type>
        <TTL>168</TTL>
        <Server>mail.jpberlin.de</Server>
        <Port>465</Port>
        <DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
        <LoginName>dennisroczek@libreoffice.org</LoginName>
        <SPA>off</SPA>
        <SSL>on</SSL>
        <AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
      </Protocol>
      <Protocol>
        <Type>SMTP</Type>
        <TTL>168</TTL>
        <Server>mail.jpberlin.de</Server>
        <Port>465</Port>
        <DomainRequired>on</DomainRequired>
        <LoginName>dennisroczek@libreoffice.org</LoginName>
        <SPA>off</SPA>
        <AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
      </Protocol>
    </Account>
  </Response>
</Autodiscover>

I missed my prewritten comments regarding the Outlook parts:

The file should be located at https://libreoffice.org/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml (or alternatively at https://autodiscover.libreoffice.org/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml) (the connection has to be in SSL with a valid certificate, I (or anybody else who want to test this out) can test this scenario by modifying a registry using
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Outlook\Autodiscover] "libreoffice.org"="C:\temp\libreoffice.xml"
)

Everything can be tested by using Microsoft's official page (for the case you don't have any outlook 2007+)
https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/