automx2 v2019.0

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Hi,

Am 03.01.20 um 22:01 schrieb Ralph Seichter:
> * Wolfgang Rosenauer:
> 
>> I'm still not sure how to represent the possibility to offer IMAP via
>> STARTTLS and TLS with one of it preferred.
> 
> Why would one of those mechanisms be preferred, given that they achieve
> the same goal, albeit with a small amount of extra data sent in the case
> of STARTTLS? Define both, have the client pick one.
> 
> I am aware that the order of entries in the result can indicate order of
> preference, but currently the returned server records depend wholly on
> the database backend and/or driver, and clients are not guaranteed to
> honor order of preference anyway.

According to the Mozilla autoconfig specification the order is actually
defined (if only for Thunderbird):

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration:ConfigFileFormat#Multiple_servers


Wolfgang