Re: Gnome evolution and RFC 6186

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 09:06 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-04-03 at 07:30 +0100, André Rodier via desktop-devel-
> list wrote:
> > I am setting up DNS records for email services automatic discovery
> > (RFC 6186) but it seems that evolution is ignoring them.

        Hi,
which version of Evolution we are talking about, please? The 3.28.0+
does read SRV records and other stuff. Ideally Edit->Accounts->
Add->Collection Account, which knows quite interesting things.

> You might do better on the evolution mailing list (now in Cc),

I'd avoid cross-posting, though you are correct that the evolution-list 
is better for evolution-specific questions.

> It would also be useful to delegate the various protocols'
> autodiscover mechanisms to the back ends, instead of having protocol-
> specific knowledge for EWS, ActiveSync, IMAP and other stuff hard-
> coded into Evolution itself.

Already done and possible, in 3.28.0+. The "old" (and still used)
autoconfig uses the information based on the domain part of the email,
while this information is stored on a GNOME server.
        Bye,
        Milan