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Gianluca
Gianluca

Reputation: 1

Automatic acquisition of POP3/IMAP/SMTP parameters for an email server

I'm trying to find a way in order to retrieve POP3/IMAP/SMTP parameters for a specific e-mail server. What I would like to do is the following: given any e-mail address, such as [email protected]/it/etc, retrieve the correct POP3/IMAP settings in order to retrieve e-mails from that account and SMTP settings in order to send e-mails from that account.

Practically, what I search is a way to retrieve the server parameters needed in order to send and receive emails, that is, I search the same function that some e-mail client normally do when you create a new account.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1068

Answers (2)

nosid
nosid

Reputation: 50074

The auto-configuration mechanism of Mozilla Thunderbird is described on the following page:

It uses either a_central database_ (known as ISPDB) or site-local configuration information accessible via special URLs. For example the correct IMAP settings for email addresses with the domain web.de can be found under the following URL:

Upvotes: 1

user3286911
user3286911

Reputation:

Thunderbird does this as well as anyone and its source is available, so just download the source or look at it on the web.

Upvotes: 0

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