Jason Wohlford | 1 Mar 2012 01:42
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration


On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:

> SOGo Users,
> 
> I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.
> 
> automx runs on your server and handles mail account profile requests from your
> mail clients. It unifies Microsofts and Mozillas mail account provisioning
> standards in one powerful Open Source tool. Choose from many backends,
> including LDAP and SQL, and let automx create standard and individualized
> profiles for multiple domains on the fly!
> 
> automx is Open Source software released under GPL3.
> 
> More on http://automx.org
> 
> p <at> rick

Very interesting. I've got Thunderbird working very well for autoconfig. I've had a time of it getting
Outlook and Mac OS X Mail.app working at all. Will review. Thank you.

Btw, nice site.

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SOGo reporter | 1 Mar 2012 06:01
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[SOGo] BTS activities for Wednesday, February 29 2012

BTS Activities

Home page: http://www.sogo.nu/bugs
Project: SOGo
For the period covering: Wednesday, February 29 2012

idlast updatestatus (resolution)categorysummary
1643 2012-02-29 11:03:24 updated (open) GUI sogo-connector.autoComplete.commentAttribute = "Notes" doesn't work in TB10
1625 2012-02-29 07:24:06 updated (open) Web Address Book Duplicate List in address book
1476 2012-02-29 08:01:41 updated (open) Web General hide "Any Authenticated User" in sharing user list
1637 2012-02-29 07:23:44 updated (open) Web Mail Mailboxes sharing - toggle all checkboxes
1657 2012-02-29 06:02:23 new (open) with external server SoGo connector stops syncing when changing contact name
1656 2012-02-29 11:09:54 resolved (fixed) SOPE Empty mailfolder when password contains characters 
Alessio Cecchi | 1 Mar 2012 08:19
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Re: [SOGo] Funambol 11

Il 29/02/2012 21:00, Mirko Stoffers ha scritto:
> Hi all,
>
> I just got a complaint from a user that his Android no longer syncs with
> SOGo. He said that the "Funambol" app has vanished and instead a
> "OneMediaHub" app from Funambol Inc. has appeared.
>
> When I search for "funambol", I find two apps on the market:
>
> OneMediaHub 11.0.1:
> https://market.android.com/details?id=com.funambol.androidsync&feature=search_result
>
>
> FunV10 10.1.1:
> https://market.android.com/details?id=com.funambol.funv10&feature=search_result
>
>
> My conclusion is that Funambol updated and renamed Funambol 10 to
> OneMediaHub 11, and added a new app FunV10 10. So far so good, but the
> user-comments on the market indicate that OneMediaHub 11 does not work
> with custom servers, i.e. it will not work with SOGo. Can anybody
> confirm that? (Or did the users just not find the switch?)

On Blackberry I use Onemediahub 10 (just installed yesterday) with SOGo 
and works fine. When you start for the first time Onemediahub the app 
invite you to register with onemediahub.com services. Just scroll down 
and select "I have already an account".

I don't know if is the same procedure on Android.

Let me know.

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Alessio Cecchi | 1 Mar 2012 08:25
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

Il 29/02/2012 20:43, Patrick Ben Koetter ha scritto:
> SOGo Users,
>
> I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.
>
> automx runs on your server and handles mail account profile requests from your
> mail clients. It unifies Microsofts and Mozillas mail account provisioning
> standards in one powerful Open Source tool. Choose from many backends,
> including LDAP and SQL, and let automx create standard and individualized
> profiles for multiple domains on the fly!
>
> automx is Open Source software released under GPL3.
>
> More on http://automx.org
>
> p <at> rick
>

Very usefull tool, what is the protocol, behind automx, that make 
transparent the configuration for clients from different vendors?

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Patrick Ben Koetter | 1 Mar 2012 09:02
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

* Jason Wohlford <users@...>:
> 
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> 
> > SOGo Users,
> > 
> > I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> > easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> > Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.
> > 
> > automx runs on your server and handles mail account profile requests from your
> > mail clients. It unifies Microsofts and Mozillas mail account provisioning
> > standards in one powerful Open Source tool. Choose from many backends,
> > including LDAP and SQL, and let automx create standard and individualized
> > profiles for multiple domains on the fly!
> > 
> > automx is Open Source software released under GPL3.
> > 
> > More on http://automx.org
> > 
> > p <at> rick
> 
> Very interesting. I've got Thunderbird working very well for autoconfig.
> I've had a time of it getting Outlook and Mac OS X Mail.app working at all.
> Will review. Thank you.

Any client using Microsofts autodiscover schema will require a trusted https
session. That in turn means you need to get out and get a SSL cert first.
There are cheap ssls (<- hint) out there.

Mail.app and iPhones do not support network based autoconfiguration at the
moment. Cyrus Daboo (as Apple member) created an RFC specifying DNS based
autoconfiguration through SRV records, but neither do Macs currently imlement
that RFC nor would it take that feature as far as Microsoft took it, when they
came up with autodiscover. autodiscover can, for example, specify a TTL for an
account profile. The client will revisit the server then and check for changed
account settings; perfect in my eyes as migration hook.

> Btw, nice site.

Thanks. The design was taken from bootstrap
<http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>. Typos are mine. ;)

p <at> rick

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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

* Alessio Cecchi <users@...>:
> Il 29/02/2012 20:43, Patrick Ben Koetter ha scritto:
> >SOGo Users,
> >
> >I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> >easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> >Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.
> >
> >automx runs on your server and handles mail account profile requests from your
> >mail clients. It unifies Microsofts and Mozillas mail account provisioning
> >standards in one powerful Open Source tool. Choose from many backends,
> >including LDAP and SQL, and let automx create standard and individualized
> >profiles for multiple domains on the fly!
> >
> >automx is Open Source software released under GPL3.
> >
> >More on http://automx.org
> >
> >p <at> rick
> >
> 
> Very usefull tool, what is the protocol, behind automx, that make
> transparent the configuration for clients from different vendors?

Glad you like it!

automx unifies two proprietary standards from Microsoft and Mozilla. Both
use http(s) for client and server communication. Mozilla uses a GET request
and transmits a mail address. Microsoft uses a POST request and sends an XML
file which may contain more than a mail address.

Microsoft and Mozilla send their data to different URLs. That makes it easy to
tell them apart and return something they will accept as account profile. In
either case the server (automx) sends an XML response. You can use the
automx-test comnand line tool to see what automx turns back like this:

$ automx-test automx@...

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Alessio Fattorini | 1 Mar 2012 09:43
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

Il 29/02/2012 20:43, Patrick Ben Koetter ha scritto:
> SOGo Users,
>
> I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.

Great tool,
i don't find redhat rpm but i read "Packaged for Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu 
and RedHat"
Oversight?

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Patrick Ben Koetter | 1 Mar 2012 09:49
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

* Alessio Fattorini <users@...>:
> Il 29/02/2012 20:43, Patrick Ben Koetter ha scritto:
> >SOGo Users,
> >
> >I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> >easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> >Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.
> 
> Great tool,
> i don't find redhat rpm but i read "Packaged for Debian, Gentoo,
> Ubuntu and RedHat"

ARGH!

> Oversight?

Sorry. Text in the future. RPM yet to arrive. Should be there in a week.
If you can't wait use the TAR file. There are only a few dependencies.

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Alessio Fattorini | 1 Mar 2012 09:52
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

Nella citazione in data gio 01 mar 2012 09:49:58 CET, Patrick Ben 
Koetter ha scritto:
> Sorry. Text in the future. RPM yet to arrive. Should be there in a week.
> If you can't wait use the TAR file. There are only a few dependencies.

I can wait ;-) no problem thank you

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Jakob Lenfers | 1 Mar 2012 10:22
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Re: [SOGo] ANN: automx - automated mail account configuration

Am 29.02.2012 20:43, schrieb Patrick Ben Koetter:

> I am pleased to announce automx, a tool that makes setting up a mail account
> easy. All your users need to provide is real name, mail address and password.
> Their mail client and automx will safely handle the rest.

Cool! I'm still not 100% sure what the tool does: It would be enough to
know your name, mail and password to setup an account? And that in a
couple of different mail clients, right?

So if I already setup mozillas autoconfig
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/Autoconfiguration) and
only use Thunderbird, it would be the same result, wouldn't it?

Thanks!
Jakob