On 29/07/25 10:40 pm, Aditya Garg wrote: > Autoconfiguring SMTP server settings is a common feature present in many > email clients. In order to get the correct SMTP server settings easily, > this commit adds a `--get-smtp-server` option to `git send-email`. This > option attempts to fetch the SMTP server settings for a given email address > via the following steps: > > 1. It first tries to fetch the settings from Mozilla's ISPDB at > `https://autoconfig.thunderbird.net/v1.1/[domain]`. > > 2. If that fails, it attempts to fetch the autoconfig file from the email > provider's autoconfig URL, which is typically in the format > `https://autoconfig.[domain]/mail/config-v1.1.xml?emailaddress=[email]`. > > 3. If that also fails, it falls back to checking the MX records of the > domain used in the email address to find the SMTP server. It can be > useful in case of emails with custom domains. It attempts to guess > the correct domain for the email from the MX records, and repeats the > first 2 steps with the guessed domain. > > This feature is heavily inpired by the autoconfig feature in Mozilla > Thunderbird. A detailed documentation about how thunderbird fetches the > autoconfig settings can be found at: > > https://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/thunderbird/autoconfiguration/ It has a v2, which I didn't send as a reply to this by mistake: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20250730151227.12389-1-gargaditya08@xxxxxxxx/T/#u
