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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27-11-12 22:32 , Jim wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:50B585D7.2030403@gmail.com" type="cite">I
mentioned a while back that the Gaia email app is using the
Mozilla ISP DB to help configure users' email accounts. One
important difference between Thunderbird and the Gaia app is that
the latter supports Exchange ActiveSync (notably used by Hotmail).
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Obviously, the autoconfig files in the ISP DB don't list
ActiveSync config info. Does anyone foresee a problem with adding
ActiveSync configs to these files where appropriate?
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I'm broadly in favour, but have a couple of concerns, which I will
now work through in this email. ;)<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:50B585D7.2030403@gmail.com" type="cite">Thoughts?
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On the one hand, <a
href="http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/prefs/content/accountcreation/readFromXML.js#51">readFromXML</a>
will throw an exception if the type of an incomingServer isn't one
of <span id="the-code"><a
href="http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/prefs/content/accountcreation/readFromXML.js#57">[<span
class="s">"pop3"</span>, <span class="s">"imap"</span>, <span
class="s">"nntp"</span>]</a>. But, it looks like <a
href="http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/base/prefs/content/accountcreation/readFromXML.js#123">we
trap that</a>, and only actually throw if none of the
incomingServers have a valid type. So, as long as you make sure
that any given ActiveSync config also has a pop/imap config, I
don't see any problem.<br>
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I do wonder, though, if we should try to skip the Thunderbird
ISPDB for this case, and instead use the Exchange autoconfig, if
that's even a thing…<br>
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Later,<br>
Blake.</span><br>
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Blake Winton Thunderbird User Experience Lead
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bwinton@mozilla.com">bwinton@mozilla.com</a></pre>
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