automua 2022.6.7

Mail client autoconfiguration service

automua: Email client configuration made easy

automua makes configuring email accounts easy. It unites methods for automated mailbox configuration from Apple's Mobileconfig, Microsoft's Autodiscover and Mozilla's Autoconfig in one tool. automua is a fork of automx2. It accepts code contributions.

Copyright

automua is a fork of automx2. Check per-file copyright notices to see the sole modifications and the new files of the fork automua that are Copyright © 2022 Gaspard d'Hautefeuille. automx2 and most of the files of the fork are Copyright © 2019-2022 Ralph Seichter.

automua is licensed under the GNU General Public License V3 or later. The project is hosted on GitHub in the HLFH/automua repository. It is published on PyPI.org and Arch Linux AUR.

Advantages

automua as a fork of automx2 has a few advantages:

• automua is working better with Autodiscover with modern Outlook clients such as Outlook 2021 for Mac;
• automua implements PEP 517 & PEP 518 ;
• automua supports Arch Linux.

Documentation

Detailed documentation is available in HTML, PDF and other formats.

Dev notes

Mobileconfig payload
Use Apple Configurator to go into details.

MS-OXDSCLI Autodiscover Publishing and Lookup Protocol

Mozilla THunderbird is looking up with Autodiscover before Autoconfig.

Contributing

This project accepts code contributions.

Furthermore, submitting ideas, suggestions, requests and bug reports in the form of GitHub issues is welcome.

Sponsorship

It is possible to sponsor specific new features. Please contact me via email to discuss this in detail.