[Kde-pim] KMails Account Wizard

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/12/23 Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org>:
> Continuing this idea a bit further, much of this can probably be
> auto-detected, like we do with the security settings for SMTP and IMAP. A
> user would just specifiy her email address in the first step, derived from
> that we get a likely hostname for the mailserver, which we could query for
> supported services.  Even if we don't get to the perfect situation of just
> specifying email address and password, we nevertheless could probably
> simplify the process by offering the most likely option first and hiding
> unavailable options.
>

The website mail2web.com gets this right. Maybe someone could set up a
faux mailserver and see exactly what probes mail2web does.

-- 
Dotan Cohen

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