[Bug 308181]

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(In reply to Hugo Osvaldo Barrera from comment #53)
>  4) Only thunderbird uses this information. If each email client had it's
> own non-standard mechanism, then ISPs would have a huge burden to update
> each of them with new information when they change their email server.

Evolution uses it too, although it looks like they host their own copy of the database.  Check out:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/evolution/tree/mail/e-mail-autoconfig.c
which uses a (sadly non-SSL) base url of:
http://api.gnome.org/evolution/autoconfig/1.1/

The upcoming Firefox OS Gaia e-mail client also uses the ISP database
too.


Note: Neither this nor I believe Ben's comments are meant to suggest that we don't want to support DNS SRV.  Unfortunately, it's still a non-trivial undertaking to get the support in the gecko platform that has not been prioritized on the platform side.  For Firefox OS v2 we are hoping to get it prioritized.

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  xmpp4moz doesn't read SRV DNS records

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