

Other clients don’t even support such functionality. Their own proprietary method, which service providers need to support on there Trough a combination of DNS and HTTP queries from the domain-part of the address.Īs there is no univeersal standard for this, different mail-clients use These mail clients retrieve configuration data for a mail-address All theĬomplicated configurations for incoming and outgoing mailservers, port-number,Įncryption and login methods, address-books and calendars will then be setup Smartphone only need to provide their mail-address and password. Should support storing OpenPGP encrypted emails locally.With mail-client auto-configuration, users who setup a new mail-client or.Should not collect any telemetry by default.Our recommendations may not include any or all of this functionality, but those which do may rank higher than others on this page. Our best-case criteria represents what we would like to see from the perfect project in this category. Must support OpenPGP message encryption.Must not collect telemetry, or have an easy way to disable all telemetry.Apps developed for open-source operating systems must be open-source.There are many factors considered and discussed when we recommend a project, and documenting every single one is a work-in-progress. If you have any questions about our criteria, please ask on our forum and don't assume we didn't consider something when making our recommendations if it is not listed here. We are working on establishing defined criteria for every section of our site, and this may be subject to change.
