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Autodiscovery
=============

`RFC6186 <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6186>`_ allows supporting email clients to automatically discover SMTP / IMAP addresses
of the mailserver. For that, the following records are required:

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Record           TTL  Type Priority Weight Port Value
================ ==== ==== ======== ====== ==== =================
_submission._tcp 3600 SRV  5        0      587  mail.example.com.
_imap._tcp       3600 SRV  5        0      143  mail.example.com.
_imaps._tcp      3600 SRV  5        0      993  mail.example.com.
================ ==== ==== ======== ====== ==== =================

Please note that only a few MUAs currently implement this. For vendor-specific
discovery mechanisms `automx <https://github.com/rseichter/automx2>`_ can be used instead.