Show HN: IMAP, POP, SMTP Email Settings Lookup and JSON API (emailsettings.email)

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We've added about 20,000 verified email settings for many domains worldwide, so users can instantly get their email settings for IMAP, POP and SMTP by inputing their email address or domain. There's also a JSON API that works like this https://emailsettings.firetrust.com/settings?q=test.user@gma...

stephenr 9y ago ↗

So this is basically just reading rfc6186 dns entries/autoconfog.xml/autodiscover.xml and picking the first result right?

mingabunga 9y ago ↗

No, a bit more reliable - they're actual settings stored from users of one of our products. The next step is to build a system to query newly entered unknown domains.