Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for configuring electronic messaging applications
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method for configuring an electronic mail message application to communicate with a server storing electronic mail messages at least one of to and from an electronic mail message account of a user, the computer-implemented method being executed when computer-readable instructions, stored on at least one memory, are executed by at least one processing unit of a computing system, the computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving an electronic mail message address and a password from the electronic mail message application;
attempting to retrieve server connection settings from a designated server while asynchronously deriving the server connection settings based on the electronic mail message address, wherein the server connection settings are unknown to the electronic mail message application and are necessary for establishing a connection between the electronic mail message application and the server, and wherein deriving server connection settings further comprises;
determining a domain portion of the electronic mail message address, wherein the domain portion includes a domain name and a top level domain;
prepending one or more known server prefix names to a front end of the domain portion of the electronic mail message address to yield a server domain combination;
calculating one or more permutations of the server domain combination;
evaluating the one or more permutations of the server domain combination to determine the server connection settings, the evaluating comprising;
attempting to establish a connection using the one or more permutations of the server domain combination and the password; and
detecting a connection to the server when at least one permutation of the server domain combination is successfully used with the password; and
identifying the at least one successful permutation of the server domain combination as the server connection settings; and
in response to detecting the connection to the server with the server connection settings, sending the server connection settings to the electronic mail message application.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums configure electronic messaging applications to communicate with a server storing messages to and/or from an electronic messaging account of a user. A method involves receiving an electronic message address and a password of the user as inputs, deriving server connection settings based on the electronic message address, and applying the server connection settings to the electronic messaging account. Another method involves receiving an electronic message address of the user and discovering the server connection settings for the electronic messaging account on a server having a designated protocol name as a server prefix name to assist in locating the server and having the server connection settings. The method also involves retrieving the server connection settings from a file provided by the server in response to locating the server having the designated name and applying the server connection settings to the electronic messaging account.
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20 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for configuring an electronic mail message application to communicate with a server storing electronic mail messages at least one of to and from an electronic mail message account of a user, the computer-implemented method being executed when computer-readable instructions, stored on at least one memory, are executed by at least one processing unit of a computing system, the computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving an electronic mail message address and a password from the electronic mail message application; attempting to retrieve server connection settings from a designated server while asynchronously deriving the server connection settings based on the electronic mail message address, wherein the server connection settings are unknown to the electronic mail message application and are necessary for establishing a connection between the electronic mail message application and the server, and wherein deriving server connection settings further comprises; determining a domain portion of the electronic mail message address, wherein the domain portion includes a domain name and a top level domain; prepending one or more known server prefix names to a front end of the domain portion of the electronic mail message address to yield a server domain combination; calculating one or more permutations of the server domain combination; evaluating the one or more permutations of the server domain combination to determine the server connection settings, the evaluating comprising; attempting to establish a connection using the one or more permutations of the server domain combination and the password; and detecting a connection to the server when at least one permutation of the server domain combination is successfully used with the password; and identifying the at least one successful permutation of the server domain combination as the server connection settings; and in response to detecting the connection to the server with the server connection settings, sending the server connection settings to the electronic mail message application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A computer-implemented method for configuring an electronic mail message application to communicate with a server storing electronic mail messages for an electronic mail message account of a user, the computer-implemented method being executed when computer-readable instructions, stored on at least one memory, are executed by at least one processing unit of a computing system, the computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving an electronic mail message address, wherein the electronic mail message address comprises a plurality of ordered levels of intermediate domain names preceding a top level domain, the plurality of ordered levels beginning with a lowest level and ending with a highest level; discovering server connection settings for the electronic mail message account on a designated server having a designated server name and having the server connection settings, wherein the server connection settings are necessary for establishing a connection between the electronic mail message application and the server, and wherein discovering the server connection settings further comprises; generating a list of one or more designated servers, wherein generating the list comprises at least prepending the designated server name as a prefix to the one or more ordered levels of intermediate domain names preceding the top level domain to form an initial server domain name; attempting to establish a connection to the designated server using the initial server domain name by sending a first HTTP Post command, wherein the HTTP Post command comprises at least the electronic mail message address; in response to failing to establish a connection to the designated server, trimming a lowest level of the one or more ordered levels of intermediate domain names from the initial server domain name; attempting to establish a connection to the designated server using the trimmed initial server domain name by sending a second HTTP Post command, wherein the second HTTP Post command comprises at least the electronic mail message address; in response to establishing a connection to the designated server, retrieving the server connection settings from a file provided by the designated server; and sending the retrieved server connection settings to the electronic mail message application. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computer storage medium, having computer-readable instructions stored thereon for configuring an electronic mail message application to communicate with a server storing electronic mail messages for an electronic mail message account of a user, the method comprising:
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receiving an electronic mail message address, wherein the electronic mail message address comprises a plurality of ordered levels of intermediate domain names preceding a top level domain, the plurality of ordered levels beginning with a lowest level and ending with a highest level; discovering server connection settings for the electronic mail message account on a designated server having a designated server name and having the server connection settings, wherein the server connection settings are necessary for establishing a connection between the electronic mail message application and the server, and wherein discovering the server connection settings further comprises; generating a list of one or more designated servers, wherein generating the list comprises at least prepending the designated server name as a prefix to the one or more ordered levels of intermediate domain names preceding the top level domain to form an initial server domain name; attempting to establish a connection to the designated server using the initial server domain name by sending a first HTTP Post command, wherein the HTTP Post command comprises at least the electronic mail message address; in response to failing to establish a connection to the designated server, trimming a lowest level of the one or more ordered levels of intermediate domain names from the initial server domain name; attempting to establish a connection to the designated server using the trimmed initial server domain name by sending a second HTTP Post command, wherein the second HTTP Post command comprises at least the electronic mail message address; in response to establishing a connection to the designated server, retrieving the server connection settings from a file provided by the designated server; and sending the retrieved server connection settings to the electronic mail message application. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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