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Will Thunderbird Chat complete support for XMPP (need SRV) ?

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BatManuel
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After trying to connect to my XMPP server I noticed that Thunderbird does not try to resolve the proper DNS records for XMPP, instead it seems to try to connect to the A record for the domain name.

This makes the Chat part useless unless the user does the DNS queries themselves.

More on XMPP SRV Records: http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/SRV_Records


I'm a bit surprised this question has not been asked before, if I have missed a page that addresses this, do let me know.


Cheers

After trying to connect to my XMPP server I noticed that Thunderbird does not try to resolve the proper DNS records for XMPP, instead it seems to try to connect to the A record for the domain name. This makes the Chat part useless unless the user does the DNS queries themselves. More on XMPP SRV Records: http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/SRV_Records I'm a bit surprised this question has not been asked before, if I have missed a page that addresses this, do let me know. Cheers

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Onno Ekker
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I think this is bug 787369...

BatManuel
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Indeed, it seems this has been around since https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14328 (or is at least very related).

TL;DR there's no solution yet.