495623 - .tel integration: send an email to a .tel domain name via dns lookup

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(MailNews Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[spam]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.28 Safari/530.5
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It would be great if we could enter a .tel domain name into the To: field of a new email, and have Thunderbird dynamically perform a dns lookup for an email address record at that domain to replace the .tel.

Reproducible: Always




telnic.org have already created a plug-in that integrates .tel with Outlook.
http://dev.telnic.org/pages/winoutlook/landing.html

Lets have native support for .tel in thunderbird.

Comment 1

[Nikolay Shopik]

Not sure if that currently possible Gecko code can only lockup A DNS records.

Wayne, probably this should move to some mailnews core component, what you think?

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Not sure if that currently possible Gecko code can only lockup A DNS records.

Gecko's DNS support is quite low. It all depends on how this thing is working.
Based on http://dev.telnic.org/pages/general_landing.html I don't think it would work with the current necko stack.

I also think this request would be very well suited for an extension.

Comment 3

[Nikolay Shopik]

But extension use also Gecko code so again developer will bump against wall. .tel get information from NAPTR, TXT and LOC records.

Comment 4

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> But extension use also Gecko code so again developer will bump against wall.
> .tel get information from NAPTR, TXT and LOC records.
True. But we are blocked here by mozilla core - I'll try to find the blocker.

Comment 5

[Nikolay Shopik]

There seems no blocker I can find, only mention of its limitation in bug 342242#c15