Make SIP configuration simple
We've discussed this but I don't think there's a bug yet:
It would be great if account configuration would be automatic for most SIP providers. Needed information could came from several sources:
-
a built in list of provides that downstreams can even customize (similar to what e.g. TB does) - built-in does not necessarily mean we ship it in this repo, could live elsewhere similar to mobile-broadband-provider-info, also doesn't need to be calls specific. Other SIP apps could use it too.
-
autoconfiguration with a mechanism similar to TBs http://example.com/.well-known/autoconfig/mail/config-v1.1.xml lookup to retrieve information (this obviously needs provider buy in but scales well (and works well for TB since some time) and also allows small setups to be user friendly. Since providers usually have different options (paid, free, ...) this isn't trivial though but we could at least derive common parameters like server/port/transport once the user entered their number (e.g.
123456@example.com
)
More details on TB autoconfig: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Autoconfiguration