What mailu's autoconfiguration module (automx2 2021.6, container mailu-automx on novox, Werkzeug/3.1.9 Python/3.9.5) answers to the requests mail clients make (R4d step AMX-1, issue 1630, ADR 0480). Captured 2026-10-21 between 13:58:25 and 13:58:52 (CEST; the Date headers said 11:58 GMT) with the mesh tool shanks/netcheck.netcheck_request, called from shanks, through the names clients use (autoconfig.novox.be, autodiscover.novox.be, automx.novox.be: HTTPS, the mesh's route), no ssh. A redirect is reported, never followed. Mail domain served: novox.be. Mailbox used: jochen@novox.be; unknown domain: nobody@unknown.example. Each capture is four files with the same stem: .request method and URL, then the request headers sent, then (after a blank line) the body sent .status the status line .headers the response headers, sorted by name, without Date (it changes on every request) .body the response body, byte for byte (Content-Length in .headers equals its size) The files were written from the tool's answers by a script (not by retyping each by hand); the tool returns JSON, so a later capture that wants exact bytes needs a tool that writes the answer to a file. A fixture is not the bytes on the wire in four ways (issue 1701): - Date is left out of .headers (it changes on every request). - .headers are sorted by name. - .status holds the tool's status line without the protocol (the tool reported "HTTP/1.1" apart). - Header names are as the tool's Go HTTP client gives them (canonical case, after the mesh's route), not as automx wrote them. What the answers show (read, not guessed): - GET /mail/config-v1.1.xml?emailaddress=... answers 200 application/xml on all three names; same body on each. - The incoming (IMAP) server has an EMPTY hostname (), port 143, STARTTLS. The outgoing server is mail.novox.be:587 STARTTLS. Cause (from reading the module, not from the database): automx/files/add-domains:35 reads AMX_IMAP_SERVER, files/mailu.env:58 sets AMX_IMAP_ADDRESS, so the IMAP name was never written. A client given this answer cannot find its IMAP server. - POST /autodiscover/autodiscover.xml with a valid request for the served domain answers 500 (the Outlook answer for a real mailbox does not work today). Unknown domain: 204 no body. Malformed body: 500. No EMailAddress element: 400 "Missing request argument "EMailAddress"". GET: 405 with Allow: POST, OPTIONS. The path is case sensitive (/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml is 404). - GET /mobileconfig?emailaddress=... redirects (308) to /mobileconfig/?emailaddress=...; for the served domain that answers 400 with no profile; unknown domain 204; no emailaddress 400. - GET / on autoconfig answers 200 with a small HTML page linking to an example address. - The database rows behind the answers were read once with the tool automx_rows (mailu, issue 1630 AC4), which ran sqlite3 read-only inside mailu-automx. The tool is retired with the database (ADR 0480 clause 10, issue 1700), so nothing reads the rows any more; the answers above are what they gave. - The Go program that replaced automx2 answers these requests as they are captured here, but for what DIFFERENCES lists.