Autodiscover for Outlook, Thunderbird & Mobile Devices

What is Autodiscover ?

It's a web services that is used by a growing number of applications and which helps in configuring your mobile devices and desktop clients. Autodiscover is used by Outlook, Thunderbird, eM Client, iOS & Android devices in order to automatically configure the e-mail application.

This services allow you to configure an e-mail account by only entering your e-mail address and password, without having to worry about incoming servers, outgoing servers, or ports. All communication is configured to be secured through SSL by default. However, the implementation is heavily dependent on the software maker ( Apple, Microsoft ) and some versions have better integrations than others.

DNS Configuration

You'll need to add an A type record in the DNS of the domain for which you'd like to enable this services: