Autodiscover
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for Outlook, Thunderbird & Mobile Devices
What is Autodiscover
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They are It's a web services that are is used by a growing number of applications and which help helps in configuring your mobile devices and desktop clients. Autodiscover is used by Outlook and all mobile devices including iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android devices while Autoconfig is used by Thunderbird. These , 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
The configuration is very simple and straightforward.You only have You'll need to add two an A type records record in the DNS of the domain for which you wish 'd like to enable these this services. They are:
A record hostname | Points to |
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autodiscover |
69.28.212.195
.<yourdomain.com> | 69.28.212.195 |