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 mobile devices including iPhone, iPod, iPad and Android devices, while Autoconfig is used by Thunderbird. Autodiscover used to be supported in older versions of Outlook, but it's not supported anymore for IMAP account setup. These 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 have '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:
Basic and Enanced Accounts:
A record hostname | Points to |
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autodiscover.<yourdomain.com> | 69.28.212.195 |
autoconfig.<yourdomain.com> | 69.28.212.195 |
Exchange Accounts:
A record hostname | Points to |
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autodiscover.<yourdomain.com> | 69.172.250.30 |
autoconfig.<yourdomain.com> | 69.172.250.30 |