They are web services that are used by a growing number of applications and which help 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. These 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.
You have to add two A type records in the DNS of the domain for which you wish to enable these services. They are:
A record hostname | Points to |
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autodiscover.<yourdomain.com> | 69.28.212.195 |
autoconfig.<yourdomain.com> | 69.28.212.195 |
A record hostname | Points to |
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autodiscover.<yourdomain.com> | 69.172.250.30 |
autoconfig.<yourdomain.com> | 69.172.250.30 |