Autodiscover
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for Outlook, Thunderbird & Mobile Devices
Desktop Clients
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 servicesModern e-mail clients such as Outlook and Thunderbird support automatic configuration through specific web services. These services make configuration of the e-mail client a lot faster by automatically filling in the required server names and ports. With PolarisMail, these services will automatically configure an SSL IMAP account along with SSL SMTP access. In order to benefit from these services, you have to setup the following entries in the DNS for your domain:
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A record hostname | Points to |
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autodiscover.<yourdomain.com> | 69.28.212.195 |
autoconfig.<yourdomain.com>
69.28.212.195
Configuring the e-mail clients after this DNS change becomes a lot easier.
Outlook:
Go to Tools -> Account Settings and click on New 
Click on Next
Enter the user's full name, his e-mail address and password. Click on Next
Outlook will search for the web service...
Allow autodiscover.emailarray.com/AutoDiscover/AutoDiscover.xml to configure the client.
The account is now configured. Click on Finish