Autoconfig/discovery - is this still the most current?

https://www.howtoforge.com/communit...nfig-autodiscover-for-simple-platforms.59666/

I was quite surprised that auto discovery isn't part of the current out of box build, am I missing something.

It seems to me that I'll have to modify the default dns template too, and I'm not sure how to implement the suggestion above so it sticks.

 

There is also this:
https://blog.schaal-24.de/ispconfig/autoconfig-und-autodiscover-mit-ispconfig-automail/

 

just to note, Microsoft have changed something in recent versions of outlook, so that automatic setup does not work with new versions when using Florian's scripts that Taleman links to. Florian hasn't had the free time to troubleshoot and update.
older versions of outlook still automatically configure themselves ok, as does thunderbird.
I've not looked into the method the first post links to, I would assume it was affected the same way, and if so, have no idea if it's been updated/fixed.

 

Reading the Readme of Automail, I discovered there is also English documentation:
https://schaal-it.com/ispconfig-automail/
The link in #2 is the German version.

 

Autodiscovery is M$ invention and it will never work long with Linux setups.

 

According to MSDN the procedure for Autodiscovery has four different methods to get its settings. Upon one succeeds they are tried in order. Currently Android only implements two.

E.g. for mail address "[email protected]"

1) ask https://example.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml (WORKS)
2) ask https://autodiscover.example.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml (WORKS)
3) ask http://autodiscover.example.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml (NOT IMPLEMENTED)
4) ask SRV resource record in DNS for example.com service description (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

 

Any1 here know the format of autodiscover.xml ?

 

Here is a simple php script to generate it. Or just rip it from the file and customize it by hand:

https://github.com/Radiergummi/autodiscover/blob/master/autodiscover/autodiscover.php