{"id":7060,"date":"2018-01-29T14:25:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2020-05-11T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T13:48:54","slug":"combell-basic-e-mail-configuration-made-easy-thanks-to-autodiscover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/combell-basic-e-mail-configuration-made-easy-thanks-to-autodiscover\/","title":{"rendered":"Combell Basic E-mail configuration made easy thanks to AutoDiscover"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to AutoDiscover, the necessary information about incoming\/outgoing mail servers, authentication, connection security, etc. are entered automatically in your e-mail client. Quite handy, isn\u2019t it? But what are its benefits and how does it work?<\/p>\n

Configuring Basic E-mail: the traditional method<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When you purchase a new smartphone or computer, or when you switch e-mail clients, you often have trouble entering the correct information. In the case of major mail providers (like Hotmail, Gmail, Telenet, Proximus, etc.), this information is retrieved automatically. You just need to enter your e-mail address and password, and all the other information is completed automatically.<\/p>\n

But if you have your own domain name <\/strong>with associated mailboxes, such as mydomain.be, the e-mail client does not know where to retrieve this information. If you use Combell Basic E-mail<\/strong><\/a>, you could already retrieve this information in the comprehensive help<\/a> files, which contain step-by-step instructions for various e-mail clients: Outlook (Windows, macOS), Mozilla Thunderbird (Windows, macOS), Apple Mail, etc.<\/p>\n

Configuring Basic E-mail: the automatic method via AutoDiscover<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"AutoDiscoverThe developers at Combell made sure the server information can be retrieved automatically via AutoDiscover<\/strong> whenever possible. Unfortunately, not all e-mail clients support this feature, but luckily, this is the case for two very popular e-mail clients: Outlook for Windows<\/strong> and Thunderbird for Mac and Windows<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Other e-mail clients support this feature only with Exchange accounts: Outlook<\/strong> for Mac\/iOS\/Android, Android Mail<\/strong> and the Hotmail\/<\/strong>Outlook.com<\/strong> webmail. As for Gmail<\/strong>\u2019s webmail, it only supports this feature for a couple of major providers (Yahoo, Hotmail\u2026).<\/p>\n

Apple Mail<\/strong> for macOS\/iOS does not support AutoDiscover either, but Combell came up with a solution to this problem, which we will discuss later in this article.<\/p>\n

The benefits of AutoDiscover<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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