How to create an autodiscover for Google Apps

[robbie-w]

Couldnt find anything online so I thought I'd post this in the hope it is of use to someone

 

Not perfected yet but works well

 

1) create a DNS entry A record in the domain of the email address - Name:

Autodiscover IP: of-a-web-server

2) On the webserver create a website

autodiscover.your-domain.xx and apply an SSL certificate matching this

name

3) If using IIS create a script map so that *.xml is handled by

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\asp.dll and allow POST and GET verbs

4) In the

website root create a subfolder called autodiscover

5) Create a file in

thecalled autodiscover.xml and paste in this code

6) remove the pop or imap

section from the list depending what you want users to use (or move one above

the other for priority)

 

?>

xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/responseschema/2006a">

email

settings

IMAP

imap.gmail.com

993

on

off

on

on

POP3

pop.gmail.com

995

on

off

on

on

SMTP

smtp.gmail.com

465

on

off

on

on

on

off

 

My

final hurdle is to grab the email address posted by outlook and put it in a

tag as currently it uses the initial part of the email for the

username prior to the domain. At the moment I have been try Request.Form and Request.Querystring but cant see the variable it is posting

 

Thanks

 

Robbie Wallis

Boston College UK