Outlook 2007 has a new feature which is provided to it by default only by Exchange 2007.
I recently thought of giving Outlook a try instead of Windows Live Mail. Of course, the geek in me wanted my Outlook 2007 first run experience to be awesome. I wanted autodiscover to work for me.
It turns out if you read a KB article and a technet article you can figure out that for 99% of POP/IMAP/SMTP installations, placing an autodiscover.xml file at a url of http://myemail.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml or at http://autodiscover.myemail.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml is all that is needed. The format of the xml is very simple.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Autodiscover xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/responseschema/2006">
<Response xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/autodiscover/outlook/responseschema/2006a">
<Account>
<AccountType>email</AccountType>
<Action>settings</Action>
<Protocol>
<Type>IMAP</Type>
<Server>mail.xmtp.net</Server>
<Port>993</Port>
<DomainRequired>off</DomainRequired>
<SPA>off</SPA>
<SSL>on</SSL>
<AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
</Protocol>
<Protocol>
<Type>SMTP</Type>
<Server>mail.xmtp.net</Server>
<Port>25</Port>
<DomainRequired>off</DomainRequired>
<SPA>off</SPA>
<SSL>on</SSL>
<AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
<UsePOPAuth>on</UsePOPAuth>
<SMTPLast>on</SMTPLast>
</Protocol>
<Protocol>
<Type>POP3</Type>
<Server>mail.xmtp.net</Server>
<Port>995</Port>
<DomainRequired>off</DomainRequired>
<SPA>off</SPA>
<SSL>on</SSL>
<AuthRequired>on</AuthRequired>
</Protocol>
</Account>
</Response>
</Autodiscover>
Do that, and the next time an Outlook2007 client tries to configure itself, it will.
vfsnd:t:cl:m: OPTS ;do
if [[ $OPTS == "x" ]]; then outputStyle=xml ; optCount=$((optCount+1)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "v" ]]; then action=view ; optCount=$((optCount+1)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "f" ]]; then forceAGen="true" ; optCount=$((optCount+1)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "s" ]]; then skipsvn=1 ; optCount=$((optCount+1)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "n" ]]; then noautoretry="true" ; optCount=$((optCount+1)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "d" ]]; then DEBUG="$OPTARG" ; optCount=$((optCount+2)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "t" ]]; then transform="$OPTARG" ; optCount=$((optCount+2)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "c" ]]; then for i in $MAKEDIRS;do pushd $i ; make clean ; popd ; done ;exit ; optCount=$((optCount+1)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "l" ]]; then level="$OPTARG" ; optCount=$((optCount+2)) ; fi
if [[ $OPTS == "m" ]]; then MAKEDIRS="$OPTARG" ; optCount=$((optCount+2));fi
done
if [[ $optCount != $((OPTIND-1)) ]] ; then echo "optcount($optCount) not equal to OPTIND($OPTIND)";fi
echo "using makedirs $MAKEDIRS"
echo "using prefix $MONO_PREFIX"
if [[ 1 > $skipsvn ]]; then
for i in $SVNDIRS
do
echo -e "\e[1;31m pushd $i \e[m"
if [[ -d $i ]];then
pushd $i
if [[ ! -d .svn ]];then pushd .. ; svn co http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/source/trunk/$i ;popd; fi
echo -e "\e[1;31m svn info"
svn info
echo 'svn log -r `svn info|grep Revision|cut -f2 -d' '`:HEAD'
echo -e "\e[m"
svn log -r `svn info|grep Revision|cut -f2 -d' '`:HEAD
echo svn up
nice -n 20 svn up
if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: $?" ;popd ; break; fi
pwd
popd
fi
done
else
echo "-s detected, skipping svn update"
fi
#mono, xsp, MD, GTK# etc
function autogenAndMake () {
echo "running for $*"
for i in $*
do
if [[ -d $i ]]; then
echo -e "\e[1;31m pushd $i \e[m"
pushd $i
if [[ -f "autogen.sh" ]];then
PROG=./autogen.sh
else
PROG=./configure
fi
if [[ "true" != $forceAGen ]]; then
nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install
fi
if [[ "true" != $noautoretry && $? != 0 || "true" == $forceAGen ]]; then
echo -e "\e[1;31m "
echo 'make clean ; $PROG --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX --enable-aspnet --enable-aspnetedit --with-preview --with-moonlight && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install'
echo -e "\e[m"
if [[ -f Makefile ]]; then make clean; fi
$PROG --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX --enable-aspnet --enable-aspnetedit --with-preview --with-moonlight && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install || break
fi
popd
fi
done
}
#-l not speced or even means build all - odd means build only banshee & olive
if [[ $((level % 2)) == 0 ]]; then
autogenAndMake $MAKEDIRS
fi
if [[ $level > 1 ]]; then
i=gtk-sharp
echo -e "\e[1;31m pushd $i \e[m"
pushd $i
echo -e "\e[1;31m "
echo 'make clean ; ./bootstrap-2.12 --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install'
echo -e "\e[m"
if [[ -f Makefile ]]; then make clean ; fi
./bootstrap-2.12 --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install || break
popd
fi
if [[ $level > 1 ]];then
#olive
for i in olive
do
if [[ -d $i ]] ; then
echo -e "\e[1;31m pushd $i \e[m"
pushd $i
echo -e "\e[1;31m "
echo 'make clean ; ./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install'
echo -e "\e[m"
if [[ -f Makefile ]]; then make clean ; fi
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install || break
popd
fi
done
fi
if [[ $level > 1 ]];then
#banshee
if [[ -d banshee ]];then
pushd banshee
cvs up
./configure --prefix=$MONO_PREFIX --disable-helix && nice -n 20 make && nice -n 20 make install || break
popd
autogenAndMake $BANSCHEEPLUGINS
fi
fi
popd
Jay R. Wren 