Automatically Configure Mail.app

When adding some email accounts in mail.app the IMAP and SMTP servers are automatically discovered and all the information needed is Name, Email Address, and Password. Usually this occurs with large email providers and ISPs. Is it possible to configure my SLS to do this. I tried messing with SRV records in my DNS with no success. It would make client setup much easier.
Thanks

Hello,
This is possible, you need to build your own mail account bundle.
Here is a link to a rather old dev. article on the subject: -
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSXServer/Conceptual/XSe rver_ProgrammingGuide/Articles/MailAccountBundles.html
Although I would point out that the location for the bundle has moved to /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Resources/AccountTypes. Also some of the options / flags are now deprecated - look at the provided apple one in that folder for clues where to start.
With a little work, you can still get it to work great.

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Maurizio Atzori wrote:
Yes, you were right, the GMail account was configured as IMAP.
I mistakenly wrote "POP3" in the subject because I took for granted that the account would have been set as POP3 by default.
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