Patent ID: 8572189

Claim:
A method of providing configuration parameters to a mobile device to allow the mobile device to access an e-mail service, the method comprising: receiving a request from a user to access an e-mail service, the request transmitted from a mobile device of the user and containing an e-mail address of the user having a domain name corresponding to the e-mail service; querying a configuration settings database to determine whether configuration parameters associated with the domain name from the user's e-mail address are stored in the configuration settings database, the database storing configuration parameters associated with a plurality of domain names and a plurality of e-mail services, each e-mail service having an associated system administrator; if configuration parameters associated with the domain name are stored in the configuration settings database, transmitting the stored configuration parameters to the mobile device of the user so that the mobile device can be configured to access the e-mail service; and if configuration parameters associated with the domain name are not stored in the configuration settings database, querying a system administrator of the requested e-mail service for configuration parameters associated with the domain name that are necessary to access the e-mail service, receiving configuration parameters from the system administrator, and transmitting the received configuration parameters to the mobile device of the user so that the mobile device can be configured to access the e-mail service.