8. A method of provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email, the method comprising: receiving email address parameters of a user and transmitting a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user; processing returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and determining candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records and including a first preference mail domain and a second preference mail domain based upon relative geographic proximity.
8. A method of provisioning an electronic mail (email) account for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email, the method comprising: receiving email address parameters of a user and transmitting a domain name system (DNS) query to the Internet for returning mail exchange (MX) records, including email domain names, corresponding to the email address parameters of the user; processing returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and determining candidate configuration parameters based upon expanding a plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records and including a first preference mail domain and a second preference mail domain based upon relative geographic proximity. 10. A method according to claim 8 , wherein the prioritized email domain names include multiple parts; and determining candidate configuration parameters includes expanding the multiple parts of the plurality of prioritized email domain names of the returned MX records.