1. A system for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email comprising: a mobile office platform operative as an agent between the user and electronic mailbox of the user and comprising a processor and a memory and defining a communications module and a configuration module that are operative for accessing the electronic mailbox; the communications module configured to receive email address parameters of a user and transmit 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; the configuration module configured to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and the configuration module configured to determine 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.
1. A system for provisioning an electronic mail (email) account of a user for allowing access to an electronic mailbox to retrieve email comprising: a mobile office platform operative as an agent between the user and electronic mailbox of the user and comprising a processor and a memory and defining a communications module and a configuration module that are operative for accessing the electronic mailbox; the communications module configured to receive email address parameters of a user and transmit 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; the configuration module configured to process returned MX records to determine candidate configuration parameters for accessing the email account of the user to retrieve user email; and the configuration module configured to determine 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. 6. A system according to claim 1 , wherein the configuration module is configured to attempt access to the email account of the user based upon five or less candidate configuration parameters.