If you are looking for a custom domain email on a reliable host for free, then Microsoft Outlook is the best free solution. Microsoft Outlook custom domain allow 50 accounts/domain for your personal or small business use. If you need more than 50 accounts per domain then you will have to signup, which is quite costly at the moment. If you want to be email provider then Microsoft Outlook for custom domain is also best choice. You may do this without spending a single penny.
IMPORTANT: Microsoft has stopped new signup for free email hosting. If you are looking for. It offers 20 free email accounts. For those who already have a free account, should create as much as account they need in future.
Since you will no longer be able create new accounts in near future. Outlook.com no longer offers support for new custom domain sign ups.
New customers looking to manage custom domains are encouraged to use Office 365, Microsoft’s premium online service, which also includes enterprise-class mail, collaboration and communication tools. Thanks to “Raja” for. Recently, Google has stopped offering Google Apps for free. They charges are pretty high for any type of organizations.
Well, I will not compare between the two services in the topic, but just helping you to configure Microsoft Outlook custom domain for free email. But first discuss about the features what Microsoft offers for free. Email hosting. Maps. Profiles. Photos.
SkyDrive. Groups.
Calender. All services are free and can be offered from a custom domain or sub-domain. Setup Microsoft Outlook custom domain for email hosting: Step 1: Go to. Fill the domain name in the box. If you don’t have any domain and want to purchase then you may buy from any Microsoft partners or buy from GoDaddy, Name.com or Dreamhost are best in the segment. Don’t forget to check “Set up Outlook.com for my domain” in “Choose mail service for your domain” on the same page As shown in the image above. You may also change this setting later, but who want to do that!
Now click “Continue”. Step 2: In the next step, you will be ask to setup domain administrator.
A domain administrator will be responsible for all activity in the Outlook custom domain account. I will recommend you to use an existing account or account from outside the custom domain. Check “Sign in with an existing Microsoft account” and hit continue to login existing account. You may also sign up for a new outlook.com account if you don’t have any.
After logging in to account Microsoft will ask you to review the settings and accept agreement just hit “I Accept” after review it. Step 3: Verifying domain and set up MX record To verify domain name you will need to goto your domain registrar and add some records. Add a txt record which will be in v=msv1 t=example, and MX record which will be in “example.msv1.invalid”. Note the “example” part will be same. You may refer to your domain registrar help topics for any help in configuring TXT and MX record. Now you will have to wait for sometime, until DNS is propagating across the globe.
It may take from few seconds to 48 hrs. After some time hit “Refresh” button in the yellow alert box. When your domain got verified the domain will be ready to use and you may create your first free custom email on outlook.com platform. Once the domain got verified you will see a green indicator and active status in the domain dashboard of your account. As shown in the image below Step 4: Create an email id with custom domain Once your account is verified and active you may and click on the domain under which you want to create email/account. Their will be a form asking to fill some info.
Just fill those and create your first email id with custom domain. The important thing is “Account name” in the form. It will be the email id and may have alphanumeric, periods, hyphens and underscore.
After creating the account you may ask user to login and accept terms and conditions. Also their will be an account reset question for your users, which will be asked at first login. Benefits of Microsoft Outlook custom domain over Google Apps!. Microsoft offers these apps for free. Up to 500 users 50 may be added just after signing up. (Now, you can’t get more than 50 accounts per domain).
You may also offer your site visitors to sign up email ids with under your domain. Outlook.com offers unlimited storage. So, you will never required to delete mail. You may also offer maps, skydrive and other services from your domain/sub-domain If you have any query or problem let me know by commenting below. Don’t forget to share this post on Google+, Twitter or Facebook, if you liked it. Quick Tip: If you are now able to receive emails to your newly set up email accounts then make sure that there is no other MX records pointing to @ or the naked domain. I have recently got a chance to log into someone else’s account and fix the issue.
I successfully fixed the issue. It was the wrongly configured.
Please ask all types of Domain Setup, Web Hosting Setup and WordPress related questions to. Article by / /,. Hi anand thank you foe the everything by using your blog’s information i have setup the windows live account and hosted few website in that for email hosting but from last 3 days i am unable to access my windows live admin account as it is saying That “Microsoft account doesn’t exist.
The simple answer is NO! To receive mails to two different servers/services like Google Apps and Microsoft Outlook for custom domains will not be possible. Which means you can’t have user @example.com and Google apps (or whatever) and editor @example.com at Outlook.com.
This is because, email will be designated to highest priority server (unless the server failed to respond). Suppose, Google Apps in this condition if editor @example.com is not configured at Google Apps it will be bounced back. However, you may have 2 separate subdomains for separate service.
Like user @example.com on Google Apps and editor-name @editor.example.com on Outlook. Richard Kitts says.
Hello Anand, I read your interesting post about free email hosting provided by outlook and I would like to seek some suggestions for migrating from zoho (my current email hosting provider) to Outlook. I tried logging into and putting in my domain and selected create a new Microsoft account in your domain, ex:.
And the next page took me to who are you page? And after filling in all detail and putting in my prefered login id as it takes me to the next page to verify the email address? And doesnt give me an option to create the mx records etc. Since I have the email address already active with zoho I could verify my email address and I was able to log in to my email address from outlook but it is still hosted with zoho. I just cant figure out how to move my email hosting completely from Zoho and start afresh on outlook. Gianluca says. Hi Anand, Nice article – what I am trying to do, is to migrate my existing live ID with Skydrive, but without mail service (in fact, my live ID is a local e-mail provider) and I want to: 1) Migrate my current live ID under my newly created custom domain – e.g.
From to 2) be the administrator of custom domains with the same live ID as I would normally use (e.g. ) 3) have active e-mail service over at Outlook com with still the same live ID (e.g. ) This seems to be something really unachievable – do you know, how to approach this? Gianluca.
Hosting Peru says. Anand, Very helpful article, but for some reason, there are some email servers out there that expect an MX record to point to an A or AAAA record, and if they don’t see thatmail is bounced. I migrated from Google Apps yesterday and so far there about four domains to which I can’t sendand that can’t send to me. Here is the bounce message:: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=xxxxxxxx.net type=AAAA: Host not found Unfortunately, there is absolutely no guidance on how to configure an AAAA record at domains.live.com, and I spent about six hours today searching the internet, hoping to find someone who’s done it, and then I could just adapt his configuration with my domains.live.com unique identifier.
Additionally, if I plug xxxxxxxx.net into the DNS Report box at it brings up two FAILS regarding MX and SOA. Thanks for this great article! One problem I’m having is adding e-mails using a custom domain on Outlook.com to Outlook 2013 via POP3 / SMTP. POP3 works fine, but I cannot get SMTP to work under any circumstances I’ve tried. Everything I’ve found seems to say to use Port 587 for smtp.live.com with TLS. But when I do this, it simply doesn’t work. The test fails and I can’t send out any mail (every time a Send/Receive is performed, I get an error message) Any thoughts on why this might be?
Thanks in advance! Owns two domain (www.Mayahotelsindia.com older one) & (www.mayahotels.in the newer one).
USing Gapps mail server for email accounts created on 2. Having 15email accounts on older domain.
3.Our concern is about IMAP limitations of outlook.com 4. If we swtich over old email accounts of mayahotelsindia.com to outlook.com free email server & use self auto forwarding option in outlook.com email server for each individual older email account (e.g. To ) 5.Would there be any issue w.r.t. IMAP sync option in gapps mail server of client machine with other device. Sincerely Yours, Kranti Mohan T: 8774, M:. Joseph Thomas says.
Hi Anand, Thanks for this valuable information. We are using this free email hosting facility of Microsoft domain.
But is there any option to reset the password of an account by an administrator. My current situation I had created an account for the user and user reset the password and change the security question. Now he forget the password and the answer for that security question. Is there any way to reset the password of that user? Thanks in advance for your reply. Many Thanks, Joseph Thomas.
says. Hi there, Great info. Im actually stuck and need your help. I have registered a domain and wish its two email address emails to land in ONE outlook inbox example: both belong to me. So i want them to land in one outlook account.
I have created an account, made changed in Cpanel of the website added these mail addresses on domains.live.com and verified the MX, configured the mail forwarding in the Cpanel. Still the emails tend to bounce. I dont know where im going wrong. Kindly help Regards, Zohaib. David Rios says. Dear Sir, Thanks a lot, your blog really helped me, when I needed most. My email hosting was about to expire in days, fortunately I found ur post & made settings accordingly on DNS Management settings of my domain.
I completed the settings as guided by you. I am able to login to outlook.com with my user id & password. Iam able to send emails to others but, mails from others are not coming to this email. I tested myself with other mails.
I guess, I missed some settings. Pls guide me, what shld I do to get the emails to this inbox. Rgds, Krishna Kumar M. S.
Hi Anandh, I have successfully integrate our domain balajipress.com with live.com custom mail server. But I need one more configuration to set up.
For example, if I click this link mail.sigmacorporatesolutions.sg automatically it will go to outlook.com. Like that if I click this mail.balajipress.com some error is coming.
Can you let me know with the exact DNS records and values which I want to set for my domain, so that I can do set them for my domain and then it will start resolving accordingly. Great Article Anand!
I have setup everything as instructed here. It says that the domain is active and I have also created multiple email accounts. However on every email address I have created I have huge delay in receiving emails.
I am also able to send and receive emails however If I send emails to someone or if someone sends me an email almost in more than 90% cases it takes around 1 hour – 2 hours for the mails to reach inbox. Can you please suggest how to rectify this. Thanks in advance. Javed Malik says. I have problem with my inbox messages. If someone send me a email he can`t to do this. He get this message: Technical details of permanent failure: Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain us-jim.com by mail.us-jim.com.
Domain ownership had been pending for days even though I set up everything right. None of the Microsoft guys was able to answer me why my proof of ownership didn’t go through even though all email addresses are working. Today, I decided to delete the other MX record in my DNS, set to be secondary or backup MX record.
And within minutes my domain ownership was recognized by live.com. Quite silly, huh?
Why don’t they mention it on the instruction? Why don’t their support stuff have this information? Maybe they are not expecting some smart asses like us that would use a backup MX. In anycase, why would Live.com want their MX record to be the only one? And why does that have to do with proof of domain ownership? My impression is that Google tries to make things simple; Microsoft tries to make things complicated!. Dani Chedid says.
HI Anand, I have a domain registered with bigrock, and wanted a custom email service from outlook, i have made the necessary settings in my DNS configuration, but just wanted to know that on the microsoft configuration page it was saying TTL should be 3600, but my domain registrar does not allows less than 7200, will that cause my domain not recognized by microsoft. I have created the MX entry by 10.25 and setting the TTL to 7200 (2 hours), means the propogation should have took effect till 12.25 but i am unable to get my domain verified even after waiting for 3 hours.
Can you please help me with the same, Thanks and Regards, Abbas Electricwala. As far as I can see this is a program for EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS only. In the Microsoft Terms of Use (Consumer) it says “This Agreement is between your educational institution and Microsoft Institution must be recognized by Microsoft, in its sole discretion, as a legitimate non-profit enterprise focused primarily on providing educational services to students or alumni services to graduates.” You should probably mention this in your article.
Microsoft would be well within its rights to pull your service if you’re not a school or uni. Hi, Today on 22 Jan 2014 i just got your post on google it was all about my problem and i just following steps by step procedure, anand sir i need to setup my domain for the same, as per information shared by you i have setup my domain with microsoft and i need to know that how can i use these email addresses on my mobile for example:. I want to configure this on my adroid phone and want to assist my customer on the go. Please help me and i have updated MX records andp priority was 5, is it fine?
Dear Sir I’m not able to verify pls help. Below is the massage: Mail setup (required) To set up mail and prove ownership of this domain, you must create an MX record through your domain registrar. Use the following settings: DNS record type: MX Host: cookmytrip.in MX server: 6f89a77d0b.pamx1.hotmail.com TTL: 3600 or 1 hour Priority: 10 (or High priority) More information Prove domain ownership (optional) If you would like to prove the ownership of domain and create users without setting up mail, you can use one of the following methods for up to 30 days. After 30 days, you will need to set up an MX record for mail routing as shown above. If your domain registrar allows you to create TXT records, use these settings: DNS record type: TXT Host: cookmytrip.in Value: v=msv1 t=6f89a77d0b More information If your domain registrar allows you to create MX records, use these settings: DNS record type: MX Host: cookmytrip.in Value: 6f89a77d0b.msv1.invalid Priority: Higher value than existing records, or Low priority.
More information Server trust (recommended) Create a TXT record to allow other mail servers to trust email originating from your domain. Also known as sender ID configuration, this setting will help prevent your mail from being marked as junk mail. Use the following settings: DNS record type: TXT Host: cookmytrip.in Value: v=spf1 include:hotmail.com all TTL: 3600 or 1 hour (if requested) More information Messenger configuration (recommended) To federate Messenger with other compatible networks, you need to create the following SRV record in DNS. DNS record type: SRV Service: sipfederationtls.tcp.cookmytrip.in Protocol: tcp Domain Name: cookmytrip.in Priority: 10 (or High priority) Weight: 2 Port: 5061 Target: federation.messenger.msn.com More information.
says. Hi Anand, thanks for posting the inital article. This was very detailed and helped me to get my first domain migrated in realy short time. I have just finished adding my domain via and I have changed the MX record. The domain is now verified. I am however struggling with three things.
1) Can I somehow add a user like to an existing outlook.com account (trying to add this as an alias is giving me the error that I am not allowed to add an alias from this domain). Note: The account I use as admin for my domain at domains.live.com is the outlook.com account I would like to add the alias to (not sure if this is making it easier or worse). Also my domain is setup as an open domain as I thought this might get me around some restictions. 2) What is going to happen if I add a second domain. Can I use aliases from multiple domans within one of my accounts or do I need to create one new account for each domain?
Thanks for all the effort you have put into this so far and probably for helping me on this question 😉 Cheers Chris. Ali says.
Hello Anand, After do necessary setting for welcometiles.com I can’t receive mail. Able to send mail. PFB bounce mail: Sub:Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender This is the mail system at host imx1.my-hosting-panel.com. I’m sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It’s attached below.
For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message.
The mail system: host 204.93.172.6204.93.172.6 said: 550 No such user here (in reply to RCPT TO command) Final-Recipient: rfc822; Original-Recipient: rfc822; Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 Remote-MTA: dns; 204.93.172.6 Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 No such user here. says. Thank you for your post. I successfully made my custom domain email with the outlook service. Now I am trying to add an account with the created email in Microsoft Outlook program (not webpage). I entered like below in the form: Your Name: My Name E-mail Address: Incoming mail server: pop3.live.com Outgoing mail server: smtp.live.com User Name: Password:. Require logon using SPA: Yes —————– But both of incoming and outgoing servers are not passed by Account Setting Test.
I tried 25 and 587 port for smpt and 110 and 995 port for pop3 What am I missing? Need your help on the issue explained below: I’ve the domain moneymantraloans.com. I am trying to setup email hosting with outlook.com but getting an error as below: “This domain name can’t be used because it contains a protected word or inappropriate language.
Please contact support if you feel this is not the case.” Please guide me what to do to resolve this issue. If you’ve already explained this issue in your previous articles; please provide me with the relevant link of that page. Thanks in advance. Tracy says.
If your domain is registered on Outlook.com for free email service and If you are using pirated version of Microsoft Office, then soon you will end up paying 6000-13000Rs per installation copy. I recently got email from Bertelsmann, Noida on Behalf of Microsoft and they asked me to provide them with invoice copies of Microsoft Office else they will Send a legal notice for using pirated version. After a week long conversation I had to buy 4 copies of Microsoft office 2013 Business version each costing 220 $. So beware of free stuff, you will slowly get entangled into a big mess. Having said that I am not supporting piracy in any possible way.It is just that the cost of original software is very high for a small scale businesses in India. I have setup custom domain email with Outlook.com, but now am unable to add anymore addresses. My domain name is registered with Goddady and they allow email forwarding.
I’m hosted on a third party and I have an MX record setup for Outlook.com. Looks like I need to add MX record for Godaddy in order for email forwarding to work.
Do you know if it is possible for me to create more email addresses on godaddy and forward those to the custom domain addresses i have setup on outlook.com? Can i have an MX record for Outlook and another record for Godaddy? So far i haven’t been able to get forwarding and my custom domain emails on outlook.com to work together. Is this even possible? Outlook.com no longer allow to change in Custom domain setup for free accounts. In order to get more email address with the service you will need to upgrade your account to Office360.
Remember, this will be irreversible process. Once you upgrade your account you will not be able to downgrade to free account. Godaddy mail forwarding will forward all your mails to a single email id.
And yes in this case you will need to change MX records and point it to GoDaddy MX server. In this case you will not receive any mail to your Custom domain email hosting at Outlook.com. You may need some custom filter and tricks to forward these mails to separate email ids.
But there will be string attached. If you need up to 10 (or twentyfive if you can invite 3 more users) accounts then. If you are happy with a good will be your choice. It will allow to add upto 1000 free email accounts. Rest services are not so reliable in terms of security breach. But you may also give your 3rd party webhosting a shot, i believe it will offer plenty of free account.
Though outgoing mail delivery will not be good (if it’s some kind of shared hosting). Ravi Chandra says. Your existing emails will be absolutely safe. FYI you may get some delay in email services or may be some emails can be bounced back if you change domain registrar.
There is no relation between web hosting and email hosting, unless you made any changes in DNS server or domain registrar. If godaddy is also your domain registrar and you are switching your web host including domain, then you my get some down time in email hosting. PS: Your existing emails WILL BE SAFE in all these cases. Thank you Mr. Anand Kumar for the article and all the help and support you are providing. I have a problem, and hoping you have a solution.
I had domain bought from enom and registered with windows live, I could access my looking like a hotmail account for years. Then, my domain name registration expired, and I had to re-buy the domain name again but lost the configuration in it. I can still access my email account, can send, but does not receive.
Do you think there is a way to get the MX records again and use your guide to activate things again? Your advice is very much appreciated, Best Regards Q. Ross Edward Legaspi says.
Siebel Innovation Pack 2016: Process of Adding Custom Objects Process of Adding Custom Objects To add a custom object in Siebel CRM Desktop, you do the following:. The example in this topic adds an Activity object to Microsoft Outlook. In Siebel CRM, this object is named Action. To add this object to Outlook, you modify the siebelbasicmapping.xml file.
For more information about:. Overview of XML files that you modify in this example, see. Details about tags in XML files that you modify in this example, see Siebel CRM Desktop for Microsoft Outlook Administration Guide Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.