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Outlook.com's equivalent offering, https://domains.live.com https://domains.live.com, is free (Hotmail also offered it, but they've changed the branding). I've
by benaiah 14y ago
Outlook.com's equivalent offering, https://domains.live.com https://domains.live.com, is free (Hotmail also offered it, but they've changed the branding). I've been running my email on there for the better part of a decade. To those who point at Office 365, that's similar but different, and it costs money.
If you want a guide, this one seems pretty good:
http://www.omegaweb.com/2012/09/how-to-configure-a-custom-domain-with-outlook-com/ http://www.omegaweb.com/2012/09/how-to-configure-a-custom-do...
Between the mistaken despair over having no good free alternatives to Google Apps and the platitudes and awe over the Gmail/Google Drive integration (which Hotmail/Skydrive have had the exact equivalent of for years) a couple weeks back, I'm starting to wonder why nobody here, when they are all quite tech-literate, seems to have any clue about Microsoft's honestly rather impressive cloud offering.
Most likely they're all in denial.
- 18pfsmt 14y agoWhen I last looked, IMAP was not available on the free custom domains. Is that still the case?
- benaiah 14y agoIMAP is not, but the superior Exchange ActiveSync protocol is, through m.outlook.com - despite the name, it's just Exchange, so it works anywhere. See http://help.outlook.com/en-gb/140/bb896613.aspx http://help.outlook.com/en-gb/140/bb896613.aspx for more details.
- davidcollantes 14y ago"Superior", ha!
- benaiah 14y agoErm, yes, it is superior, as it has all the capability of IMAP and more. See this: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2007/07/10/3403386.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2007/07/10/34033....
- RaSoJo 14y agoThanks for sharing. This ought to come in handy. I for one had no clue about such an offering.
- thisisdallas 14y agoI just read a couple of blog posts saying that there is a 500 user limit per domain on outlook.com. Is that right??
- benaiah 14y agoIt appears that there is, but this is still more than twice as many as the free version Google Apps offered even at the beginning, and far more than it offered when it closed. The closest MS equivalent to paid Google Apps is Office 365 (it offers more than Apps does, but it's actually cheaper on the basic plan), which has its own limits and pricing structure.
- ferdinandp 14y agosorry but honestly, i aint like subdomain (subdomain.live.com) let's just drop it.