Best alternative to google apps email for your custom domain, Its time to move from limited 10 accounts google apps and Get outlook.com (live.com) free email service from Microsoft for your domain with 500+ free email accounts. When google started google apps for domain they were offering 5000 accounts for a domain slowly they reduced to 2000, than to 1000, than 200, then 100, then 50 and finally to mere 10 who knows one day they may reduce it to 3 or 5 update: Google apps for standard edition is not free anymore, google is moving from "User Centric" to "Business Centric" forcing small business and organizations to buy their email service which was once free.
But many don't know there exist a free, reliable and better email service from Microsoft where you can get 500 email accounts for your domain for free whats more it even as calendar, contacts, docs and MSN Messenger service similar to gtalk integration a complete email and cloud service that's not it you can even upgrade for free to get outlook.com like web-mail interface.
So how to signup?
Its free and easy, just Login to http://domains.live.com with your hotmail or live email id and create a admin account for your website/domain by clicking "Add Domain" Button as show in below pic
How to create mx, txt and spf records?
Once you add your website and accepts agreement? you will be automatically redirected to settings page where you will be given mx record enteries for email handling, txt record entry for proving domain ownership and spf record entries for email authentication see below pic just add entries in your domain admin panel wait for atleast 30mins and then click on refresh, most of the time added domain entries takes 10mins to 4hrs to get reflected and detected on web.
How to access email from web browser ?
For that you need to create a Cname record so that you can access email from your web subdomain and redirect it to "mail.live.com" or "outlook.com" so that your custom subdomain "mail.yourdomain.com" will be used to access email.
Once all the entries in your domain control panel is updated wait for 30mins and then enter mail.yourwebsite.com in browser it should automatically redirected to live login and you could access your email as shown in below pic by entering full email address and password
Once all the entries in your domain control panel is updated wait for 30mins and then enter mail.yourwebsite.com in browser it should automatically redirected to live login and you could access your email as shown in below pic by entering full email address and password
Main Features and Migration Changes you face while switch from Gmail to outlook.com hosting service:
--> Outlook offers unlimited space and 25mb attachment size where as gmail offers 10gb space and 25mb attachments, one plus point in outlook.com if your email attachment is more than 25mb it will automatically sent via skydrive
--> Gmail Supports both IMAP and POP, where as Outlook.com supports only pop to access mail via webclients but if you are accessing emails via mobile you can use exchange active sync which acts like imap with push email and whats more it even supports instant synchronization of calendar and contacts so that you will not loose your pim details.
--> In outlook you can recover permanently deleted emails that is if you empty trash accidentally and you lost on of your important email dont know how long you can retrieve deleted emails where as this facility is not available in gmail.
--> Both Google and outlook will offer online space where you can store large files and share it with your friends if it is more than 25mb.
--> In both you get messenger integration gtalk in case of Google apps and MSN messenger in case of live domains.
So with head to head collision with similar features both have its strengths and weakness now Google has limited its standard account to 10, Microsoft's live for domains look more attractive and better deal compared to Google apps standard. by the way use it you never return to gmail for email hosting.
--> Gmail Supports both IMAP and POP, where as Outlook.com supports only pop to access mail via webclients but if you are accessing emails via mobile you can use exchange active sync which acts like imap with push email and whats more it even supports instant synchronization of calendar and contacts so that you will not loose your pim details.
--> In outlook you can recover permanently deleted emails that is if you empty trash accidentally and you lost on of your important email dont know how long you can retrieve deleted emails where as this facility is not available in gmail.
--> Both Google and outlook will offer online space where you can store large files and share it with your friends if it is more than 25mb.
--> In both you get messenger integration gtalk in case of Google apps and MSN messenger in case of live domains.
So with head to head collision with similar features both have its strengths and weakness now Google has limited its standard account to 10, Microsoft's live for domains look more attractive and better deal compared to Google apps standard. by the way use it you never return to gmail for email hosting.
1 comments:
good morning
there is a way in microsoft live to create a web page ?
thanks Alberto
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