Outlook.com, hosting custom domain

[ChristTheGreat]

Hey guys,

Since november, I have registred my company. I have an hosting at godaddy, using pop email connected to my gmail account. Pain, gmail is very slow to retreive pop email (about 30 to 60 mins)

So I have found that with outlook.com, you can configure it to be the email hoster, by changing your MX. Anyone is using it? how good it is?

Thanks for any comment about it.

 

[remixedcat]

I use it and it's very easy. Just plug in the MX when directed.

You do it slightly different by adding pamx1.hotmail.com records.

For example I use Cloudflare as my DNS provider as it also adds a CDN and this is how you insert the record:

It's also nice because you don't use up your server space on emails and it also frees up the CPU to do other things. Also you don't have to mess with your own spam controls, etc. Outlook does it all for you.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Thanks for your feedback. yeah as per MX, I know, network tech inside

So their service is quite good? I was waiting to get maybe an exchange hosting, but with this, fuck that

 

[remixedcat]

This is also totally free and pretty easy, thing is the outlook.com android app is a bit annoying, however you can use other clients with it.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

yeah, using activesync with stock emaill app?

 

[remixedcat]

Yeah. It does work, however it does have way too many wakelocks even on non aggressive sync settings and drains battery so I don't use it.

 

[ChristTheGreat]

okay. I'll see this xD

Thanks man

 

[remixedcat]

You're welcome!!

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Using ActiveSYnc, it works perfectly. I have to see, this service is amazing.

 

[remixedcat]

Good to hear that.