How to setup your Domain Email with Windows Mail services ?

In this article we can tell you step by step about how to configure or setup your Domain Email with Windows Mail services, outlook or windows 10 mail.

How to configure or setup your Domain Email account with Windows Mail

configure Domain Email

Step 1 ⇒ Before setup the account prove the ownership for your domain (yourdomainname.com)

Step 2 ⇒ Register link : https://domains.live.com/Signup/SignupDomain.aspx

Step 3 ⇒ After login you must create an MX record through your domain registrar.

Step 4 ⇒ Use the following settings

DNS record type MX
Host yourdomainname.com
MX server e5783262d14fde4b82a66955b06357.pamx1.hotmail.com
TTL 3600 or 1 hour
Priority 10 (or High priority)

If your domain registrar allows you to create MX records, use these settings:

DNS record type MX
Host mydomain.com
Value e5783262d14fde4b82a66955b06357.msv1.invalid
Priority Higher value than existing records, or Low priority.

Step 5 ⇒  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 mydomain.com
Value v=spf1 include:hotmail.com ~all
TTL 3600 or 1 hour (if requested)

Step 6 ⇒  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.mydomain.com
Protocol _tcp
Domain Name mydomain.com
Priority 10 (or High priority)
Weight 2
Port 5061
Target federation.messenger.msn.com

Step 7 ⇒ Configuration detail in outlook

Username username@yourdomainname.com
Password password
Port 995
Security Enable SSL
Server pop3.live.com

Outgoing Settings

Username username@yourdomainname.com
Password password
Port 587
Security Enable TLS
Server smtp.live.com
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