Using Outlook.com with your own Web Domain

August 4, 2013 10.7k views
gencersan
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gencersan
There is a guide on http://www.labnol.org/internet/setup-outlook-on-custom-domain/24699/ to use your own domain on outlook.com to send and receive emails, but I don't know how to set those settings on Digital Ocean. Can anyone help?
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gencersan August 4, 2013
Here are the settings required:
http://i.imgur.com/nrvoRnA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iYOD3i0.jpg

But I don't know what to enter where.
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kamaln7 MOD August 4, 2013
Please see my answer (May 15th, 2013 18:29) on https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-do-i-setup-windows-live-email-for-digital-ocean
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gencersan August 4, 2013
Thanks a lot! Works like a charm.
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kamaln7 MOD August 5, 2013
Awesome! Glad to hear that :]
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cliveua January 28, 2014
Hi Kamal, I've tried the instructions you gave in your answer, but it still hasn't worked for me. I have waited for more than 48 hours but still no success. I even deleted the outlook domain and did it all over again, it's been 24 hours now but nothing yet.

There's a part of the instruction on that says "Mail setup (required)" and has these settings:

DNS record type: MX
Host: 500shops.com
MX server: aac5d12cbb3f4dafbd41668a303983.pamx1.hotmail.com
TTL: 3600 or 1 hour
Priority: 10 (or High priority)

You didn't seem to touch on that part. Your answer details on the other parts except that part, could this be the problem?

Could you help?

Thanks, Clive
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kamaln7 MOD January 28, 2014
Your domain apparently has an MX record already: 
500shops.com.		1745	IN	MX	5 aac5d12cbb3f4dafbd41668a303983.msv1.invalid.
Try replacing aac5d12cbb3f4dafbd41668a303983.msv1.invalid. with aac5d12cbb3f4dafbd41668a303983.pamx1.hotmail.com.—does that fix it?
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paulsmith March 2, 2014
Have you heard of this webmail? https://www.thexyz.com/webmail/
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