Can I Use outlook.com to send mail from a custom address?

[Sir Topham Hatt]

I use a simple email forwarder on my website cPanel to forward email to a Gmail address and as Gmail allows you to set custom outgoing SMTP servers, then I can silently send and receive email through Gmail, but to the external user, it is all direct from my website.

Basically, this allows me to send mail from a [email protected] address without the email being received from "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]", it just says "From: [email protected]". If I didn't use the outgoing servers, then it would email with the "on behalf of" rubbish.

I've already added my custom address to my outlook.com account.

However outlook.com / hotmail / live mail doesn't seem to have the option to set custom outgoing servers. I've heard the only way to get round this is setting up live domains on my domain name, which is all great but will make it more difficult if and when I decide to change primary email management (IE, go back to Gmail).

Is there anything else I can do?

[metallithrax]

Why not stay as you are? Is there a reason to change to outlook.com if things are working at the minute?

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Because I like outlook.coms interface better than Gmails?

[articuno1au]

domains.live.com

You can have hotmail actually host your email.

That's what I do for all my mail sites and servers.

[Calum Veteran]

I do what articuno1au does. It's great. I can login using the email address for my domain, and email sent to that address is hosted there :)

[metallithrax]

Because I like outlook.coms interface better than Gmails?

That's a fair enough answer. :D

[Sir Topham Hatt]

So just to make sure, if I sign up to domains.live.com (heard of before but seemed like too much work), then I can send email from "[email protected]" without it arriving as "[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]"?

Also, does anyone know if Live Domains work with the Hotmail Android app?

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Okay, I think I've done it but I have a couple of questions:

Signed in as [email protected] and set up live domains.

CPanel > MX Entry >

I changed the record which was 0 / mysite.com to 0 / <string of random>.pam1.hotmail.com

Is that right?

EDIT: Seems not as I tried sending an email to that address which then came back undeliverable :/ Although is that because I haven't set up a special user with that email address through Windows Live Domains?

CPanel > Advanced DNS Zone Editor >

I added two TXT domains:

domain.mysite.com. / 3600 / v=msv1 t=<random letters and numbers

domaintrust.mysite.com. / 3600 / <the include "~hotmail.com" thing>

Is this the correct entries here?

Windows Live Domains tells me it's active and okay.

Do I have to set up a special user?

I am signed in as [email protected], so do I have to create separate users (like [email protected]) or can I just send mail from [email protected] which is added as an additional address, which will then be received as coming from that address (IE, no "on behalf of").

EDIT: Seems not again, I sent a mail which then said "on behalf of".

So basically, Outlook.com doesn't support me signed in as "[email protected]" sending mail as a confirmed "[email protected]" without sticking "on behalf of" on the email.

Not exactly a difficult request but no wonder so many people continue to use Gmail :/