I thought it was about time people could email me at an email address with the same domain name as my blog OxfordSBSGuy.com.
So after a little research here is how to do it.
First create an account with Outlook.com if you don’t already have one.
Login to domains.live.com with your Outlook.com account, and you’ll be presented with the following screen.
Click on the Get Started link under Custom Domains.
On the next page enter the domain you want to receive email for and click Continue.
The next page will show you your domain settings which will include an MX record, and TXT records for Sender Policy Framework (SPF) record and proof of domain ownership.
Make a not of these settings as we’ll need to enter them into WordPress.com
In WordPress.com go to your Dashboard, Store, Domains.
From your list of domains. Click on Add Email.
Choose Other as you email provider from the drop down list and then click on the Add DNS Records button.
Enter your DNS settings you documented from Outlook.com into WordPress, and click the Save DNS Records button.
WordPress allows five types of records: MX, TXT, CNAME, A, and SRV. The format for MX and TXT record types are shown below. TTL is set automatically.
MX <pref> <host>
TXT <text>
Sample records
MX 10 MAILSERVER.DOMAIN.COM.
TXT v=spf1 include:mailserver.domain.com ~all
The email setup in WordPress is now complete.
All you that you need to do now is create an email account in your domain, and for that we need to go back to domains live.com.
Select your domain, Member accounts and click Add.
Enter the account name and details, click OK and you’re done.
You now have an email account setup in the same domain as your WordPress.com blog that uses the Outlook.com interface and web access.
Note, at the time of setting this up, although you can login to Outlook.com, you got redirected to the old Live mail interface. To get the new clean Outlook.com interface click one of the upgrade to Outlook.com buttons that you’ll see on most pages once you have logged in.
Thanks for the instructions for this. Do you know if it is possible to set up a catchall email handler. At the moment I assume you just get Carl.Gray@OxfordSBSGuy.com, and all the other addresses e.g. contact@OxfordSBSGuy.com will bounce. Paul
Hi Paul, from domains.live.com you can add additional member to your domain, but i don’t think it is possible to create a catchall address.
Thanks. I added one address successfully by adding an extra member to the domain. Having searched more, I also conclude it isn’t possible to have a catchall, although hopefully Microsoft will see the need to support this sometime in future.
I set up a member account on my domain. I created a simple password for a first login. The member cannot login using the password I gave here. How do I change that password so she can use the account. In Gmail this is so easy. All you do is “manage this domain” and any user password can be changed,
It looks like the only options are delete or suspend. As the account is new I would delete it and recreate it. Not ideal, but i can’t see another way of resetting the password. If you find out how drop me a line.
It says if you delete it it can never be set again with that user name…
you have to ask microsoft for reset password right… just ask to their support or leave a message in their forum … http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/admin-wlsecurity/enable-password-reset-in-windows-live-admin-center/ced29cd9-822f-4f49-a35e-72b9f28e917d
Thanks for the info and link Lukino2000.
I followed the instructions described above. I change the MX settings on my host provider however now when I go to the Windows live admin center and try to do a refresh on my domain it says that the services have been suspended. Is there anyway I can get this corrected. The weird thing is is that email to and from Outlook.com using this domain name works fine I just can’t create new mail accounts because of the suspension.