After far too long I've finally nabbed a domain for myself. Using the standard forwarding of email and an iframe redirect with cloaking seemed... a bit off. A quick search led me to Google apps who now charge for hosting an email domain, and to Microsoft who don't using mail.live (outlook.com) as the base.
Head over to https://domains.live.com and sign in, you'll get to the Domain settings mail setup.
The instructions are fairly straight forward, the only issue I had was configuring my dns settings via my provider. The advanced control panel on domains4less.co.nz had an odd layout that I had to get my head around.
Logging in, select domain templates from the menu and add a new template.
There is a selection of A records and MX records added by default, but following the instructions from MS I removed all the MX and set a single record prefixed with @, 10 priority and the address of the server (blah.hotmail.com in this case).
I then added the TXT record as they advised using the same prefix @ as the MX.
domains4less updates once every 30 minutes so I waited till the next tick and hit refresh on live.com. Nothing.
Waiting another 15 minutes for the settings to roll out properly and success! I was then able to configure the email account I wanted and logged into the familiar looking site of that account.
Now to continue setting up with an azure site.
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