How To Set Up A Personal Email

Every bit a benefit of your Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, you tin can create a personalized email address that's associated with your Outlook.com mailbox. For instance, yourname@example.com.

Getting started

Sign in to your premium feature settings in Outlook.com
Under Personalized email address, select Get Started.

Tip:If y'all have a Microsoft 365 Family subscription, people you lot've shared the subscription with can likewise set upwardly a personalized email accost with your connected domain. After you've set upward your domain, people you've shared with will run across an pick to add a personalized e-mail address in the premium features section of Outlook settings.

Oft asked questions

Yes, all your e-mail is automatically delivered to the aforementioned inbox in Outlook.com, regardless of which of your electronic mail addresses it's sent to.

No. Nosotros strongly recommend against setting your personalized email address as your master allonym for signing in. Doing this can create problems with signing in or even sending and receiving e-mail.

You can all the same set up your personalized email address as your default "From" address:

Go to your Outlook.com Email alias settings.
Set the default From address from the drib downwards of address available.

Set up FAQs

Subscribers to Microsoft 365 Family or Microsoft 365 Personal are eligible to set upwardly a personalized email address. Note that setup isn't available when you lot're using a mobile web browser.

Go to your Microsoft profile and selectEdit proper name.

Tip:You can too add together a moving picture to your Microsoft profile past selecting Add a motion-picture show.

When you create a new personalized e-mail address, that address becomes the default "From" address for all your email messages.

When composing a new message, choose the downward arrow next to the From box to see your available e-mail address options.

You can change your default "From" accost in the Outlook.com settings.

Get to your Outlook.com Electronic mail alias settings.
Set the default From address from the drop downwardly of address available.

If you lot don't already own a domain, you'll need to buy a new ane from GoDaddy. New domains typically cost between $five and $25 per year. You will pay for your domain directly with GoDaddy.

No, this isn't supported. If you desire to create multiple aliases on a single mailbox with your domain, we propose purchasing a Microsoft 365 Business organization Basic subscription.

Subscription FAQs

If you abolish your Microsoft 365 subscription, y'all will no longer be able to send or receive email with Outlook.com using your personalized email address. However, you won't lose any existing e-mail.

Equally long equally you proceed to pay for your domain with GoDaddy, you can always reactivate your personalized electronic mail address past re-subscribing to Microsoft 365 and going to Settings > Premium > Features and selecting Get started.

No. Yous can't use the same email address for a commercial Microsoft 365 email business relationship and a consumer Microsoft 365 or Outlook.com business relationship.

Domain FAQs

If yous cancel your domain with GoDaddy, you will no longer be able to send or receive email with Outlook.com using your personalized electronic mail address. Yet, you lot won't lose any existing email.

You ain your domain and GoDaddy is the registrar that manages it for you. You lot tin can set up up a website with your domain or transfer it to another registrar if yous prefer. However, if yous transfer your domain away from GoDaddy, yous volition no longer be able to ship or receive email with Outlook.com using your personalized email address.

At the moment, we but support connecting domains managed past GoDaddy with Outlook.com.

If you have a Microsoft 365 Family subscription and a domain connected to Outlook.com, the other people that you lot've shared the subscription with can set up their ain personalized electronic mail addresses using your domain.

If you remove your domain from Outlook.com, cancel your Microsoft 365 Family subscription, or remove a person from your Microsoft 365 Family sharing grouping, that person will lose the ability to send and receive electronic mail with their personalized electronic mail address.

If you don't keep your domain name registration active with your domain registrar, you'll lose ownership of your domain name. If that happens, the registrar might sell your domain name to another heir-apparent. If you lose ownership, you won't exist able to use any of the personalized email addresses associated with your domain name, even if your Outlook.com Premium subscription remains agile.

Warning:You won't exist able to send or receive whatever e-mail using the email addresses associated with your domain name if your domain name registration becomes inactive. If your domain registrar sells your domain name to another buyer, the new owner tin legally access email sent to any of the email addresses associated with your onetime domain name and redirect electronic mail to their own servers.

No, Outlook.com currently does non support DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) or Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC).

Troubleshooting FAQs

Go to Settings > Premium > Personalized electronic mail accost and cheque the status of your domain.
- If there is no Personalized email address tab, information technology ways GoDaddy did non successfully connect your domain to Outlook.com. Go to Settings > Premium > Features and select Get started.
- Select the I already ain a GoDaddy domain option and follow the steps in the procedure.
If the status bar is yellow, you simply need to select Create Address and finish setting up your personalized email address.
If the status is red, it means that the connectedness of the domain to Outlook.com was not successful. To fix this:
- First, you need to remove the domain from Outlook.com before trying again. Select the Cancel setup button.
- Refresh your browser, then go to Settings > Premium > Features and select Get started.
- Select the I already own a GoDaddy domain option and follow the steps in the process.
If the status is grey, GoDaddy is withal configuring your domain.
- Cheque back in a few hours. The condition should modify to green or yellow.
- If, later 24 hours, the status is greyness or reddish, select Cancel setup to try reconnecting.
- Later selecting Cancel setup, refresh your browser window. Then go to Premium > Features and select Go started.
- Select the I already ain a GoDaddy domain choice and follow the steps in the process.

This means that the address or alias is already tied to a Microsoft business relationship. If y'all already have a personalized email address with a different provider and are now trying to import that domain into Outlook.com:

Go to https://account.live.com/names/Manage.
If you're trying to add a personalized electronic mail address that'due south already listed equally an alias on your Microsoft business relationship, practise 1 of the following:
- If your personalized email address was listed as your chief alias, you should showtime make an @outlook.com e-mail address your primary alias, then select Remove next to your personalized email address.
- If your personalized e-mail address wasn't listed as your principal allonym, select Remove next to that address.
Later on you consummate the preceding steps, become dorsum to your inbox and select Settings > Mail service > Sync electronic mail. Make sure your personalized email accost is no longer listed under Set default From address. Then follow the personalized electronic mail address setup process. The error should no longer appear.
If y'all've completed steps one-iii and are nevertheless seeing this error, go to https://outlook.alive.com, sign in, and enter the personalized email address you desire to use. If you're prompted to enter a password, information technology means that the address is tied to a dissimilar Microsoft business relationship.
If yous own the other Microsoft account, sign in to it and go to https://business relationship.alive.com/names/Manage and do one of the following:
- If your personalized email address was listed every bit your primary alias, you should first make an @outlook.com electronic mail address your primary allonym, and then select Remove next to your personalized email accost.
- If your personalized email address wasn't listed every bit your primary alias, select Remove next to that accost.
Sign out of the account. Then sign back in, complete whatever required verification steps, and make sure that you can still send and receive e-mail on this business relationship with an address that'south non your personalized email address. You should also make sure that your personalized e-mail address is no longer listed equally an available From address on this account.
Finally, sign in to the account you'd like to use with your personalized electronic mail address and consummate the setup procedure. The error should no longer appear.

This means that there has been a problem calculation the address you chose as an alias to your Microsoft account. We're working on adding descriptive error messages and suggestions for how to solve the problem. Known issues that yous should bank check are:

Go to https://account.live.com/names/Manage. If you currently have more 10 aliases tied to your Microsoft account, you'll demand to remove some before you lot can add a personalized email accost.
Go to https://account.microsoft.com/security and select UPDATE INFO. If the alias you lot're trying to add is currently listed on the page, y'all'll need to supercede it with a different accost earlier yous tin finish creating your personalized email accost.
If the business relationship you're trying to create a personalized email address for belongs to a child, you lot may non exist able to consummate the procedure. We're working on a solution for this issue.

Become to https://dcc.godaddy.com/domains/ select your domain, and then select "Manage DNS" towards the lesser of the screen. Beginning, confirm that your nameservers are managed by GoDaddy. If your nameservers are managed elsewhere, change your settings on this page to apply GoDaddy nameservers. This should automatically set the CNAME tape beneath.

If you are already using GoDaddy's default nameservers, confirm the post-obit DNS record is fix. If non, select "Add" and and then create the following record:

Type: CNAME

Name: _domainconnect

Value: _domainconnect.gd.domaincontrol.com

TTL: 1 Hour

Go to https://outlook.alive.com and select the diamond icon on the toolbar to open the premium section of Outlook settings.

If you don't see a diamond icon in your inbox (and you do see ads), it ways your Microsoft 365 subscription has expired. Go to https://account.microsoft.com/services to re-activate your subscription, then reconnect your domain using the steps in "Get started".
If you don't see a "Personalized electronic mail accost" tab underneath "Features" and "Security", information technology means your personalized email accost was removed from Outlook.
1. If you originally fix the domain, your Microsoft 365 Family unit subscription likely expired. Go to https://account.microsoft.com/services to re-activate your subscription, and then reconnect your domain using the steps in "Get started".
2. If someone shared a Microsoft 365 Family subscription with you, their subscription may have expired, or they may have removed the domain from Outlook. Contact the owner of the Microsoft 365 Family subscription and ask them to reconnect the domain.
If the "Personalized email address" tab has a red status bar, your domain may accept expired. Confirm with GoDaddy that your domain is even so active.
1. If your domain is active with GoDaddy, selectAbolish setup andrefresh your browser window. So become to Premium > Features and select Get started.

Nevertheless need assistance?

If yous need help transferring or setting up your custom domain, contact support beneath. Exist sure to mention "Premium" in your message.

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