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Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by vezycash »

blinkingled wrote: post #11

They should kill entirety of Outlook.com. It's been years and they can't get the spam under control. Nor the absolutely garbage UI.

The SWEEP feature of outlook is the ultimate email spam feature. If you've never used it, try it and your spam problem will be poof in a few clicks.

It's a pity sweep is desktop web only.

Their email alias feature is cool, allows you to change your login ID retroactively.

I wish they'd take it a step further by allowing me to set a login-only ID e.g. the login ID cannot be used to send nor receive emails (security by obscurity).

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by braingenious »

D13Fd wrote: post #57
blinkingled wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No I meant the free Outlook.com web based email and everything to do with that.

Then I would say "Outlook.com" instead of "the entirety of Outlook" because they are very different things.

I personally was not confused because I am aware that Outlook.com is a web based email service and Outlook is a piece of software.

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by chrjxnandns »

Destitute wrote: post #68
smileybarry wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had the first rollout of that feature, where it was just "" and only on the web. It was weird, being able to "like" email messages but no one saw it unless they opened the web client. But that's nothing compared to "the new Outlook"[1] being a webview around the Outlook.com UI library . It looks really nice in concepts but once installed it just feels like a browser in a frame: there's a window-sized splash screen…

I would be shocked if the new Outlook was Electron and not WebView2. Is there any confirmation on that or is Electron the new "Rollerblade" and "Band-aid" for wrappers?

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Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by the_lucifer »

skinnymuch wrote: post #70
thiht wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It supports it since iOS 15 if I’m not mistaken (last year release) This is probably the best dollar I spend every month

Email isn’t done on the OS though. A server is doing it. Is there a reason Apple hides this behind an iOS version?

The user above you was mistaken. You can flip it from the web settings. I was running it on my iOS 14.6 device for a while.

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by smileybarry »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #63
smileybarry wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It can, but then pricing bothers me. I just got so used to G Suite free that I don't want to tack on a $10/month subscription for forwarding. (It's silly given the myriad of other subscriptions I'm fine with, though)

You're not paying for forwarding, you're paying for someone to host a whole email stack for you (and the associated dev work such as on clients). You can choose to use a "free" provider like Gmail if you're ok with paying with your data and a lack of features (such as not being able to use a custom domain). Also by the way, Fastmail is half the price you list at $5/month (might have to prepay a year to get that price…

> You're not paying for forwarding, you're paying for someone to host a whole email stack for you (and the associated dev work such as on clients).

I know, and I love ProtonMail (for example) for that, but my use would just be forwarding and not storage or access. In my use case it would feel like overpaying.

> You can choose to use a "free" provider like Gmail if you're ok with paying with your data and a lack of features (such as not being able to use a custom domain).

It's versus G Suite Free (which is my secondary, "online name" email), my main (real name) email has to stay at Gmail because I'm afraid of the mountain of account resets I'd have to do. To be fair, this whole value consideration was back when Google were threatening to kill off G Suite Free entirely (a few months ago), so it was paid-versus-paid then.

> Also by the way, Fastmail is half the price you list at $5/month

Fair, $10/month was off the top of my head.

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by [deleted] »

braingenious wrote: post #72
D13Fd wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then I would say "Outlook.com" instead of "the entirety of Outlook" because they are very different things.

I personally was not confused because I am aware that Outlook.com is a web based email service and Outlook is a piece of software.

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Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by snazz »

skinnymuch wrote: post #70
thiht wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It supports it since iOS 15 if I’m not mistaken (last year release) This is probably the best dollar I spend every month

Email isn’t done on the OS though. A server is doing it. Is there a reason Apple hides this behind an iOS version?

It’s announced alongside new iOS versions at WWDC and Apple doesn’t break out new iCloud features separate from their new OS feature pages.

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by smileybarry »

Destitute wrote: post #68
smileybarry wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We had the first rollout of that feature, where it was just "" and only on the web. It was weird, being able to "like" email messages but no one saw it unless they opened the web client. But that's nothing compared to "the new Outlook"[1] being a webview around the Outlook.com UI library . It looks really nice in concepts but once installed it just feels like a browser in a frame: there's a window-sized splash screen…

I would be shocked if the new Outlook was Electron and not WebView2. Is there any confirmation on that or is Electron the new "Rollerblade" and "Band-aid" for wrappers?

It's probably that, I'm just used to calling webview apps "Electron" out of habit. Changed the word.

Either way, it felt really bad coming off the native, animated, efficient Office UI. And I'm usually not against Electron/webview apps.

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by esskay »

InTheArena wrote: post #62
boston_clone wrote: post #22

I’ve been using the custom email domain feature that comes with iCloud+ for some time now, and have had zero issues with it. I imagine many of us here already pay the measly 99¢ fee for additional storage, but I was unaware of that addition until recently. Awfully easy to do, even if you’re wary of DNS. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

I host about a half dozen on Office 365. When Apple came out, I switched my wife over to iCloud, since we were paying for apple anyways. Big mistake. Spam filtering on Apple is absolutely horrific. The volume of crap she started to receive was amazing. Flipped back.

I experienced the same thing. I switched a couple of domains over to iCloud and within a week moved them elsewhere. I went from pracically no spam to hundreds of blatently obvious and easy to catch spam emails hitting the inboxes every day.

I dont know what Apple uses for spam protection, but its total junk. I could roll a better spam protection myself!

Re: Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com

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Post by esskay »

Neil44 wrote: post #15

He says in 4 weeks but it's actually 1 year and 4 weeks. It was a PITA feature anyway for the family plans, requiring the domain be hosted on GoDaddy. I can't imagine it was a super popular feature.

Ew, why on earth would they lock that down to force you to use what is hands down the worst domain registrar out there?!
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