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Outlook.com - Need clarifications : Connected account vs Premium vs Alias
1 and 3; With a Connected Account, you are sending via the original SMTP server of the domain so it's less likely that the message will get marked as spam (and also offers the option to collect your mail). If you are sending it as a pure alias, you are using the SMTP servers of Outlook.com so it will more likely get marked as spam (since they don't host your mailing domain), or you are sending it "on behalf of your custom domain" and would actually use your outlook.com address (which is also visible to the recipient) and significantly reduces the risk of having your message marked as spam.
2; Discontinued service, although several Premium features are now part of an Office Home / Personal subscription.
Note that for proper custom (vanity) domain support, it is currently recommended to get an Office 365 for Business subscription which contains Exchange Online.
1 and 3; With a Connected Account, you are sending via the original SMTP server of the domain so it's less likely that the message will get marked as spam (and also offers the option to collect your mail). If you are sending it as a pure alias, you are using the SMTP servers of Outlook.com so it will more likely get marked as spam (since they don't host your mailing domain), or you are sending it "on behalf of your custom domain" and would actually use your outlook.com address (which is also visible to the recipient) and significantly reduces the risk of having your message marked as spam.
2; Discontinued service, although several Premium features are now part of an Office Home / Personal subscription.
Note that for proper custom (vanity) domain support, it is currently recommended to get an Office 365 for Business subscription which contains Exchange Online.
Thanks for your answers Makes sense but seems redundant to me
Outlook.com Premium as a separate product has indeed been discontinued.
See: https://premium.outlook.com/
And: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/10/30/premium-outlook-com-features-now-available-to-office-365-subscribers/The Custom Domain feature (full hosting of the email domain for up to 5 addresses) is no longer being offered via Outlook.com but only via Office 365 for Business (supports much more addresses and features).
If you already have an Office 365 subscription or only want to use your mail via browser and/or on mobile mail apps, then Exchange Online is the most affordable solution being offered;
https://products.office.com/en-us/exchange/exchange-online
- Thanks, but my custom domain is a Google Apps account created in 2007, when the service was offered for free.
Other family members have an email address with this domain and use Gmail on a regular basis.
Getting Exchange Online would probably require that I move the whole domain on MS servers, not just one email address, hence my setup consisting in forwarding emails from Gmail to Outlook and choosing the best way to send email from Outlook. I guess I'll stick with a Connected account optionNo, you don't have to but it makes the configuration slightly more complex.
Using forwarder in Gmail and a (Send Only) Connected Account in Outlook.com is indeed the recommended approach when you already have a custom domain mail hosting provider and don't want to make any additional costs.