is there any difference between email accounts created with either domain?advantages disadvantages?. There must be a reason for Microsoft creating the @live.com domain.
@hotmail.com or @live.com
office-365outlook.com
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SMTP is designed to allow any host relay messages originally sent by another host. For example, I could run a SMTP server for my own domain, but configure server B to accept mail whenever my server is down and forward it later to its destination.
Every hop, including the sender (whether legitimate or not), can add any header they wish; for example, a secretary can put the boss' address in
From. And so can a spammer. It's not uncommon to see spam with spoofedReceivedorDateheaders too.SPF was created to allow a domain's owner to specify which servers are allowed to send messages claiming to be from that domain.
blizzard.comhas a SPF record, but either Hotmail does not check it at all or ignores the "reject" rule. Or the fake mail is being sent from an allowed host.Some mail servers (especially the big ones, such as Gmail or Yahoo! Mail) attach a DKIM digital signature to all outgoing messages. However, while this can prove that a message is legitimate, it does absolutely nothing to detect fake messages, because the recipient just does not know whether DKIM was disabled intentionally or not.
- When DNSSEC becomes widespread enough, it might be possible to check if the sender has published a DKIM key; however, this would cause other problems.
There exist ways to digitally sign single messages – PGP and S/MIME – but they, like DKIM, are equally useless against spam.
It is possible to set up an alias for your email address in the country code top level domain. The option is available somewhere in the mail settings. Here are some steps (note that this is using Outlook online):
- Log in to your Hotmail/Windows Live account.
- Click on the gear icon on the top right hand corner and select "More mail settings"
- In the Options page, click on "Your email accounts" under the "Managing your account" header.
- In the new page, you will see the "Create an Outlook alias" heading, as shown below:
- Click on that button and you would be able to walk through the creation of an alias in your preferred domain (depending on availability of the email address).
Hope this helps!
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Best Answer
There is no difference. Just use the one that you prefer, if the address you want is still available.
Hotmail has 364 million users. They started adding more domains so that more people could get the email address they wanted. My mother managed to find her name available on
@hotmail.co.uk, while she has to have a large number as a suffix on@hotmail.com.If you have your own domain, you can use it on Hotmail, while still being able to use the domain for websites.