Using Azure websites, but what about a web mail solution

Question

Have played about with windows azure for a little while and i am quite fond of it, however a common requirement with most web sites is to provide a web mail and POP / IMAP solution like you get with the traditional shared web hosting from godaddy.

As anybody got any solutions for this, i am after a way to provide customers that have a domain a web mail platform with POP and IMAP access.

Thanks

Answer 1

Updated: Outlook.com no longer offers support for custom domain management. New customers looking to manage custom domains are encouraged to use Office 365 Not working with custom domain: https://www.domains.live.com anymore. Working but not free: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/migrate-custom-domain

Live Custom Domains service from Microsoft.** It is free service on your own (customer) domain. You can set CNAME, eg. mail.yourdomain.com. You will obtain POP3, IMAP, EAS with a new Outlook.com look & feel.

For accessing account using POP3 or IMAP in your email client software: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/outlook/send-receive-from-app

Also you'll get SkyDrive cloud storage for free: http://skydrive.com/

Microsoft has a good documented API for it here: http://isdk.dev.live.com/ and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/live/hh243648.aspx

As SMTP server with huge traffic you can use SendGrid, up to 200 mails per a day is also free. http://sendgrid.com/pricing.html

SendGrid has nice statistics and categorization functionality with it's very powerful API: http://sendgrid.com/docs/