Use of own domain name with Office 365 Home/Premium

My solution was:

Purchase the Office 365 Home 

Use Outlook.com (the full Outlook 365 is only for business accounts)

Create a Send-Only account using my domain email address in Outlook.com settings

Create a ******@outlook.com alias account in Outlook.com settings

Change DNS from Google Apps back to my domain provider.

Create Mail Forwarding accounts at my domain provider that forward to my ******@outlook.com

POP3 is not viable as it retrieves up to 50 messages, every 30 minutes.

This forwarding to the outlook.com alias receives the email instantly

and sends emails using the domain provider SMTP so it doesn't do "on behalf of".

So it looks and feels like the mail is hosted at Outlook.com

"I am using Office 365 Home (4 users) which does not include Outlook 365, it uses Outlook.com."

Really!!!!!!!!!

I have discovered a nice work around:

I am using Office 365 Home (4 users) which does not include Outlook 365, it uses Outlook.com.

Outlook.com is the new Hotmail and has a few limitations like about 100 emails sent/day.

It has unlimited mailbox size.

I created a Send Only account in Outlook.com using my domain email address and configured it as the default send-from address.  Then I created an alias to my email like ******@Outlook.com

My domain was hosted with Google Apps and the DNS records at my domain provider pointed to Google.

I reset the DNS records at my domain provider to default (using Netfirms) and reset the SPF record.

Then I created 4 forwarding email accounts (no local mailbox) for my domain at Netfirms that forwarded email to my Outlook.com aliases.

Using POP3 with Outlook.com is slow as only 50 messages are received every 30 minutes which is not practical for most users.

Email is forwarded from my domain provider to my alias.outlook.com email address and arrives in my Outlook.com mailbox looking like it was sent to my proper email address.  When I send emails, they send through my domain provider, so they are not send "on behalf of".

Sends and receives are fast and act like they are hosted on Outlook.com.

I needed to create a dummy mailbox at Netfirms to use for sending mail, because the forwarded emails did not have a username/password associated with them for authenticated SMTP.  So I send using ******@mydomain.com with the dummy username and password.

So for $99/year, I have 4 users with 1TB of OneDrive, Office online (free) and Office 365 apps, and mail running on Outlook.com

If you cannot/do not wish to continue paying for your existing mail hosting service, then there are 365 suppliers with whom you can transfer your hosting service to, and the domain registration, and in the purchase of 365 from them you are then able to use your domain address (I'm unsure as to whether this option is available for Home version, it certainly is for 365 business)

I have read through this entire thread before posting. I think you may be missing what this thread is about.

A large number of people have their own domains for private use. These are private domains, either acquired specifically for private family use or, as in my case, a domain (more specifically mine and my partners email address) I wish to keep from a now defunct company which I am paying for from my wages.

Being for personal use, many can not afford/ do not wish to pay for business packages that are not only more expensive but do not allow the whole family access. In my case I only wish access for two people but would like access from my tablet, PC, my partner's computer and to be able to log in at work so no private emails need to be sent to my work email address and I can keep personal stuff like study separate from work.

There does seem to be a number of people on this thread who wouldn't begrudge paying a couple of extra dollars per month to have this option. I know I wouldn't mind paying a couple of extra dollars if it allowed better spam control than my current domain host and was fully integrated in the setup.

I have been putting off changing my plan with my domain host as I was intending just closing my account but, as ms does not appear to wish to respond to this thread (or at least officially - with confirmed facts) I will just ask my domain host to remove my now defunct website and just charge me for hosting my email which is just a couple of dollars a month. I already have the complete Office 2013 package, the only real reason I was motivated to go to Office 365 was the full integration and option to connect away from my desktop - without the email integration (hopefully with improved spam control), the drive to do anything is gone.

If you cannot/do not wish to continue paying for your existing mail hosting service, then there are 365 suppliers with whom you can transfer your hosting service to, and the domain registration, and in the purchase of 365 from them you are then able to use your domain address (I'm unsure as to whether this option is available for Home version, it certainly is for 365 business)