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March 2, 2024 -

Need someone to shed some light here as I'm new to this setup.

I just bught the domain from Porkbun, haven't set it up or anything yet, they offer 3 months free email.

Looking to get a M365 email plan that offers Custom business email ([email protected]).

Question is, in order to be able to buy M365 plan, I will need a valid email, which is different from ([email protected] because this hasn't been created yet, right?)

After I buy the M365 plan with the valid email, only then I can be able to create Custom business email ([email protected]) within M365?

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Yes to all the above. Don't get your email through your hosting company or domain registrar (not even if they're reselling Microsoft 365.) Instead buy the plan yourself so that you won't have hassles down the road if you move your domain or hosting. You should absolutely have a different, long-term permanent email address. If something happens you'll still be able to recover your 365 password. But make sure it's long-term permanent like Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail that won't disappear. As a site rescue specialist I've seen serious issues where an organization couldn't recover access because the tiny dialup email their founder used has gone under. If the recovery email address is dead then your access is dead. So Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail. You can definitely have email addresses with @yourdomain.name. That's 80%+ of the point. Final point: Microsoft 365 takes email security extremely seriously. You'll want to add their DNS records (ms=verification, SPF, DMARC, possibly CNAMES, etc.) or you'll have problems receiving email notifications (e.g. contact form submissions) from your website.
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This is correct. I'd also generally recommend keeping the email address that you use to actually sign up for your M365 separate from the custom domain email you plan on using. When I worked for a web hosting company, it happened all too often where customers would use an email from their domain, they would let the domain expire, and then would never receive any account related emails.
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No that would not.

However just to clarify, the txt record is just so that Microsoft know you own the domain. You need to update your Mx records etc to have mark flow wilding via o365.

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