GoDaddy is forcing people to move to Office 365 and it is not fun
Cannot add email to Outlook desktop after GoDaddy 365 to Microsoft 365 migration
GoDaddy: can I or can't I send email from a Microsoft 365 Email alias? (mixed messaging)
90% of my email goes to spam (GoDaddy.....)
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I have been with GoDaddy since 2007 with ~26 domains and 80 email addresses. They recently decided to stop doing POP & IMAP email with the CSR(s) telling me that 'your email is going to not work any longer because the industry has stopped accepting those old standards. You have to move to our Office 365 email or your mail will not work.' That BS wording rankled me to no end.
Given the difficulty of moving all of those domains and email, I hunkered down and started the pain of transferring the most entrenched domains to Office 365. Nothing but problems. The most recent problem is that I can not create SharedMailboxes in the admin.exchange.microsoft.com interface as they will not work on my client's Macs. GoDaddy's solution to this is to have my clients all move to an Outlook email client instead of their Apple Mail. Since that was not going to happen, they next suggested that I create the SharedMailbox from a standard email client license. That way the Mac users could log in to the account and just use them like normal email accounts instead of the SharedMailox feature that I was sold as being worth the transfer to the Office 365 email. (Yet another purchase of another email license.)
Another item that may help other Office 365 users was an error when a Mac client attempted to add an Office 365 email account to their Apple Mail program and got an error of 'You are already logged into that account.' as if the email address already existed in their Apple Mail. GoDaddy of course insisted that the user did already have that account entered and just did not see it. Then it was blamed on the 3rd party Apple Mail client and that the user should call Apple.
With all of that non-help to fix the Office 365 Exchange problem, I finally found a MS program 'Microsoft_Office_Reset_v1.9.1' that I ran which removed all of the Office history and then the user could add the Exchange account as needed.
I cannot, however, setup email accounts in Outlook for desktop
Errors or what happens would be helpful.
Did you apply a license?
The TXT record you removed, if your DNS is still hosted by GoDaddy may have to stay.
Hi all,
While I wait for Microsoft to reply, I was hoping maybe folks here had experience with this.
I backed up a small company ( 3 email accounts) to archives, then called GoDaddy to release the 365 tenant from their end. I then setup the customer directly with Microsoft.
All DNS checks pass in the Microsoft setup checker.
We can access outlook.com without any issue and send/receive email from there.
I cannot, however, setup email accounts in Outlook for desktop (which the customers prefer, and which I was hoping to import the pst backups to repopulate their email)
It hasn’t quite been 24 hours, but it’s getting close. Is this normal?
To troubleshoot, I did remove one TXT entry from the GoDaddy DNS entries that looked like it was added by godaddy (NETORGFTXXXXXX.onmicrosoft.com)
Didn’t seem to help or make a difference. Hoping someone here can help us expedite the process so I can start loading email backups back in, thanks!