I've been hosting my own email on a UNIX box since 2000.  Unfortunately the box recently died.  Thus I have moved my domain email to Outlook.com and am hoping it will provide most of the functionality that I can achieve when I am the admin of my own box.

Unless I'm missing something, creating email aliases for my domain is painful.  While I see the option to create an alias, unless it's for an outlook.com, live.com, or hotmail.com domain, I then have to prove I own the address.  This means that to make an alias for my own domain, I have to actually create the account for my domain in the Windows Live Admin Center.  Then I have to login to that account, verify it (via a process that's very difficult for someone that has not ability to receive SMS messages), then set it up to forward mail to another account.  This whole process negates the ease of a true alias.

While I understand the need to prove one owns the email account for domains that are not hosted on Windows Live, it doesn't make any sense for those that are.

Am I missing something?  If not, then I hope Microsoft would consider adding a simple way to make aliases for hosted domains.

Cheers,

Drew