I have windows 365, do I need themessagingco.com account

Hello Alan. Thanks for getting back. If you're trying to link your mail.iinet.net.au account directly to Microsoft 365, the best way is to add it as an IMAP account into a new Microsoft 365 instance of Outlook. This doesn't move your messages but it does allow you to connect to your existing ozemail.com.au email via old iiNet servers using Outlook. You would use mail.iinet.net.au as your incoming host (port 993, SSL) and the same for SMTP (port 587, TLS) and enter your full email address and password. However, iiNet is delegating email hosting to themessagingco.com and any change on their side to their hosting arrangements, means any long-term support for you could be compromised. If you created a new Outlook.com address you could also start afresh using the full capability of Microsoft 365 for free for three years, including 1 TB of storage with OneDrive and 50GB of mail for Outlook.com per user. You'd lose your identity and have to tell your contacts you are moving, but you can archive or migrate your old email manually. Basically, if you need to retain access to your address and email trail, adding your iiNet email account as an IMAP account for now is probably the best option.

Hello Alan. You actually don’t need a themessagingco.com account if you want to move away from your ISP’s email hosting as with Microsoft 365 Family subscription, every user will have:

50 GB of email storage for their mailbox in Outlook.com

1 TB of OneDrive storage for cloud photos, documents and other files.

So yes, you can absolutely have two users with both email storage and up to 2 TB of photos together. You will just have to create Outlook.com accounts for each user, and then migrate their email and photos over.

For your ozemail.com.au address, you can:

• Either forward any incoming mail to your Outlook.com address (if your ISP allows)
• or, add the ozemail address as a send-from alias in Outlook.com so you can still use it for replies.

Here's the reference: Cloud Storage Microsoft 365 Family

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