Business email that behaves like Exchange where it matters: MAPI for Outlook, ActiveSync for phones, per-mailbox 2FA, spam and virus filtering — billed in SAR by a Saudi provider with Arabic support. Mailboxes provision in about 60 seconds. Free 14-day trial, no credit card.
Every week, Saudi procurement teams quietly discard supplier applications sent from free webmail addresses. It is not written in any policy; it does not have to be. A domain-matched address signals an established business, and in a market where vendor registration portals — from government platforms to the giants of the Eastern Province — are the gateway to revenue, that signal pays for itself with the first contract it protects.
The trap is what most SMEs do next: they buy the cheapest mailbox add-on their registrar offers, then spend two years fighting it — Outlook connecting badly over IMAP, calendars that never sync, spam pouring through, and support tickets answered from another continent in another language. This page is the honest map of what business-grade email actually involves, and where Skyline fits.
Most budget email hosting speaks only IMAP/SMTP. Outlook can connect to IMAP, but it degrades: calendars and contacts do not sync properly, folder behaviour is odd, and features your team knew from Exchange quietly disappear. The result is the most common complaint we hear from switchers: "email works, but Outlook is broken."
Skyline email is Outlook-native over MAPI — the protocol Outlook was built around. Mail, calendar and contacts sync as they did on Exchange, with no connector plugin to license, install or debug. Around it:
Under the hood, transport is TLS 1.3 only, outbound mail carries 2048-bit DKIM signatures, MTA-STS is enforced, and inline antivirus plus spam scanning filter the junk before staff see it. These are the mechanics that decide whether your quotations reach customers and their orders reach you.
| Tier | Storage | What it adds | Right for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | 10 GB | IMAP/SMTP + webmail, spam and virus scanning | Info@ and role addresses, light correspondents |
| Pro | 30 GB | Outlook MAPI + ActiveSync, per-mailbox 2FA | Staff who live in Outlook and on their phones |
| Business | 100 GB | Shared mailboxes, retention + archiving | Management, sales teams, anyone whose mailbox is a filing cabinet |
Mix tiers freely on one domain — a common Saudi SME pattern is Lite for role addresses, Pro for most staff, Business for the founders and finance. Live per-mailbox SAR pricing is published in the console; open the free trial to see current rates (prices excl. VAT, ZATCA-compliant invoices, no card required to look).
Skyline web hosting plans include basic mailboxes — 1 on Shared, 10 on Dedicated, 25 on Cloud — suitable for website notifications and simple mail. They are not the full product: MAPI, ActiveSync, 2FA and archiving belong to the standalone tiers above. Plenty of customers run both: the site plus basic mailboxes on a hosting plan, and Pro mailboxes for the five people who negotiate contracts. We would rather draw this line for you than have you discover it mid-migration.
Fear of the cutover keeps thousands of Saudi companies on email they hate. The mechanics are more forgiving than the fear:
If email is part of a bigger residency review — increasingly common as PDPL questions reach SME boards — read our data residency in Saudi Arabia guide alongside this. And if the rest of your stack is moving too, the Riyadh and Dammam region pages cover hosting, while the landing page maps the whole platform — domains, DNS, Drive and Skyline Comms cloud telephony included.
Yes — that is the headline feature. Skyline email is Outlook-native over MAPI, so Outlook connects as it would to an Exchange server: full mail, calendar and contacts sync, no third-party connector, no IMAP compromise. Phones connect over ActiveSync, and standard IMAP/SMTP is there for everything else.
For mail, calendar and contacts on your own domain — yes: MAPI gives you the Exchange-style Outlook experience with local SAR billing and Arabic support. What we do not bundle is the Office application suite; if your team needs Word and Excel licences, that remains a separate Microsoft purchase.
Three mailbox tiers: Lite (10 GB, IMAP/SMTP and webmail, spam and virus scanning), Pro (30 GB, adds Outlook MAPI, ActiveSync and per-mailbox 2FA) and Business (100 GB, adds shared mailboxes, retention and archiving). Per-mailbox SAR pricing is published live in the console — start the free 14-day trial to see it, no card needed.
No, and we say so plainly. Hosting plans include basic mailboxes (1 on Shared, 10 on Dedicated, 25 on Cloud) — fine for site notifications and simple correspondence. Teams living in Outlook and calendars should use the standalone email tiers, which add MAPI, ActiveSync, 2FA and archiving.
Filtering and inline antivirus scan mail before it reaches the inbox, transport runs on TLS 1.3 only, outbound mail is signed with 2048-bit DKIM, MTA-STS is enforced, and each mailbox can require two-factor authentication. You get the acronyms; your staff just get less junk.
Yes — guided migration support covers Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and GoDaddy: mailboxes, domain and DNS records, with mail kept flowing during the MX cutover. Most SME migrations complete comfortably within the trial period.
Webmail lives at mail.alskyline.com, in the browser, no client needed. New mailboxes provision in about 60 seconds from the console, so onboarding a new employee is a one-minute task.
Provision a mailbox in about 60 seconds, connect Outlook over MAPI, and judge it yourself for 14 days — free, no card, in Arabic or English.