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Brian Martin | 22 Jun 2012 01:37

Hosted e-mail recommendations?

Dear Pluggers,

A client of mine is currently using GoDaddy for hosted e-mail services.
They're not very satisfied, but see the advantages of using a hosted service
rather than running it in-house.  Do any of you have recommendations for
hosted e-mail service providers you're pleased with.  The client is using a
variety of e-mail clients (Thunderbird, something on the Mac, the service's
Webmail interface, Windows Mail, etc.), so they're looking for something
pretty much just using standard protocols.

Thanks in advance,
                                     -Brian Martin

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Rick | 22 Jun 2012 01:58
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Re: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

Since you haven't really listed any of the clients email requirements (in
terms of security, backups/archives, etc.) it's difficult to say if this
will meet your needs... but it's been a life-saver for me...

Some people may have strong opinions against it, but I manage our hosted
email services at work... we use Google Apps for Domains (I think that's
the official name). It's basically a corporate version of GMail+the other
Google services (so... if you want it to be... it can be SOOO much more
than JUST email... calendar, GoogleDocs, and much, much more).

Our users love that it works the same way as their (personal) GMail/Google
accounts.

I love that it is incredibly flexible and feature-ful... and not terribly
difficult to manage. You can manage it "by hand" through a web interface,
or use the APIs to do some more fancy/automated/etc. management.

If someone doesn't want to use the usual web interface, it can be used with
any POP or IMAP client... and is fully compatible with iOS, Android (of
course), etc. The web version will work on pretty much any web browser
(although you may have limited functionality on older browsers)... it does
not require any additional plugins (Flash, etc.)

I know that their paid corporate version can be a little spendy... that's
the big drawback. There is a free (ad-supported) version of Google Apps for
Domains (much like regular GMail, not terribly intrusive ads)... but I'm
not sure whether their EULA allows for corporate use - might be worth
looking into.

That's my $0.02 anyway. Hope it's of value to you.
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wes | 22 Jun 2012 07:46

Re: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

+1 for Google Apps. I'll help you set it up if you need.

-wes

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Rick <rdoyle16+plug <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Since you haven't really listed any of the clients email requirements (in
> terms of security, backups/archives, etc.) it's difficult to say if this
> will meet your needs... but it's been a life-saver for me...
>
> Some people may have strong opinions against it, but I manage our hosted
> email services at work... we use Google Apps for Domains (I think that's
> the official name). It's basically a corporate version of GMail+the other
> Google services (so... if you want it to be... it can be SOOO much more
> than JUST email... calendar, GoogleDocs, and much, much more).
>
> Our users love that it works the same way as their (personal) GMail/Google
> accounts.
>
> I love that it is incredibly flexible and feature-ful... and not terribly
> difficult to manage. You can manage it "by hand" through a web interface,
> or use the APIs to do some more fancy/automated/etc. management.
>
> If someone doesn't want to use the usual web interface, it can be used with
> any POP or IMAP client... and is fully compatible with iOS, Android (of
> course), etc. The web version will work on pretty much any web browser
> (although you may have limited functionality on older browsers)... it does
> not require any additional plugins (Flash, etc.)
>
> I know that their paid corporate version can be a little spendy... that's
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Robert Miesen | 23 Jun 2012 01:03
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Re: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

Out of curiosity, is there another solution that offers competitive 
pricing for hosting the email accounts on a domain basis? I work for a 
small company and we have at least two domains that we would need less 
than 5 actual email accounts for total and paying Google $5 -- $10 per 
email account seems...unattractive when we really only need basic email 
functionality.

On 06/21/2012 22:46, wes wrote:
> +1 for Google Apps. I'll help you set it up if you need.
>
> -wes
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Rick <rdoyle16+plug <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Since you haven't really listed any of the clients email requirements (in
>> terms of security, backups/archives, etc.) it's difficult to say if this
>> will meet your needs... but it's been a life-saver for me...
>>
>> Some people may have strong opinions against it, but I manage our hosted
>> email services at work... we use Google Apps for Domains (I think that's
>> the official name). It's basically a corporate version of GMail+the other
>> Google services (so... if you want it to be... it can be SOOO much more
>> than JUST email... calendar, GoogleDocs, and much, much more).
>>
>> Our users love that it works the same way as their (personal) GMail/Google
>> accounts.
>>
>> I love that it is incredibly flexible and feature-ful... and not terribly
>> difficult to manage. You can manage it "by hand" through a web interface,
>> or use the APIs to do some more fancy/automated/etc. management.
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Benjamin Foote | 23 Jun 2012 01:09

Fwd: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

This says it's free for up to 10 users....

https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/standard/new3

Benjamin Foote
http://pdxstump.com - a search engine and news aggregator for Portland
http://bnf.net - Linux and Java Consulting
ben <at> bnf.net
503-313-5379
 <at> pdxstump on twitter

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Robert Miesen <robert.miesen <at> gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Hosted e-mail recommendations?
To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help <plug <at> lists.pdxlinux.org>

Out of curiosity, is there another solution that offers competitive
pricing for hosting the email accounts on a domain basis? I work for a
small company and we have at least two domains that we would need less
than 5 actual email accounts for total and paying Google $5 -- $10 per
email account seems...unattractive when we really only need basic email
functionality.

On 06/21/2012 22:46, wes wrote:
> +1 for Google Apps. I'll help you set it up if you need.
>
> -wes
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Rick <rdoyle16+plug <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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wes | 23 Jun 2012 01:25

Re: Fwd: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

I use it for free. And the paid version is $50 per user per year. And what
you get for that is way more than you get from anywhere else for that price.

-wes

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Benjamin Foote <plug <at> bnf.net> wrote:

> This says it's free for up to 10 users....
>
> https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/standard/new3
>
>
> Benjamin Foote
> http://pdxstump.com - a search engine and news aggregator for Portland
> http://bnf.net - Linux and Java Consulting
> ben <at> bnf.net
> 503-313-5379
>  <at> pdxstump on twitter
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Robert Miesen <robert.miesen <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Hosted e-mail recommendations?
> To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help <plug <at> lists.pdxlinux.org>
>
>
> Out of curiosity, is there another solution that offers competitive
> pricing for hosting the email accounts on a domain basis? I work for a
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Michael Rasmussen | 23 Jun 2012 02:24
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Re: Fwd: Hosted e-mail recommendations?

On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:25:09PM -0700, wes wrote:
> I use it for free. And the paid version is $50 per user per year. And what
> you get for that is way more than you get from anywhere else for that price.

Heck, why don't they just go to a buck a week.

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Russell Johnson | 23 Jun 2012 01:10

Re: Hosted e-mail recommendations?


On Jun 22, 2012, at 4:03 PM, Robert Miesen wrote:

> Out of curiosity, is there another solution that offers competitive 
> pricing for hosting the email accounts on a domain basis? I work for a 
> small company and we have at least two domains that we would need less 
> than 5 actual email accounts for total and paying Google $5 -- $10 per 
> email account seems...unattractive when we really only need basic email 
> functionality.

It's way overkill for what you want, but I pay 1and1.com $36 every 3 months. For that I get my domain hosted in
perpetuity, up to 2000 email accounts, and a bunch of other stuff that I usually forget about. 

Russell Johnson
russ <at> dimstar.net
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