[Eug-lug] Fwd: question about email hosting solutions

[larry price]

I've used pair.com, I am a heavy user of Gmail and I've done a bunck
of support for webmasters over the years.

If you're looking for standard email with pop and imap and have
relatively lightweight needs as far as web hosting goes a provider
like pair.com
is reasonably functional.

There are a number of outfits locally (most isps including
willamette.net (which hosts euglug.org) provide this) the variables
are usually disk space and cluefullness.

If you have heavier needs for reliability, or you just want to have it
done at a big company Yahoo Mail for small business is one outfit that
a lot of the people I've dealt with have had good luck with. Stable,
featureful, spam mostly under control.

I haven't had direct experience with Google Applications for your
domain, pluses are it's free, downside is that you are giving google a
lot of information about your business, even if they are only
accessing it programatically. (*) And AFAIK you are restricted to web
and POP access to you messages. So if you use tools that take
advantage of IMAP features for anything they won't work with Google.


On 11/19/06, David Mandel <dmandel at pdxlinux.org> wrote:
> Hosting email should be simple, but it isn't - thanks to all the
> SPAMERS and system crackers and whoever.
>
> As a result, I'm tryed of hosting my own mail and I'm looking around
> for a hosted solution for a few domains.  What do people recommend?
> What are the pros and cons to gmail for domains?
>
> David Mandel
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