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

[David Mandel]

Larry and all,

Thanks for the replies.

I'm testing gmail for domains to see how it works out.

I have less than a dozen domains and they all have very simple mail systems.
Thus, I would prefer not hosting it myself - altho I need someone to
host them as
I need to accept email sent to several of these domains.

On the other hand, I intend to continue hosting the web sites myself.
The web sites are low bandwidth, but several of them use a lot of disk
storage for data and they built on a variety of software.

David Mandel


On 11/19/06, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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