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

[Ben Barrett]

One temporary downside to google's domain service is that it is in beta,
AND you can't just be invited or startup the servic right away, AFAICT.
You sign up for it, stating your interest, and they'll call you (don't call
them!).
So if you do decide on it, you might have to wait a while, or even be lucky.

    Ben


On 11/20/06, David Mandel <dmandel at pdxlinux.org> wrote:
>
> 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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