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Hosted Email - Is it something you would buy?
Hi,
As you may already know I have been looking into Email Hosting CP's because I am thinking of providing a Hosted Email service.
Would it be something your interested in?
- Would you buy it?15 votes
- Yes46.67%
- No53.33%
- How much space would you want?15 votes
- 1GB26.67%
- 2GB0.00%
- 5GB13.33%
- 10GB20.00%
- More?40.00%
This discussion has been closed.
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I think the answer is more complicated than 'Yes' or 'No'. I would consider buying hosted email, but given the sensitive nature, it would have be a provider that I trusted 100%. That person wouldn't be you, simply because I'm unaware of who you are and your track record in providing services.
I pay for hosted email myself right now, around 6 euros a year
my reasons for this:
services like gmail reject emails sent from IP's that have been reported in the past
this is not always a good thing because sometimes ip's are shared etc this would mean that legit email gets rejected too.
i've also noticed that services like gmail not always notify you about them rejecting a email for you.
It is also important that the email host his own network isn't blacklisted anywhere
if this is the case then the email provider should get it removed from the blacklist again
if any of what i wrote is not being offered/missing then it wouldn't be worth paying for.
Maybe it is time for a mayor (i.e. @Prometeus) provider to offer this?
Still no. Email is 'special.'
thats one of the points i forgot to add in my previous post
privacy/trust is important too, i would only use services from a known provider
i rather not have someone read my mails.
Agreed. IMO, we're talking epic levels of trust, integrity and security.
Host your own, but not anyone elses. I host mine off my atom server, works perfectly.
Also, one thing people are interested in is security and particularly privacy. For privacy it can be of benefit to encrypt, like described in this post:
Automatically Encrypting all Incoming Email.
closing as OP requested