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namecheap.com has started emailhosting, looks good..
Their plans look to be very good value, but does anyone have personal experience of using them?
@Nekki I'm in a similar situation. I have tried namecheap.com's email hosting as they are my domain registrar. Within one hour I had already moved on to finding other solutions. They do not allow you to send mail out as any other address, just your [email protected]. For example you can create an alias address for [email protected] to have mail delivered to [email protected]. But you can not send email out as [email protected].
I have also tried Windows Live (Outlook.com) but the service does not seem to want to work with my domain. Support does not offer any solutions.
Rackspace bothers me because you must have at least 5 mailboxes. Thus you must spend at least $10 per month. At this point a VPS is cheaper.
I myself like the open source self-hosted Zimbra, but I cannot find a VPS under $10 per month to run it on.
I also like Smarter Mail from Smarter Tools. It runs on Windows making it difficult to find VPS solution within budget. I haven't found any good hosts for it.
I would like to set something up on my VPS, but I'm unsure of how exactly to do it.
I have tried Fastmail.fm but I have been able to determine that in the time I was using it I missed some messages. There was no reported downtime.
Google Apps all day, every day.
To each his own. ;-)
And they provide MS Active Sync, which is quite nice. Didn't know that. That's a nice alternative to MS Hosted Exchange.
I agree with tech163. Awesome service. Supported by Opera
I'm working on getting setup with Rackspace now.
Have you found a reseller, or are you biting the bullet and setting up the minimum 5 accounts?
I have rackspace e-mail and im looking and im not seeing the option to add on more domains so maybe a reseller isnt possible.
I've never been able to find a reseller, so I guess that makes sense...
Does it have insane specs? Or just in terms of reliability?
Atmail has changed their licensing setup with their Atmail 7 release in the past fortnight (after I just bought a 500 seat license!!!), from first glance at the new structure you can go with a self-hosted solution for as little as $20 for the year with a single seat.
@Nekki I'm working on getting Racksapce's discount for Spiceworks users. Brings the price down to $1 per mailbox. See http://community.spiceworks.com/pages/Rackspace . But yes right now I have 5 users ($10 per month total) but the cost should be reduced once billing applies the discount on Monday.
@averell Zimbra wants at least 1GB of RAM for testing and recommends 2 to 4 GB for a production instance. I have not been able to find a VPS with 3 GB of RAM that is under $10 per month. I also have to figure out some sort of backup plan if I can find a provider. If I can, I think I would switch.
For email hosting you're better off going with an established provider rather than doing it yourself. The big guys are whitelisted at all the major email providers while a newcomer is going to find all his emails end up in the spam folder.
Anyone get better google apps pricing? Looks like $50/yr per user (or $5/mo)
PS Try to avoid self-hosted options and re-inventing the wheel. You can spend your time on more fruitful endeavours.
I would say open exchange on a vps is a pretty good way to go.
1 dedicated thread for request is enough i think.
Huh?
I assume he meant to post in this discussion: http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/7271/suggestion-new-category-039requests
Outlook/Windows Live Admin Center's 500 free accounts per domain + virtually unlimited storage is pretty hard to beat. Outlook.com's interface is also very, very nice (even though the domain admin center still looks like Hotmail).
@24khost - you got any info on it? All I can find is the commercial stuff (unless that's right)
@DeanClinton I thought they had a community server edition too but guess not. Looks like only the apps.
There is Claros, Axigen, Zimbra
@24khost - found it.
http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Main_Page_AppSuite#information
Glad I could be of some help, looks like it is a full mail server.
Deeprootlinux looks good to for a email server.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=free webmail servers&source=web&cd=36&cad=rja&ved=0CEsQFjAFOB4&url=http://www.deeproot.in/&ei=FlP0UPTUJbPI0AGa0oDgAg&usg=AFQjCNEBz0DNgbn31ODjbR1ZrBD3_srE6Q
If someone would now just reverse engineer MS Exchange Active Sync and open source it, everything would be perfect.
Not necessary :-) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc425499.aspx
http://z-push.sourceforge.net/soswp/
http://wiki.horde.org/ActiveSync
Why?
Because I want to sync calendars and adresses and have group access to it.
Well, afaik you need a quite expensive license to officially use the EAS. And of course a MS Email-server. And I would like to stay with Courier-IMAP plus the ability to sync calendars and adresses out of the box :-)
That is a nice approach. Must have a closer look into it. Thanks for sharing!
I wasn't aware Horde did it, thanks!