Indeed... the administrative burden isn't caused by running the email server itself, it comes from dealing with people that expect you to teach them how to use email, and explaining the same thing a hundred different times to the same customer (like say, why they can't find all of the messages that they deleted three years ago, or why an email won't go through when you keep trying to send it to an address that doesn't exist... ). For the majority of customers, sure, there's nothing to it, but it only takes a tiny percentage to make it very much not worth dealing with.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:53 AM, Brandon Yuchasz <[email protected]> wrote: > My guess is “ I cant get email to work on my new iphone” J > > > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Mike Hammett > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:41 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Email Server > > > > What are people doing to cause an administrative burden? > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > > *From: *"Jeremy" <[email protected]> > *To: *[email protected] > *Sent: *Wednesday, February 21, 2018 9:36:15 AM > *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] Email Server > > We use Zimbra (and I love it!), but gave up on providing emails to > customers years ago. We have a few (maybe 10) remaining aside from our > in-house emails. These 10 customers are not really profitable due to the > amount of time that we spend dealing with email issues every year. I would > never even consider going back to providing email, and we are considering > cancelling these ten. > > > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Dennis Burgess <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We host quite a few mailboxes, can’t tell you how many, it’s a number of > servers in redundant configuration, we can have two servers physically go > down and nothing stops working. We also backup everything on a daily > basis, pricing starts at 2 bucks a mailbox but goes down from there as the > scale increases. We offer secure webmail, secure POP/IMAP as well as SPF > and DMARK if you are so inclined to do so. Remote administration and > simple migration. All of our pricing is here . https://www.linktechs.net/ > productcart/pc/viewcontent.asp?idpage=47 in case someone wanted to know > or wished us to host it. J Just a FYI. > > > > Dennis Burgess > > www.linktechs.net – 314-735-0270 x103 <(314)%20735-0270> – > [email protected] > > > > *From:* Af [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Lewis Bergman > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 20, 2018 7:53 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] Email Server > > > > I tried the same thing. I thought nobody would pay that much. I found they > would happily do it. I kept raising it. They finally started fleeing when i > required $20 a month paid annually. > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018, 7:22 PM Steve Jones <[email protected]> > wrote: > > We went to rackspace, never turned back, we are ona na inexpensivish rate > and we dont pimp the isp email. Though maybe we should, we set it at 5 > bucks a box per month with required annual payment if you want to keep your > email after leaving our service. Figured that would get them to go away, > but a suprising number keep it. Its pure cash, like people who still have > dialup customers that churn cash with zero support each month. > > > > On Feb 20, 2018 5:32 PM, "Layne Sisk" <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have lots of ISPs that outsource email hosting to us, but we have a > grandfathered deal and use BlueTie to provide the service. We used to run > our own servers and found that we could provide better service at a lower > cost (and wayyyy less headaches). > > Layne Sisk > ServerPlus > 801.426.8283, ext 102 > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Matt > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 9:35 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AFMUG] Email Server > > For those of you still providing your users with an email account what > platforms are you using? > > > > >
