We provide Exchange for $9.95 per month per mailbox. We also provide Imail (POP3/IMAP) as a part of Web hosting or SQL DB hosting package.
We do not split a customer's domain name between Exchange and Imail. To have a seamless service, all mailboxes have to be either on Exchange or on Imail. Yes, we could design all kinds of forwarding tricks, but that's too much overhead if one is dealing with tens of thousands of customers. To offer POP3/IMAP on Exchange is an overkill, Imail can handle those better for MUCH less money. Although some customers sign up for Exchange and pay $9.95 and only use POP3. -----Original Message----- From: Greg Deckler [mailto:greg@;infonition.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:25 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: somewhat OT You've hit the major players. The entire email hosting business has pretty much flopped and consolidated. Critical Path handed over its hosted corporate messaging services to HP. United Messaging was acquired by Agilera. Commtouch sold its hosted Exchange business to TeleComputing. USA.NET and Mi8 are still hanging in there, for now. But this entire market space has just been decimated of late. I still think that the business case is there for outsourced messaging, but apparently not enough people have the same attitude that I do. Anyone else care to comment on why they think that this market space has flopped? One would think that in a time of economic hardship, companies would really be looking to outsource anything and everything they can in order to lower costs. If outsourced corporate messaging can't make it in today's economy, I have serious doubts that it will ever make it. But the question is why? Outsourced messaging holds the promise of lower costs, flexibility and the ability to focus on one's core business. In addition, many of the outsourced providers can put together systems that have a mix of high-end and low-end mailbox services that are all tied together as a single system. This means that companies can have Exchange mailboxes for those that need it and low-cost IMAP/POP mailboxes for everyone else and the outsourcer ties it all together to look like a single email system. So why did this market fail? > Who all is left in the Hosted E2K (asp-model) game?=20 > > USA.NET? > MI8?=20 > Critical Path? > > others?=20 > > j > Regards,=20 > > > John Henley _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:leave-exchange@;ls.swynk.com Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]