I dumped email hosting a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. In my situation, I found that over 2 thirds of the subs WERE NOT using the email but were with mostly Yahoo and a few other online services. I found myself having to deal with cleaning out junk mail from stagnant email accounts every few months and dealing with the mail server, backups and all that other stuff that I really had no time for.
I kept the users who were on the system, stopped assigning email to the new subs and eventually we had zero mail users and I was done. If someone insists on mail, I'll assign one and charge an extra 5 bucks a month for it and add it to our domain which we now just host with a webhosting company. Simple and cheap. We've all had this discussion before and yes, I know it's cool to have your service name in emails being sent out all over but I really get no advertisement from that unless they are sending the emails local and even with that, the area already knows us. Ah......... The joy of not getting the "My emails not workin'" phone calls..... Bob- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Barnes Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 6:25 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: [WISPA] Email Hosting I know that this has been discussed here last year but I am looking for updates. I am wondering what others are using for email hosting. My current service is low grade at best and I really do not want it brought back in-house. I only have about 500 Subs and 300 emails. Filtering, storage, bandwidth, and backup are all too much of a pain I would just prefer an affordable easy to transfer to service that doesn't kill my budget. I know Google has a service but I have not been able to get anyone to tell me that it is the perfect answer. I would also like a option to be able to give some clients an Exchange type of account, (sync to outlook or Blackberry) for more money and everyone else just a regular pop. Any recommendations? Steve Barnes RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
