I use Gmail.  Don't get those calls.  Still get some revenue.

On 3/25/10, Robert West <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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