I don't know what Google's ISP solution is, but I decided long ago that google provides me better spam filtering than I can possibly hope to maintain in house. Let's face it, gmail handles such a large volume of email, it can much more accurately identify and filter out junk based on pattern recognition, dead-end boxes, etc. than any independent ISP can hope to find.
So, I still "use" my own email accounts, but they all get filtered through a gmail account (either through aliases or forwarding rules) before I ever pick up my mail. The nice part about this solution is that it enables me to continue to assign common aliases - like sales, service, support, etc., I have "personalized" email with my own domain name, and if I wanted to, I could still drop in rules in the mail server to trigger automated processes based on email source or content. Using gmail in conjunction with your own email server is the best of both worlds - all the control, but a lot less hassle. - Larry -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Richardson Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 12:18 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Email Hosting We do. We love it, customers love it. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 7:17 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Email Hosting Josh, Do you use Google's ISP solution? On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Josh Luthman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> 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! 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