We have over 7400 email boxes. At $0.35 each that is almost $2,600/month or $31,200/year. That is a large expense for email.
Thanks, Cameron Kilton Project Manager Midcoast Internet Solutions http://www.midcoast.com c...@midcoast.com (207) 594-8277 x 108 On 3/29/2011 11:55 AM, Shaun Hoggan wrote: > This is a great dialog on the pros and cons of hosting vs. outsourcing > email. While the answer is not going to be the same for everyone, > outsourcing our mail to Google has improved our customer experience many > fold and has further entrenched our customers to us as their ISP. > > IKANO determined several years ago that we could not compete with the > Google Gmail. The adage goes, “if you cannot beat them join them.” IKANO > ended up moving our mail to Gmail and it has been one of the single best > decisions we have made as a service provider. > > You can find out more about how IKANO is enabling service providers to > move to Gmail here: > > http://partneredition.ikano.com/ > > Shaun Hoggan > > s...@ikano.com <mailto:s...@ikano.com> > > 801-415-8113 > > *From:* wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] > *On Behalf Of *Mark Nash > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:57 AM > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] OpenSource Email Server platform > > Would someone please tell me who to get in touch with for this $.35 per > account price you're getting? I haven't been able to track anyone down > about it. > > Thanks. > > Mark > > On 3/29/2011 6:53 AM, Chuck Hogg wrote: > > All I'm going to say about this is that Gmail made my email headaches go > away. No more tracking down spam/antivirus issues, no more webmail > issues, no more hardware issues with the servers (disks seemed to fail > in an email server more often than a web server). No more people getting > their password hacked and thousands of emails being sent out. No more > IPs ending up in the SORBS/et. al databases. I tracked email maintenance > time and materials for 6 months, and it was well worth the $.35 per > email account we spent to let Google do it. > > It is so easy to tell someone to take their iPhone/Droid phone/et. al > and select Google as their email provider and put in their login > information. > > > Regards, > Chuck > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <fai...@snappydsl.net > <mailto:fai...@snappydsl.net>> wrote: > > You can slice it any way you like... > > all I can tell you is that ... when you have evaluate honestly how much > time is spent by yourself or someone vs how much you have to pay for the > service... > > for example. > Paying someone $75/month to keep linux boxes uptodate and secure is a > very inexpensive proposition. > Paying someone $0.25 per mailbox for high quality spam / virus filtering > services is a very inexpensive proposition.. > > paying $0.35 per mailbox which includes some ridiculous amount of > storage and spam / anti virus is a heck of a deal... > > Unless.... you need somethings else that is not there... > e.g. in our case, we use internal hosted machines that we have > 'outsourced' security & updates on to a third party... and we pay a > different third party for excellent Spam/Virus filtering... > > our problem was very simple... we provide hosting packages along with > email.... even though what Google and Tucows offer is a great deal.. but > we needed options which they don't offer. > > Maybe next go around we may separate mail from hosting control panel... > > Your Mileage May Vary. > > Regards > > > > Faisal Imtiaz > > Snappy Internet& Telecom > > > > > On 3/28/2011 8:41 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Exactly, out-sourcing just means you just pay for it indirectly, plus > their profit. > > ----- > > Mike Hammett > > Intelligent Computing Solutions > > http://www.ics-il.com > > > > > On 3/28/2011 5:18 PM, Cameron Crum wrote: > > It all costs some way. You pay for administration, hardware, etc, > whether you outsource or host it yourself. The time savings for me would > be well worth $0.35 per user even in the thousands...may not be for others. > > Cameron > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Matt <lm7...@gmail.com > <mailto:lm7...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Do you have the ability to do multiple domains with the Google > platform? We > > also offer hosting services that need email. > > To do the switch to Gmail I believe you must change all client SMTP > and POP3 server settings. Yuk. Also, depending how many email > accounts you have $0.35 can really add up especially when in the > thousands. > > > > I would second qmailtoaster if you have to have your own server. > Personally, > > I would never run my own server again. At $0.35/mailbox with google > or other > > hosted platforms, the time and effort it takes to keep things updated and > > blocking spam effectively are much more costly. > > > > Regards, > > > > Cameron > > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Frank Crawford <mogoo...@gmx.com > <mailto:mogoo...@gmx.com>> wrote: > > > > http://www.mailenable.com/standard_edition.asp > > > > There is a free (as in beer) edition and versions with the requirements > > that you requested. > > > > Frank > > > > On 3/28/2011 12:53 PM, Patrick D. Nix, Jr wrote: > >> Since we began in '98 we've been using the same windows based email > server > >> MailMax. Because of some support/productivity issues we are > investigating > >> integrating a new box. The requirements are: webmail, web management of > >> individuals mail accounts (with password reset), pop3/smtp/imap, can > run on > >> Windows or Linux. 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