12 Mar
2012
12 Mar
'12
11:52 p.m.
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions for an email-hosting company. Need POP3
access. I need something other than Google.
I need something that is reliable ... paid is okay. Something that does
not require me to login every n months or they delete the mbox.
I currently have registered domains at fasthosts.co.uk and they host email
for about GBP 16/year. But they use Exchange servers .... is that good?
So if you have any company that your can recommend, I would appreciate it.
Also, I have a few domains that I also need to transfer ... hopefully to
the same company as the email-hoster.
Thanks in advance,
Sandy.
13 Mar
13 Mar
12:52 a.m.
I'd recommend running your own with dovecot or use one of the folks
mentioned in the credits section of http://dovecot.org/
1:51 a.m.
Unfortunately, I think I need something more reliable than me running a
host!
I'll look further into the dovecot credits. Something in Europe would be
nice, if I can find one that supports English.
Thanks.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Kai Hendry <hendry(a)webconverger.com> wrote:
I'd recommend running your own with dovecot or use
one of the folks
mentioned in the credits section of http://dovecot.org/
6:20 a.m.
I used to run my own dovecot, but recently switched to Cobweb Exchange hosting
(www.cobweb.com<http://www.cobweb.com>)m>). You pay per user per GB of mailbox storage,
their support is very good, and I haven't had an unplanned outage yet in the year or
so I've been with them (and only one planned outage). I currently pay about £7/mth -
cant recommend them highly enough!
Paul
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On 13 Mar 2012, at 01:51, "S P"
<sundancecloud@gmail.com<mailto:sundancecloud@gmail.com>> wrote:
Unfortunately, I think I need something more reliable than me running a host!
I'll look further into the dovecot credits. Something in Europe would be nice, if I
can find one that supports English.
Thanks.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Kai Hendry
<hendry@webconverger.com<mailto:hendry@webconverger.com>> wrote:
I'd recommend running your own with dovecot or use one of the folks
mentioned in the credits section of http://dovecot.org/
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8:11 a.m.
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012, at 07:52 PM, S P wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions for an email-hosting company. Need
POP3 access. I need something other than Google.
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I've been a happy customer of http://fastmail.fm for a few years now. I
think from memory the servers are hosted in the US, but the original
company is Australian (albeit now owned by Opera), so that just about
satisfies the English requirement you mentioned later :) They are mail
only though, so won't handle domains (my personal preference there is
http://gandi.net FWIW).
Richard
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9:21 a.m.
On Tuesday 13 Mar 2012, S P wrote:
Unfortunately, I think I need something more reliable
than me running a
host!
An understandable view - although I would say that I set up a Postfix+Dovecot
mailserver for 50 users - and it has been running now for 3 years with zero
downtime - and zero maintenance beyond keeping it updated.
The hassle is in setting it up - if you can stomach putting in a few hours
work - you'll have a reliable system by the end of it.
There are a number of easy to follow howtos on howtoforge.com, which is how I
started out.
http://goo.gl/V4pfD
<http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-with-postfix-dovecot-mysql-roundcube-iredadmin-on-debian-6-squeeze>
I haven't used this exact howto, but I've used others to great success. Not
sure about iredadmin or iredmail - anyone used them?
Obviously you'd want fail2ban and iptables configured - but that's no
different from running any other bitfolk VPS.
The one thing you won't have is any support :/
--
Chris Roberts
10:01 a.m.
SimplyMail do some good email deals, their basic option sounds suitable for
what you want, and is £12 a year. If you want a good web interface, try
their zimbra option, but it's relatively pricey at £40 a year.
http://www.simplymailsolutions.com/products/mse-basic
For the domain name stuff, personally I'd keep that with a dedicated domain
name registrar, there's too many things that can go wrong to let someone
who doesn't specialise deal with them.
I'm a very happy user of Domainmonster - http://www.domainmonster.com, but
other people swear by Gandi - http://www.gandi.net/
Ewan
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:52 PM, S P <sundancecloud(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions for an email-hosting company. Need POP3
access. I need something other than Google.
I need something that is reliable ... paid is okay. Something that does
not require me to login every n months or they delete the mbox.
I currently have registered domains at fasthosts.co.uk and they host
email for about GBP 16/year. But they use Exchange servers .... is that
good?
So if you have any company that your can recommend, I would appreciate it.
Also, I have a few domains that I also need to transfer ... hopefully to
the same company as the email-hoster.
Thanks in advance,
Sandy.
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11:22 p.m.
Thanks everyone for all your tips. I knew I'd get informed opinions from
this list.
The dovecot site has companies that appear to be quite good. I wish more of
the Swedish and Finnish sites were in English ... I would have been very
interested.
I think simplymailsolutions.com would be ideal for me for a straight email
site.
However, I notice that if I transfer my domain to gandi, they provide very
good email hosting free with the domain.
So, I've found my solution: a mixture of gandi and simplymailsolutions.
I'll try one domain on gandi to see how it works out.
- Sandy
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Ewan Leith <ewan(a)nutmegdata.co.uk> wrote:
SimplyMail do some good email deals, their basic
option sounds suitable
for what you want, and is £12 a year. If you want a good web interface, try
their zimbra option, but it's relatively pricey at £40 a year.
http://www.simplymailsolutions.com/products/mse-basic
For the domain name stuff, personally I'd keep that with a dedicated
domain name registrar, there's too many things that can go wrong to let
someone who doesn't specialise deal with them.
I'm a very happy user of Domainmonster - http://www.domainmonster.com,
but other people swear by Gandi - http://www.gandi.net/
Ewan
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:52 PM, S P <sundancecloud(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for suggestions for an email-hosting company. Need POP3
access. I need something other than Google.
I need something that is reliable ... paid is okay. Something that does
not require me to login every n months or they delete the mbox.
I currently have registered domains at fasthosts.co.uk and they host
email for about GBP 16/year. But they use Exchange servers .... is that
good?
So if you have any company that your can recommend, I would appreciate it.
Also, I have a few domains that I also need to transfer ... hopefully to
the same company as the email-hoster.
Thanks in advance,
Sandy.
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9:14 a.m.
On 13 March 2012 23:22, S P <sundancecloud(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So, I've found my solution: a mixture of gandi and
simplymailsolutions. I'll
try one domain on gandi to see how it works out.
Just a comment about simplymailsolutions. I had an IMAP account with
them 2 or 3 years ago and found that it was very slow if you set your
MUA (Thunderbird in my case) to check more than 2 or 3 folders. Their
support were helpful but couldn't identify any issues at their end
(despite other IMAP servers I was using being fine). They have most
likely upgraded their infrastructure since then but thought I'd
mention it anyway.
I personally use Google Apps for Business now for my domain which has
worked extremely well (and allows some in my family to continue using
Outlook for mail/calendar/contacts :) )
Mike
10:29 a.m.
Mike, thanks for the info on simplymailsolutions.
Yes, I also use Google Apps for Business; it works quite well. The reason
to go outside of Google is that I need at least one solid external account
to use as a backup address for Google (e.g. lost password, etc) and also to
diversify (!).
- Sandy
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Mike Zanker <mike(a)zanker.org> wrote:
On 13 March 2012 23:22, S P
<sundancecloud(a)gmail.com> wrote:
So, I've found my solution: a mixture of
gandi and simplymailsolutions.
I'll
try one domain on gandi to see how it works out.
Just a comment about simplymailsolutions. I had an IMAP account with
them 2 or 3 years ago and found that it was very slow if you set your
MUA (Thunderbird in my case) to check more than 2 or 3 folders. Their
support were helpful but couldn't identify any issues at their end
(despite other IMAP servers I was using being fine). They have most
likely upgraded their infrastructure since then but thought I'd
mention it anyway.
I personally use Google Apps for Business now for my domain which has
worked extremely well (and allows some in my family to continue using
Outlook for mail/calendar/contacts :) )
Mike
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