[PLUG] Hosted e-mail recommendations?

[Rick]

Since you haven't really listed any of the clients email requirements (in
terms of security, backups/archives, etc.) it's difficult to say if this
will meet your needs... but it's been a life-saver for me...

Some people may have strong opinions against it, but I manage our hosted
email services at work... we use Google Apps for Domains (I think that's
the official name). It's basically a corporate version of GMail+the other
Google services (so... if you want it to be... it can be SOOO much more
than JUST email... calendar, GoogleDocs, and much, much more).

Our users love that it works the same way as their (personal) GMail/Google
accounts.

I love that it is incredibly flexible and feature-ful... and not terribly
difficult to manage. You can manage it "by hand" through a web interface,
or use the APIs to do some more fancy/automated/etc. management.

If someone doesn't want to use the usual web interface, it can be used with
any POP or IMAP client... and is fully compatible with iOS, Android (of
course), etc. The web version will work on pretty much any web browser
(although you may have limited functionality on older browsers)... it does
not require any additional plugins (Flash, etc.)

I know that their paid corporate version can be a little spendy... that's
the big drawback. There is a free (ad-supported) version of Google Apps for
Domains (much like regular GMail, not terribly intrusive ads)... but I'm
not sure whether their EULA allows for corporate use - might be worth
looking into.

That's my $0.02 anyway. Hope it's of value to you.

-Rick

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Brian Martin
<plugng3 at martinconsulting.com>wrote:

> Dear Pluggers,
>
> A client of mine is currently using GoDaddy for hosted e-mail services.
> They're not very satisfied, but see the advantages of using a hosted
> service
> rather than running it in-house.  Do any of you have recommendations for
> hosted e-mail service providers you're pleased with.  The client is using a
> variety of e-mail clients (Thunderbird, something on the Mac, the service's
> Webmail interface, Windows Mail, etc.), so they're looking for something
> pretty much just using standard protocols.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>                                     -Brian Martin
>
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