I am looking for an email service (not ISP-based). Looking at the info on the sites of various outfits that sell these services I am amazed how little they tell you, ... and hence being an old cynic I tend to assume that unless they explicitly say that they provide a feature then they do not. So, I am struggling a bit at the moment.
Can you help? In outline my shopping list includes ...
* support for local PC client (Outlook 2003 in my case) to store emails locally - web only email not suitable
* support for POP (inbound traffic) and SMTP (outbound)
* web access to emails from any PC
* MUST be reliable (as it will be used for work-related traffic as well as personal)
* ideally unlimited traffic (or at least 1GB per month)
* support for own domain name
* effective spam filtering.
Free services are unlikely to cut the mustard.
Any recommendations?
Thanks .. in advance
have a look at
http://www.freeparking.co.uk/default.asp?f=13 £4.99 including domain
or for a better service get some webspace from someone such as supanames which have various tarrifs and email accounts from £13.99
http://www.supanames.co.uk/hosting/linux
(dont be worried that its linux hosting if your a windows user it wont affect your PC, IN FACT avoid windows hosting if possible)
HTH Glo
I've been using gmail for some time with my own domain (through google apps). Free as free can be. I design enterprise messaging solutions for a living - and its reet for me!
Ticks all your boxes above.
I tried Windows Live Mail with Outlook using the 'Outlook Connector', but it was a bit hit and miss. GMail allows POP and IMAP access, but the IMAP access is a bit funky as GMail uses lables rather than folders. For POP mail it is perfect though.
Tim
I second the Googlemail recommendation but someone will need to send you and invite (I think?) Gtalk the IM withit is very good, busy chatting to my sister-in-law in Oz now.
Quote from: Kea on April 17, 2008, 11:34:59
I second the Googlemail recommendation but someone will need to send you and invite (I think?) Gtalk the IM withit is very good, busy chatting to my sister-in-law in Oz now.
I think the old days of being invited during the beta testing phases are long gone.
I've had a quick go of Gtalk, and I wasn't that impressed to be honest. I still find Windows Live Messenger (MSN) or Skype a bit more feature rich. Each to their own of course.
I may be able to help. I can offer everything except support for Outlook 2003 although the email part of that program canot be much different to configure to Thunderbird. PM if interested.