| More reason's not to use an ISP's email service May not be able to keep your email address if you move or switch providers, takeover/name changes (Cox vs @home) and upgrade issues like like this. |
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 banditws6Shrinking Time and DistancePremium
join:2001-08-18
Frisco, TX
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Agreed. I always use email addresses at my own domains because I can take them somewhere else (or forward them) if the mail server I'm using gets spotty, goes under or experiences outages.
Not to mention, the thought of conducting business -- especially with high-value customer accounts -- over ISP email makes me shudder.
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 bentand IngaPremium
join:2004-10-04
Loveland, CO
·Comcast
| said by banditws6:Agreed. I always use email addresses at my own domains because I can take them somewhere else (or forward them) if the mail server I'm using gets spotty, goes under or experiences outages. Not to mention, the thought of conducting business -- especially with high-value customer accounts -- over ISP email makes me shudder. Don't a lot of ISPs offer domain/email hosting as part of their packages? It sounds like it's time to point the MX records elsewhere. Rackspace offers some very nice very reliable email hosting plans that can fit into any SMB budget. If you're using email as a mission critical application you need to know 3 little letters: SLA.
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 FBGuyyippee ki yayPremium
join:2005-03-19
·Comcast
 ·T-Mobile US
 ·AT&T U-Verse
| this is not for you tinfoil hat wearing folk but google has google apps. i've had my domain on there for awhile. its free so take it for what its worth. there are paid versions that have a bit more of a guarantee.
»www.google.com/apps/intl/en/nonp···dex.html
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| I was just about to mention Google Apps. Sure, you have to pay for a domain registration, but that's only a few bucks a year, and the standard version of Apps is free. And if you're a school or nonprofit org, you can get the education edition free as well.
As for those wearing tinfoil hats, if a government agency wants access to your e-mail, it isn't gonna matter if you use Google or something else. Not that you can't do things to protect your privacy, but hosting mail with Google isn't going to expose you to any more risk than hosting with anyone else. If you want privacy, forget about the provider you use and get some strong encryption on your computer and e-mail. |
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