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Re: More reason's not to use an ISP's email service 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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Greedy Old Pigs |
| 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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