Any good email service suggestion ?

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dutox101 join:2010-01-02	Any good email service suggestion ? I am looking for a good email service provider that I can use with my own domain that is reliable and affordable. Any suggestions ? Thanks.
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Dcite join:2006-05-12 Mississauga, ON	Assuming that you can prove your domain name is yours by editing DNS records the way google requests it. You can set up your own domain name with google apps to use gmail as backend.
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MichelR join:2011-07-03 Ottawa, ON	said by Dcite: Assuming that you can prove your domain name is yours by editing DNS records the way google requests it. You can set up your own domain name with google apps to use gmail as backend. I do this for two of my domains - going on nearly a year now without any problems - and it's free for 10 users or less (used to be 50 - my accounts are "grandfathered" so I'm still at 50). I used to use the web hosting company's e-mail server, but that's not exactly a priority for such companies and there were sometimes lost e-mails. Not often, but enough. You'll hear the usual "Google reads your e-mail" crap, but ultimately that's just a machine looking for keywords and delivering ads. E-mails using "normal" mail servers are all plain text and can be read by any admin with access to one of the mail servers that your e-mail goes through to reach its destination, so it doesn't matter who you go with: E-mails cannot be considered private.
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HoboJ join:2008-03-27 Carrying Place, ON kudos:1 Reviews: ·TekSavvy DSL	reply to Dcite said by Dcite: Assuming that you can prove your domain name is yours by editing DNS records the way google requests it. You can set up your own domain name with google apps to use gmail as backend. Been doing this for 4 years now. It's a rock solid service and I've got no complaints at all about it.
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FiReSTaRT Premium join:2010-02-26 Canada Reviews: ·Velcom ·TekSavvy Cable ·Rogers Hi-Speed ·Bell Sympatico ·voip.ms	It's not that Google reads your mail.. They're based in a country where they are mandated into giving various 3-letter agencies constant and full access to your mail. Every e-mail you send/receive ends up being analyzed. Yes, it's all automated, but still. In case of my family business, we have several foreign clients and even one foreign government. I am sure they would not like the idea of all of our correspondence being on the record in the US no matter how friendly the two countries are. -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. —George Bernard Shaw
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Dcite join:2006-05-12 Mississauga, ON	Won't encrypted emails solve that issue? You can still get to the encrypted form via imap, but another program will need to decrypted to read.
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JCohen Premium join:2010-10-19 Nepean, ON kudos:2	reply to dutox101 Google apps, I've been using it for years without any issues.
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FiReSTaRT Premium join:2010-02-26 Canada Reviews: ·Velcom ·TekSavvy Cable ·Rogers Hi-Speed ·Bell Sympatico ·voip.ms	reply to Dcite said by Dcite: Won't encrypted emails solve that issue? You can still get to the encrypted form via imap, but another program will need to decrypted to read. Encrypted may work if both wanna bother with encrypting and decrypting. Try to teach a foreign national who barely speaks enough English to get by on how to properly encrypt his mail. Then, there are the constant improvements in technology that make decrypting yesterday's encryption easy today and today's encryption tomorrow. I sleep better if Uncle Sam doesn't have my private or business mail saved forever, tyvm -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. —George Bernard Shaw
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NWOhio join:2011-10-25 Toledo, OH	that can be taken care of with Uncle Sam- don't do business with Google's email servers and you won't have that problem.
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Works for me @cox.net	reply to dutox101 Fastmail.
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Storage_Guy join:2006-04-30 Toledo, OH	reply to dutox101 »www.hushmail.com And they are based in Canada
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FiReSTaRT Premium join:2010-02-26 Canada Reviews: ·Velcom ·TekSavvy Cable ·Rogers Hi-Speed ·Bell Sympatico ·voip.ms	reply to NWOhio said by NWOhio: that can be taken care of with Uncle Sam- don't do business with Google's email servers and you won't have that problem. Exactly.. That's why we don't use them for our business e-mail needs. Might even host our own server for increased security. -- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. —George Bernard Shaw
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zorxd join:2010-02-05 Quebec, QC	reply to dutox101 +1 for gmail/google apps/google for your domain or whatever it is called.
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Guspaz Guspaz Premium,MVM join:2001-11-05 Montreal, QC kudos:16	reply to dutox101 I'd say Google Apps, but if you exceed the 10 user limit, it's not cheap. $50 per account per year, and that applies to all of them. So you get: 9 accounts - $0/yr 10 accounts - $0/yr 11 accounts - $550/yr 12 accounts - $600/yr etc... But if you're willing to pay for it (and Google Apps is a pretty sweet complete solution), or fit in the 10-account free version, it's good. EDIT: There's also a $5/month/account option, but it's more expensive in the long run. -- Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org
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JCohen Premium join:2010-10-19 Nepean, ON kudos:2	If you get a domain from »www.name.com/ they give you a free 50 user Google apps account.
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Guspaz Guspaz Premium,MVM join:2001-11-05 Montreal, QC kudos:16	reply to dutox101 That's not advertised anywhere on their site, except being mentioned in their FAQ, which doesn't list the account number limits. I wouldn't count on that sticking around... If they're keeping such a feature hidden and not advertising it, it can't be long for this world. -- Developer: Tomato/MLPPP, Linux/MLPPP, etc »fixppp.org
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dutox101 join:2010-01-02	reply to dutox101 Thanks for all the good suggestions. How hard would it be for me to run my own email server instead ? I need minimal features and I don't receive a lot of emails but I want it to be economical and ideally not hosted in the us because of eavesdropping...
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franch join:1999-11-03 Canada	I've used google apps for a couple of years now and am okay with it. I don't like seeing ads now when I'm surfing that relate to the contents of my emails. Constant reminder that google has too much information on me. There's also Windows Live Hotmail which you can setup with a custom domain. They have a higher user limit than google apps. It's possible to setup your own server, but you have to be careful if you're running it on a residential IP address because some SPAM databases will blacklist residential IP's making delivery of your email suspect.
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