Best Email Service

[redrosephotos]

Morning and Merry Christmas!

I'm after some advice as to what email service I should move to? I have been using webmail for the last few months and whilst this is ok as it allows me to use my domain in the address - for example contactus@mycompany - it is quite limiting in the amount of data it holds and the signatures you can use.

Basically I'm looking for an email service where I can use my domain name in the address - not @hotmail. @gmail etc - and one that has plenty of space for me to store old emails etc. I'm also looking for a more in depth and professional service whereby I can create signature with links to the site and my facebook page. Webmail and roundcube are both free services with my hosting provider but both appear very limited in what they can offer, other than the domain name address.

Regards

Brent

 

[BusinessTeam]

Good evening,

Might be worth looking at a provider like www.123-reg.co.uk they offer a range of domain and email services.

Merry Christmas

Richard

 

[Paul_Rosser]

May be a bit overkill for you but rackspace do a hosted exchange for £6.75 per mailbox, per month.

You get 25gig of storage per mailbox, public folders, webmail and also a copy of Outlook so you can use that too.

 

[Annoying Donkey]

Morning and Merry Christmas!

I'm after some advice as to what email service I should move to? I have been using webmail for the last few months and whilst this is ok as it allows me to use my domain in the address - for example contactus@mycompany - it is quite limiting in the amount of data it holds and the signatures you can use.

Basically I'm looking for an email service where I can use my domain name in the address - not @hotmail. @gmail etc - and one that has plenty of space for me to store old emails etc. I'm also looking for a more in depth and professional service whereby I can create signature with links to the site and my facebook page. Webmail and roundcube are both free services with my hosting provider but both appear very limited in what they can offer, other than the domain name address.

Regards

Brent

Surely your hosting will provide pop3 or imap services? Webmail is usually just a front end to this.

If not, Gmail allows you to set up a 'send email as' where you can set it to any email address you own and everyone would see it as coming from [email protected]. Though any replies will be sent back to whatever you set this to. A forwarder could be set up to return it to gmail.

Setting up a separate email hosting would require updates to your DNS records, which if you don't have access to pop3/imap, then it's unlikely your hosting will allow access to DNS.

 

[Paul_Rosser]

Did you register the domain yourself ? (The bit after @) or did the email host set it up for you ?

 

[Deleted member 61074]

Personally i use Google Apps for my domain email. I've got several years of emails stored with the ability to buy more storage, it has a facility to add clickable signatures, and sort into folders etc.

You need to find out where your domain is registered and what access you have to DNS as you may want to host your website with one provider and your email with another.

 

[leemason]

Is it just you using this e-mail service or are there a number of users?

 

[redrosephotos]

Thanks for all the replies.

Website hosting is with Heart Internet and Domain registered with 123 reg. Heart Internet offer webmail and roundcube, both of which are poor from what I've experience with regards space and ability to create signatures etc.

Essentially I want an email service with plenty of space where I can create interactive signatures and be able to use the domain email address. If anyone has any advice on a good way of doing this I'd be most grateful.

Kind regards

Brent

 

[Annoying Donkey]

Thanks for all the replies.

Website hosting is with Heart Internet and Domain registered with 123 reg. Heart Internet offer webmail and roundcube, both of which are poor from what I've experience with regards space and ability to create signatures etc.

Essentially I want an email service with plenty of space where I can create interactive signatures and be able to use the domain email address. If anyone has any advice on a good way of doing this I'd be most grateful.

Kind regards

Brent

Heart Internet offer pop3 with their most basic hosting, so all you need is a client. Outlook or Thunderbird will do. Your welcome email should have information on how to set them up.

Thunderbird is free and has an advantage of good support for 'identities' - multiple different email addresses all sent from same client. Use forwarders (set up in cpanel) to forward all emails to same mailbox, so your client only needs to check once.

 

[Nuno]

Heart seems to offer POP and IMAP on even it's basic hosting, although you have to pay more for more storage.
As above it would be a good solution to forward to a gmail account which is set up to receive and send as the [email protected] account. This has the added benefit of using gmail antispam filters, I think. You get tons of space for free and signatures are easy.
Otherwise you can set up POP accounts or IMAP accounts on an email client. Outlook comes with Microsoft Office and is not the same as Outlook.com which bundles with Windows, and which you could also use. (Good old Microsoft - why make it simple when you can confuse people? I also have found Outlook.com acts as a flag for spam, but maybe that's just me.) Another client is Thunderbird which is good, and is from Mozilla who do Firefox.

Update: Beaten to it!

 

[Latebloomer]

Used 123-reg for domain and website creation...won't coming back again.
Used mailchimp...too restrictive.
Transferred to another mail service...too complicated.
Back to microsoft outlook...as saying goes "you never knew what you had till you loose it".

 

[Websitehandyman]

I can't recommend these guys enough https://www.fastmail.fm/

Not well known but owned by Opera the browser people. Been using them for over ten year and I only use the free option but for a small fee you can do the lot.

 

[redrosephotos]

Thanks for all the replies.

I'm sampling Google Apps for thirty days at the moment. It allows me to have an email address for my domain, with loads of space to save emails and create signatures.

I'll see how it goes and report back.

Regards

Brent

 

[solutionsgroup]

Heart will give you an exchange account for £5 per month which will enable you to setup your email on multiple devices (iPhone/ iPad/ android plus PC, laptop etc) and your emails will be kept in sync across the three.

You probably wouldn't have to change much to get it working and it wouldn't take long.

If you don't know how to do it heart have a support ticket system you can use and I have always found them very helpful.

Good luck

Ps I have a reseller (use it for my companies only) account with them so can answer any other questions you may have.

 

[Alan]

Now Google Apps is no longer free you can try Zoho https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html
5gb of space per user and 3 users per domain on the free account.

Been testing it out on a domain and seems very good, Zoho also have other 'cloud' products similar to Google Apps. https://www.zoho.com/

 

[The Cue Store]

When did this happen?

Now Google Apps is no longer free

 

[Alan]

Google Apps for businesses withdrew their free (less than 10 user option) Decemeber the 7th (from memory). Free business accounts set up prior are NOT being charged.