The company I work for has are email hosting through a company called Network Solutions (http://www.networksolutions.com). We are a tool company and we get rather large emails on the regular bases. The largest email box size that network solutions offers is two gig. We have several employees that are reaching that limit fairly often. Can someone recommend another company that can host are email? We need 20 to 30 email accounts. We have are own email domain. I don't want to back to running Microsoft Exchange. I would prefer an imap email system as we have a few employees that use laptops when they are off site. So I need there emails to sync between multiple computers. Any ideas? Thanks.
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mdhmi
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Office365.com (Microsoft's cloud based Outlook/Office offering) or Google have inexpensive business options that would meet your needs.
A better technical solution would be to use a cloud file storage service such as Syncplicity or Dropbox and not send huge email attachments.
A better technical solution would be to use a cloud file storage service such as Syncplicity or Dropbox and not send huge email attachments.
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This would be your best option. You get a 50 GB mailbox with them. With Office 365 you also get a licensed copy of Outlook 2013 with the mailbox, which is convenient.
And using something like Dropbox keeps those large attachments from crapping up your message stores. While it can do it, using email as a file transfer mule is generally frowned upon. Plus, a lot of those large email attachment services allow you to track that attachment, see who downloaded it and when, and delete/expire it after a certain period of time.
I took a brief look at office 365 this afternoon. It looks promising. One thing I am looking for is email access from multiple computers. I did not see that with office 365. I very well might of missed that in my brief look. When I send emails I keep them under ten meg in size. I have found a number of companies have blocked them from being larger then that. For larger items I use dropbox, wetransfer, or see if my customer has an ftp site to use. Another thing I am worried about is getting everybody's emails transferred over to a new email host system. Is office 365 an imap email system? Do I need to use outlook? Can I use mozilla thunderbird instead?
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Office 365 can be accessed from an internet device. Google mail is another valid option.
https://www.google.com/work/apps/bu...-us&utm_term=pid_76516653-cid_0-aid_252449664
https://www.google.com/work/apps/bu...-us&utm_term=pid_76516653-cid_0-aid_252449664
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We have several very large customers that use Google mail. Office 365 is more expensive than Google for sure.
You can sync Google with your AD environment also, same passwords etc.
You can sync Google with your AD environment also, same passwords etc.
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Look at an option like sharefile (http://www.sharefile.com/). It's a secure version of Drop Box which allows you to send anyone a link to a file which the person can then download. Large files then don't stay in email.
Office 365 will support IMAP, so you can go with their cheap $4 mailbox option and use Thunderbird if you'd like, or use Outlook Web Access. It supports ActiveSync as well, so smartphones can get email on them also.
Email transfer concerns? MigrationWiz. I've used it on a half dozen clients that have migrated from in-house email to Office 365, and it works great. It allows you to do multiple passes on a mailbox, and if you plan it out well you can minimize user downtime. Also, MigrationWiz works if you were going to Google Mail as well.
I talked to management the other day about going to office 365. I was looking at the option that includes the email box and the full version of office. Are office suite situation is kind of a mess. We have some users using office 2003, a few using office 2013, and a couple using open office. It would be kind of nice to get everyone using the same office suite.
O365 Business goes for $8.25/month for a one year commitment. Considering that Office '13 costs a couple hundred dollars itself, it makes more sense to do it that way. The only time customers don't do that is if they have a system or plugin that won't work with the newer version of Outlook. Sometimes they are too cheap to upgrade their internal apps.