Who to Use for EMAIL

[Larry Tew]

I'm using Godaddy. Works fine.

 

[Newby]

Yahoo is one of the worst services to use if you're receiving insurance related communications. They are notorious for blocking senders who they deem are spamming. "Insurance" is one of their keywords for spam.
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Sounds like a plus to me. I hate spam. I don't send it. I don't read it. I don't want it.

 

[JCK818]

Wow, had no idea the google service was free. I was reading up on it and couldn't find a price. So figured they wii screw me somehow. I will give them a try. Thank you all so much
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OK, stupid quiestion on the gmail. How do I get the free version. I just keep getting to the page where it wants to charge me $50 bucks

 

[BestInsurance]

We use Google Apps which includes Gmail...Suggest using the Free version versus the per seat (mistake on our part). But very happy with it and everything comes from 'yourdomain.com'.

Start paid email subscription with Google, then cancel it. You will get the same thing, but for free. Actually Gmail on "yourdomain.com" is free, the limitation is 7Gb of storage.

 

[BestInsurance]

Yahoo is one of the worst services ...

And Business Yahoo also has following pitfall. I think they allow about 200 outgoing emails per day only (I don't remember exact number, I can find it out on Tuesday if someone need). If you need more emails, you have to buy more accounts. GMail has limit of 2000 outgoing email per account.

 

[BestInsurance]

Sounds like a plus to me. I hate spam. I don't send it. I don't read it. I don't want it.

We all do hate it. But from Yahoo's perspective - you obviously are spammer. And it is very difficult to prove the contrary.
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OK, stupid quiestion on the gmail. How do I get the free version. I just keep getting to the page where it wants to charge me $50 bucks

I do NOT know how to do it from the beginning. I just started with paid (use real credit card) and then downgraded it to free. Frankly speaking I didn't want to downgrade it, but they made user interface very confusing (intentionally, I guess ), so I bought 2 more accounts (4 total), which would cost me $200/year (I was happy to pay them $100/year though). I wanted to reduce # of accounts I bought and found out that the only way to do it is to downgrade to freeware version. Well, it wasn't really the thing I wanted, but later I compared free/paid and found out that the difference is:
a) paid has service I don't actually use.
b) free has storage space of 7Gb, vs paid's 25Gb. After about of 2 months of use I have 2068 emails in my account and it is still "You are currently using 17 MB (0%) of your 7491 MB".

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I thought when you buy a domain, you get the email free. Maybe I'm thinking of hosting. But I know I don't pay for email.

 

[BestInsurance]

Usually email is included into hosting packages. I have it included in my hosting package, I started to use it but abandoned later - too many emails were marked and delivered as "spam". Setting up an email server is a big job for a very knowledgeable system administrator, but changing hosting as well as email providers back and forth is good way to lose valuable information, customers, yada yada. Also, my hosting provider allowed POP3 only (and doesn't want to change anything), Google offers IMAP. So host your web site almost wherever you want, keep email:
a) at your hosting provider OR
b) if your hosting provider in unreliable and you have problems with email (type, delivery, etc) - at Google.

 

[somarco]

Free email is worth what you pay for it. I have used a paid service for years and it is much better than my free accounts. Gmail got spam almost from the first day and seems to be a spam magnet. I haven't used AOL in years but that is another spam magnet.

The account that comes with my ISP is decent but I have everything forwarded to my paid account that filters out at least 90% of the spam that originates with Gmail and my ISP account.

There are also "freebies" like virus protection included in my paid account.

 

[CHUMPS FROM OXFORD]

I'm very lucky in that I get a ton of email and virtually no spam. Maybe one every few days. Just lucky, I presume.