[TriLUG] OT: Personal Email Vendor Selection

[Jonathan Woodbury]

Igor, are you using Google Apps for Domains to accomplish this or just
forwarding your mail to Gmail?  My recommendation for those who want to use
their own domain would be to use a free Google Apps for Domains account,
assuming you can get away with 10 users or less.  You can still archive your
mail to your own server for backup purposes using IMAP.  You could even
forgo the Gmail interface and just use your favorite IMAP client and just
use Google for storage and queuing.

The one downside to using a Google Apps for Domains account is that the
users in that domain don't have access to any of Google's services that
requires a profile, such as Picasa and Google+.  This probably won't be the
case forever though.

Jonathan

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> Personally, I set up my own domain and made my address dependent on me, and
> not the provider. This way if I ever get tired of using GMail (which is
> great BTW, though I don't use POP3), I could easily switch, without
> burdening my friends, family and professional contacts with the chore of
> updating their address books.
>
> Igor
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Alan Sterger <asterger at earthlink.net
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello Listers,
> >
> > Need some help deciding on what vendor to choose for personal email.
> >
> > Currently with Earthlink, due to inertia.  I've had the same email
> address
> > more than 11 years.  The address appears on my resume.  While I don't
> mind
> > paying for value (spam filtering, availability, storage, web access,
> ...),
> > my "threshold of pain" was reached at Earthlink's current $40 pricing.
> >
> > The account is POP3 with 2 free addresses, 300MB on each.  They also
> offer
> > web access which is rarely used, I prefer POP3 for archiving/searching on
> my
> > own machine.  One client is Eudora OSE with the other Outlook Express.
> >
> > How are the free POP3 email vendors, Gmail or ... ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan Sterger
> > asterger at earthlink.net
> >
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