[OT] E-mail provider recommendations

[Spiros Denaxas]

On 10/25/07, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/25/07, Spiros Denaxas <spiros at lokku.com> wrote:
> > On 10/25/07, Paul Makepeace <paulm at paulm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 7/22/07, Dave Hodgkinson <davehodg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 22 Jul 2007, at 14:23, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
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> > > > >> What is it about Google that doesn't tick all your boxes?
> > > > >
> > > > > No IMAP?
> > > >
> > > > IMAP is evil.
> > > >
> > > > Google DTRT IMHO: KISS, POP3[0] and leave on the server.
> > >
> > > Gmail is rolling out (free) IMAP,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/sync-your-inbox-across-devices-with.html
> > >
> > > P
> >
> >
> > Gmail is definitely getting better and better: major storage space
> upgrade,
> > IMAP, better filters etc etc. The only major drawback unfortunately is
> that
> > no matter what, its still in 'beta'. Google does not offer any kind of
> SLA
> > and/or guarantee that it will work or that they will resolve any
> potential
> > issues you might have with it.
>
> The support team has direct access to us at the production backend
> plus there's all sorts of response metrics in place they have on
> resolving issues. There is also an SLA for premium edition which has a
> pretty reasonable (IMO :)) annual fee (and now 25GB of storage). We
> also internally track a huge array of Gmail uptime, latency, error
> types, etc stats.
>
>
> http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/129339/first_look_google_apps_premier_edition.html
>
> The beta thing.. well, watch this space :-)



You are right, I had completely forgot the premium version of it, an option
definitely worth looking into. :)

Spiros

p.s. yep, the prices are reasonable imho too

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