Ted Harding wrote:
I'm therefore asking if poeple can recommend a provider of email hosting on which I could have an account with IMAP access. I would want this to be of high quality and reliability and capable of handling high levels of incoming traffic (for various reasons, I can get up to 500 emails a day -- most of which I delete on the basis of the Subject alone, some others after a quick look at content, leaving typically some 5-10% to download; so I need to be able to do this quickly).
Recommendations?
I work for the co-op and don't think we'd regard 500/day as too high traffic, especially if most are being deleted before download. Our standard web+email hosting is currently priced at GBP 90/year and includes IMAP. http://www.software.coop/products/web/#hosting We monitor this and it shows 99.147% availability this year so far.
We are also agents for the phone co-op who include IMAP email access with ADSL services. http://www.software.coop/products/phone/ I've used this for years and it was unavailable for a few hours a few weeks ago, but it's not lost email and usually works for me.
And finally, if that's too expensive, I can offer email hosting including IMAP access from one of our suppliers at GBP 17 for the first year and about 4/year thereafter but I've never used it, so can't comment on its reliability.
http://www.software.coop/contact/ to ask about any of those, please.
Regards,