On 04 Sep 18:41, Ted Harding wrote:
Hi Folks, Since it appears that Manchester University has taken a decision that its retired folk shall now be obsolete, email-wise, it is very likely that my current email account will be de-activated soon (I'm already using it on borrowed time). So I shall be looking for a new email address.
I'm very happy (in terms of general quality of service) with my ISP (Zen) and would not want to change. However, Zen's email only offers POP3 download and does not offer IMAP access. The webmail interface is clunky and slow, so preliminary sampling and deletion of delivered emails would be very tedious. On the other hand, previewing using IMAP (when it works properly) is very fast.
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?
As it appears that you're going to want a webmail system as well, then the current usual would be gmail (note, however, that I don't trust gmail with my mail, but mail for the company I'm currently contracting for all goes via gmail, so meh).
As the addage goes, though, you get whats you pay for, so if you've got no problems with the evil that is google indexing all your mail and using it to advertise at you, then that's the way forwards... if you really care about your mail, then the right way forwards is to setup your own mail server (or get a domain and a friend that has a well setup mailserver, and pay for some of their time/resources).
Personally I've been running my own mailserver for as long as I've had this domain name, which must be getting on a few years now... Oh, only 7 years... and I certainly wouldn't go back to using a service provider to look after it. With the volumes you're talking, a small virtual machine would be more than enough to handle it. I haven't checked on how many mails I get a day in a long time, but it looks like I reject 720 a day without even thinking about it, which given this is just my personal mail isn't bad going... infact, it appears from a quick run of eximstats that I reject about twice as much mail as I accept, and I'm not even doing particularly complex spam filtering (literally, I'm using clamav with the sane security sigs, and a few other SMTP time checks as my main barrier to spam, if I added in dspam to the mix again, I'd probably be rejecting even more stuff at SMTP time... having that level of control over what happens to my mail is something that I really like, though.
Cheers,