Oh dear, I thought I was asking a straightforward question! See below.
On 05-Sep-10 11:55:32, Brett Parker wrote:
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).
No, I don't particularly want a webmail system! The point about Zen & webmail is that with Zen it is either the webmail interface or pulling the mail (in entirety) by POP3. I've used the webmail interface only when I've had to (e.g. the Manchester server was down and I've asked people to temporarily send to my Zen address instead). I want IMAP as my standard access method.
Also (as I've since explained) I don't want google either (for the reasons you state below, Brett, and for other reasons too).
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). [...]
As I've also since explained, my time is short and I don't want to get involved at this moment in experimenting with setting up my own domain and mail server!
The question was simple (see above): 2I'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 ... "
So, whom do people recommend? (I'm quite willing to pay ... ) Ted.
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