any reccomendations for a good hosted business email solution

[aniruddha23]

hey there SD'ers. I have been put in charge with getting our firm a new business email provider for a new domain that we bought. any reccomendations on which providers are good.

dont want somethign to expensive but would be nice to have something reliable. calendar synching etc would be a nice to have.

Wanted features
- Pop 3 email
- decent disk space per account (20 gigs?)
- reliability

nice to have
- calendar synching
- any other value added features.

we currently have 30 users on yahoo business email and it runs fine but nothing great.

would be great to get suggesstions/reccomendations.

 

[MrChad]

Google Apps sounds like it might be up your alley.

We use Mailstreet's hosted Exchange services with great results, but you won't get the disk space you're looking for.

 

[mikeyes]

I have used Dreamhost to host several businesses I do work for. They offer a standard web hosting plan that will get you POP3 email accounts, 500Gb of hosting space (that can be used as email storage) and alot more. Their reliability has been excellent and their support (while email based) is very knowledgeable and professional.

Link: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

If you do end up using them as a webhost use the PROMO code "10OFFTODAY" to get $10.00 off.

 

[aniruddha23]

one of the big items I am looking for but forgot to mention is support for IMAP.

doesnt look like the current version of google apps supports it.

all other hosts seem to have a similar set of features.

 

[mikeyes]

Most of the major hosting companies that you buy hosting plans from will support POP3 and IMAP. Dreamhost does support IMAP.

 

[capeconsultant]

www.hostmysite.com is an incredible hosting company. Dave

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: aniruddha23
one of the big items I am looking for but forgot to mention is support for IMAP.

doesnt look like the current version of google apps supports it.

all other hosts seem to have a similar set of features.

Gmail has just rolled out IMAP support