Ask HN: What mail host do you use?
I'm trying to get away from Gmail dependency, and I'd love input on other hosting solutions.
Things to consider: price, custom domain names, storage size.
Things to consider: price, custom domain names, storage size.
Only downside: Even with a custom domain, you need a family/business plan to have jabber at your own domain instead of theirs.
$2/month/mailbox (minimum $10/month).
100% uptime SLA. I have experienced no downtime in some years.
24/7/365 support, by phone/email/webchat. If you need to talk to someone at 2AM on Christmas day, you can.
25GB mailboxes, IMAP push and POP3, configurable backups, good spam filters.
Price: Already paying for internet connection anyway.
Custom domain name: Necessary - but not that expensive anymore.
Storage size: limited only by how much storage I'm willing to buy.
I briefly had OSX server running a mail server for my small team. I quickly realized how spoiled I was by Gmail. Basic mail server setup was easy enough. But, managing things like out of office auto responders, server based mail filters, password resets, etc all required my attention. IMAP doesn't handle those tasks, and I'm not aware of a way for users to do those tasks themselves.
I went back to Google for mail hosting, but will be investigating the other services below. (I'm still a free Google Apps user, so it's hard to move off of free).