Vodacom e-mail...facelift anyone

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Vodacom e-mail is great service with sms reminders etc, pop3 access
Coudnt Vodacom design a special website just for email for wap and for normal desktop access? Just an idea...

I find going into the Vodacome4me site abit of a pain at times. A website just for e-mail with your email address and password as access details simple!
 
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SUPERMAN89 said:
Vodacom e-mail is great service with sms reminders etc, pop3 access
Coudnt Vodacom design a special website just for email for wap and for normal desktop access? Just an idea...

I find going into the Vodacome4me site abit of a pain at times. A website just for e-mail with your email address and password as access details simple!
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...then we going to pay...
 
P0is3nIvy said:
...then we going to pay...
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Shouldn't really. vodamail.co.za already points to vodacom4me.co.za - simply set the two domains up one their own. Any bandwidth used by email users on vodacom4me would be transferred to the seperate vodamail.co.za domain. Sure, there'll be small one off cost in setting up the new domains frontend, but it can simply work off the existing interface and not be done from scratch.
 
Well Apple has the iStore, Nokia has Ovi (mosh), so Vodacom has Vodacom4me. I think that's the idea - to get you to use it and to login and click and so forth.
 
The prob is VC started out as a telephone company, so the internet is still "new" to them. So building from scratch is going to be a helluva task for them.
 
vodacom3g said:
Explain more what the requirement is?
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i think he means:

Having a dedicated website for the free and paid email service offered by Vodacom instead of having to go through the current vodacom4me.co.za site to get to your account.
For example, www.vodamail.co.za or something similar as the domain for dedicated email website. Users logon with just their email username and pass to gain access.
 
P0is3nIvy said:
So building from scratch is going to be a helluva task for them.
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You think so?
I would think that pulling the email portion of the VC4ME.co.za site out and running it on a new domain wouldn't take too much effort. But then again, sounds like a bit of a mission when it's already running on one site. I'm not a user of the VC email service so I can't comment on the ease of use or not.

P0is3nIvy said:
...like googlemail and yahoomail
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Yeah, I think that's just the idea :)
 
Gamer said:
i think he means:

Having a dedicated website for the free and paid email service offered by Vodacom instead of having to go through the current vodacom4me.co.za site to get to your account.
For example, www.vodamail.co.za or something similar as the domain for dedicated email website. Users logon with just their email username and pass to gain access.
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Yeah thats more aless what i mean, a dedicated site just for vodamail in which you can view in html and wml/xhtml (mobile) format.

I believe having a dedicated site would help create a better image towards the product and more over make the product look serious and not just another function together with the rest found on the vodacom4me site.
 
SUPERMAN89 said:
Vodacom e-mail is great service with sms reminders etc, pop3 access
Coudnt Vodacom design a special website just for email for wap and for normal desktop access? Just an idea...

I find going into the Vodacome4me site abit of a pain at times. A website just for e-mail with your email address and password as access details simple!
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In the meantime, try www.mail2web.com

It's fast and it's FREE! :cool:

However, it does not allow for POP etc., but it's still extremely handy to use, especially from, say, internet cafés.
 
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With Vodacom's relationship with Google since they are using the search appliances and plan to market them from a Vodacom Business perspective , would it not be better if Google were to come to Vodacom and offer a branded email service but with the same look and feel of Google (the back-end and storage side would then simply tie in with Vodacoms Vodamail infrastructure) whilst making the site accessible to handheld devices and / or PC based web-browsers.

vodacom3g said:
OK, request in pipeline and active.

Now, don't ask when it'll be done. Or else I might just use the dreaded 'E' word. :eek:
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fismail said:
With Vodacom's relationship with Google since they are using the search appliances and plan to market them from a Vodacom Business perspective , would it not be better if Google were to come to Vodacom and offer a branded email service but with the same look and feel of Google (the back-end and storage side would then simply tie in with Vodacoms Vodamail infrastructure) whilst making the site accessible to handheld devices and / or PC based web-browsers.
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It sounds like a plan, but I don't think Vodacom will hand over control of their email systems to Google, or just shut it down.

A lot of people use Vodamail as their primary email for business and home use + you can have premium mail, so Vodacom would be throwing away money if they went for a Google solution....and what if Google decides to charge Vodacom for it in the future....it can get messy.

*Vodamail is already on my handheld device. :)
 
Fair enough but since Vodacom is now part of Vodafone (well 65% of it at least) and Vodafone is a rather large player , why not do a amalgamation of common services (share in the spoils than be the sole dominant player) or is Google trying to pull a Microsoft on us.

What is to stop Google in future from being just as dominant as Vodafone in mobile cellephony and vice versa with their Android system.

http://www.android.com/

kingrob said:
It sounds like a plan, but I don't think Vodacom will hand over control of their email systems to Google, or just shut it down.

A lot of people use Vodamail as their primary email for business and home use + you can have premium mail, so Vodacom would be throwing away money if they went for a Google solution....and what if Google decides to charge Vodacom for it in the future....it can get messy.

*Vodamail is already on my handheld device. :)
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