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there are many email servers in the market and some good providers should be able toguide me through choosing them and also easy installation. can anybody give me idea of good providers

please?
 
errrm... Gmail?

Seriously, why are you looking for a provider when you can set up your own email server?
If there is a need for an email server then you might as well do it yourself.
 
MyWorld said:
errrm... Gmail?

Seriously, why are you looking for a provider when you can set up your own email server?
If there is a need for an email server then you might as well do it yourself.
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Agreed with Myworld......... gmail is a good option to go for. Even for business you have the google apps which gives you up to 10 accounts free, and then you pay per license after that. If you are looking for more advanced then also go for the positini services if it is for business. Gives you 10 years of archiving as a default.
 
+1 for gmail.

If you want to put your own domain you can use gmail as well. Its free for up to 50 users I think.
 
rohilwa said:
there are many email servers in the market and some good providers should be able toguide me through choosing them and also easy installation. can anybody give me idea of good providers

please?
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Agree with the previous post, give us a bit more of your requirements and we will be able to give you a better idea of what you should look in to. But in short if you want to host in the cloud then gmail is a good option with their google apps. This allows you to just "use" and not worry about all the other things that goes hand-in-hand with email serves, such spam, relaying, black listing of your domain things like that. The other good option of course is MS Live it integrates very well obviously with outlook as the client, it is basically an exchange server in the cloud. And of course with both you can still have your own domain name.
 
I have gmail and a personal hosted site with ann email address. both have imap so easy to deal with.
 
ghoti said:
+1 for gmail.

If you want to put your own domain you can use gmail as well. Its free for up to 50 users I think.
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Only 10 these days I think. But definitely go for a google apps setup!
 
For companies having more than 50 workers, gmail just won't cut it - you'll need to host your own email server otherwise the load on the adsl line will be too high.

Also, hosting your own email server means redundancy - you can still send/receive internal email should the adsl line go AWOL.

I'm using both Microsoft Exchange and ClearOS - two different sites. ClearOS is quite nice as it comes with a lot of features and will run great in a virtual machine without any hassles.
 
Kerio Connect a lot cheaper than Exchange, runs on various platforms and integrates nicely with Outlook, mobile phones etc
 
You could maybe look at postfix with amavisd-new, dovecot, spamassassin and clamav. There is a lot of documentation and it easily caters for 50 plus users when running on an old desktop computer. All the software is free but you may need to invest a lot of man hours to get it up an running. Also the solution lacks collaboration features such as calendar sharing.

Commercially you could look at Zimbra or Citadel. Zimbra basically uses all of the above, is more polished and has collaboration features built in.
 
Seems Gmail has it down now with the use of your own domain name. At least it would be easier to set up than my current dovecot and sendmail(haven't attempted postfix yet) Linux server.
 
koeksGHT said:
Seems Gmail has it down now with the use of your own domain name. At least it would be easier to set up than my current dovecot and sendmail(haven't attempted postfix yet) Linux server.
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I moved from an exchange server to Google Apps about 2 years ago. Basically as you say... GMail with your own domain. Never looked back.
 
Mike Smit said:
I moved from an exchange server to Google Apps about 2 years ago. Basically as you say... GMail with your own domain. Never looked back.
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and if i guess they don't provide a dotcoza, that is the only reason not to go with google.
 
For company that doesn't want to host on someone else's servers & want their own mail server, I would recommend Zimbra.
 
milomak said:
and if i guess they don't provide a dotcoza, that is the only reason not to go with google.
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You can use any domain, and it's relatively easy to setup. See how to setup here.

For small companies this is by far the easiest route. I got a free .co.za domain with my hosting at Afrihost, which only costs me R39 per month. So if you have less than 10 employees you can have your website hosting and mail handled for R39 per month. It's a bargain.
 
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