No Outgoing Email

An ISP (non FREE) email service is always more respectful than a free one, Gmail or not.
Any1 can get a free Gmail account, not everyone can get an iburst account or whatever.
 
PeterCH said:
An ISP (non FREE) email service is always more respectful than a free one, Gmail or not.
Any1 can get a free Gmail account, not everyone can get an iburst account or whatever.
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Good point. Which is why my @wbs.co.za account forwards to my Gmail, and my Gmail is set up to be able to reply on behalf of my @wbs...

Gmail also has a much more effective anti-spam system.
 
An ISP (non FREE) email service is always more respectful than a free one, Gmail or not.
Any1 can get a free Gmail account, not everyone can get an iburst account or whatever.
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hahahahaha you define iburst as a respectful email service??? 70% of the time my emails gets rebounded due to their service being marked as SPAM there's some respect for you!
 
fishfly said:
hahahahaha you define iburst as a respectful email service??? 70% of the time my emails gets rebounded due to their service being marked as SPAM there's some respect for you!
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The email is being marked as SPAM because their email servers rDNS is not set up properly. It would take me literally 5 minutes to fix it. I have to edit 3 lines in 2 files. I've sent them a number of emails about this. I've even explained in detail how to fix the problem. I've also offered my services in order to fix it. They still tell me there is no problem, its not them, and other rubbish!
 
PeterCH said:
An ISP (non FREE) email service is always more respectful than a free one, Gmail or not.
Any1 can get a free Gmail account, not everyone can get an iburst account or whatever.
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I thought about this, and it is a simple process to get your own domain, and use Google Apps to attach your domain to their Gmail, should you so wish. I'm sorry, but I use Gmail all the time, for personal and business, and wouldn't use iBurst's email if you paid me. When I did use it, it was slow, and the 10MB limit was just plain pitiful.
 
Raithlin said:
I thought about this, and it is a simple process to get your own domain, and use Google Apps to attach your domain to their Gmail, should you so wish. I'm sorry, but I use Gmail all the time, for personal and business, and wouldn't use iBurst's email if you paid me. When I did use it, it was slow, and the 10MB limit was just plain pitiful.
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I wasn't referring to the quality of service, just to the email address. If you can get your own domain, register it with your own name and data, and link it to Gmail, I'm sure that would work.

However most domain hosts, like these $5 per month hosts, offer 200GB storage services with their own email panels,
their own spam filters and so on. Why have Google read your email and keep it on their servers, when for R40 pm you can have a 20GB or 100GB mailbox
(IMAP/POP) and webbased too.

If you're dealing in business emails I think own domain or a non-free domain is a must. I would simply NOT trust any1 with a Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail account
to do confidential business or probably any business at all with. OK, they may know you from elsewhere but if you're hoping to attract business from the web, with all the Nigerian scams around a domain based or an ISP based email
is a must.

Yeah I know 10MB is crap. :) MWEB give you 2GB and it's local too, with a
decent anti-spam filter etc - it costs the same as iBurst.
 
fishfly said:
hahahahaha you define iburst as a respectful email service??? 70% of the time my emails gets rebounded due to their service being marked as SPAM there's some respect for you!
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Hehe, I'm not saying iBust is respectable itself, I'm saying that the email address @wbs.co.za looks better than @gmail.com or even @hotmail.com
- people can always type in www.iburst.co.za and see that it's not a free
provider but an ISP. Usually ISP's require real contact details and payment
which means the owner of the account is more likely legit than someone
who's using a free email provider, who maybe has no ISP other than an internet cafe in Lagos :).
 
PeterCH said:
If you're dealing in business emails I think own domain or a non-free domain is a must. I would simply NOT trust any1 with a Hotmail/Yahoo/Gmail account to do confidential business or probably any business at all with. OK, they may know you from elsewhere but if you're hoping to attract business from the web, with all the Nigerian scams around a domain based or an ISP based email is a must.
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Yes and no. Spam comes from everywhere. It is nothing for me to send an email that appears to come from cnn.com, for example. I think we all know that. However, knowing that I myself avoid even ISP-based addresses when looking for companies to use, I have to agree on this point. Having your own domain is crucial as a business with a (even only email) portal to the web. That said, you won't know (unless you check your email headers regularly - or use the appropriate add-on for Thunderbird ;)) where a particular domain's email is hosted - you simply have to go on trust, something which is intrinsic in most business relationships anyway.
 
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