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I'm one of those who needs to upgrade and the pre sales part is hell. Either your not big enough to get any priority. They never reply. Or the costs are just t

I'm one of those who needs to upgrade and the pre sales part is hell. Either your not big enough to get any priority. They never reply. Or the costs are just too stupid for a personal account with 5-10 mailboxes. I host on-prem too, via colocation which then increases the cost ten-fold. It's as these companies don't want customers. Liked the look to IceWarp suite and yet they've been non-existence in sales that I end up expecting though out.

godzillabrennus 3y ago
https://proton.me/mail https://proton.me/mail Has improved a lot if you can tolerate third party hosted (but still privacy centric solutions).
CableNinja 3y ago
Ive been using the free Axigen version for years, pretty good, no shenanigans
- doublerabbit 3y ago
  Thank you. I'm really looking forward to trying their suite out. Ticks all the right boxes.
dspillett 3y ago
My needs have changed a lot over the years. I no longer run company email for DayJob¹, and for the server I ran for myself, family & friends, I've jammed together a mail server³ from standard parts. I still have Zimbra running behind a firewall (those who need access do so via SSH tunnel) for archive access, in case anything didn't transfer cleanly to the new arrangement and for things I didn't bother transferring. ---- [1] since we've grown we have infrastructure/support people who look after that instead of muggins here doing everything, and we've long since² moved over to O365 [2] at least one buy-out ago [3] the number of actual users⁴ is down to me and three others, and we barely used features beyond mail in the end [4] more accounts used by those human users
tbyehl 3y ago
At that scale, Synology NAS running MailPlus can be very cost-effective. Comes with five mailboxes. Buy two, activate MailPlus High Availablity — which also pools the mailbox licenses, and you're set for 10 mailboxes over the +/- 8 years they'll actively support the device. With the rest of their software suite it can tick all the boxes tho the lack of a MAPI/EAS implementation is a miss.

godzillabrennus 3y ago

https://proton.me/mail https://proton.me/mail Has improved a lot if you can tolerate third party hosted (but still privacy centric solutions).

CableNinja 3y ago

Ive been using the free Axigen version for years, pretty good, no shenanigans

doublerabbit 3y ago
Thank you. I'm really looking forward to trying their suite out. Ticks all the right boxes.

dspillett 3y ago

My needs have changed a lot over the years. I no longer run company email for DayJob¹, and for the server I ran for myself, family & friends, I've jammed together a mail server³ from standard parts. I still have Zimbra running behind a firewall (those who need access do so via SSH tunnel) for archive access, in case anything didn't transfer cleanly to the new arrangement and for things I didn't bother transferring. ---- [1] since we've grown we have infrastructure/support people who look after that instead of muggins here doing everything, and we've long since² moved over to O365 [2] at least one buy-out ago [3] the number of actual users⁴ is down to me and three others, and we barely used features beyond mail in the end [4] more accounts used by those human users

tbyehl 3y ago

At that scale, Synology NAS running MailPlus can be very cost-effective. Comes with five mailboxes. Buy two, activate MailPlus High Availablity — which also pools the mailbox licenses, and you're set for 10 mailboxes over the +/- 8 years they'll actively support the device. With the rest of their software suite it can tick all the boxes tho the lack of a MAPI/EAS implementation is a miss.