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Ask HN: E-mail providers other than Google Apps?
Our company currently hosts about 100 clients on a cPanel/WHM setup.
Due to challenges in regard to spam and security, we want to get our clients' e-mail accounts off of our server an onto a dedicated e-mail hosting service. Some of our clients already use Google Apps for Mail and it works well for them, however, I am wondering if there is a solution that would make the transfer of e-mail accounts from our server easier than Google Apps seems to allow.
Any recommendations for a good IMAP-based e-mail hosting service?
- stephenr 14y agoDo you need webmail for day to day use, or will they use a real email client?
- brandon272 14y agoBoth.
- michaelbuddy 14y agoCheck out Zimbra yet? They have open source and enterprise solutions. http://www.zimbra.com/products/pricing.html http://www.zimbra.com/products/pricing.html Also look at Fastmail options. https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/business.html https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/business.html I'd call / email to negotiate prices with them. Why pay what's just listed on their site? If your users are mostly hands-off in terms of support maybe getting a discount is feasible.
- ark15 14y agoHave you tried Zoho? http://www.zoho.com/mail/ http://www.zoho.com/mail/
- 6cxs2hd6 14y agoMy previous company migrated from Exchange Server to Google Apps and we found Google's migration tools to work well and to be well-documented. They provide a tool to do it at the server level https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=172212 https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=..., which sounds like what you would want, as well as a tool for individual users to do it themselves. Note that the server-oriented tool is named "for Microsoft Exchange" but it's actually for any IMAP server.
- skram 14y agoTake a look at http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/ http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/ . I have a client I do freelancing for on there and they have great support and a pretty good control panel for both you and your users. Ability to do a hybrid setup with IMAP and Exchange under the same domain.