> I wonder if someone can come up with a proper paid competitor to gmail, it would be something I would be interested in. What are the current alternatives? If

> I wonder if someone can come up with a proper paid competitor to gmail, it would be something I would be interested in. What are the current alternatives? If you only do webmail, nobody else really compares. If you're OK with a native client and IMAP/POP, then Rackspace Mail is #1. 100% uptime SLA, good spam filtering, 24/7/365 phone/online support, big 25GB mailboxes, and just $2 per user.