Some basic questions concerning everyone.net - I browsed around their site and couldn't find the answers to these questions...

When you use everyone.net are you allowing anyone to get an email account at your domain name? Do you have control over setting up new users at all? If you setup/add users and they want to change their password can they do that or do you have to do it for them?

I am assuming from the research that I've done that everyone.net is a very good service? Are there any that do it better?

thanks,
jericho

I've never had experience with them, but intended to... yet still haven't implemented it.

I think everyone.net allows anyone who can find your signup URL to signup for their own mail@yourdomain.com. I think the only control you have for signups is that you can add a list of names that you want to save and not let some people register. This will be good because you don't want anyone to imitate anyone who are involved with the development of that site or whatever... like webmaster@yourdomain.com or support@yourdomain.com

Everyone.net mail is like Hotmail, i think.. the users of the email accounts are allowed to change their passwords, but i don't think you have access to changing their password (maybe you do)

There's also another service similar to everyone.net...
http://www.bigmailbox.com

g'luck

I am also interested in everyone.net. A question for anyone out there...can you set up mailing lists w/ everyone.net similar to yahoogroups if you're the admin?

Thanks!

Things about everyone.net...

Users can sign up for name@yourdomain.com. Your MX records will change to point to the everyone.net servers, so mail will not come to your server at all - if you have a catchall/default address, it will cease to function. You can restrict/reserve certain names at your domain: webmaster, admin, and so on are the most common - anything that would indicate an ownership relation to your domain.

Their user options include:
User defined filters and SPAM blocking
POP mail retrieval
Create personal signature
Personalize outgoing mail with aliases and reply addresses
Edit and update personal profile
Change password anytime

The Express "Plug-In Email", as they call it, offers the site owner 50% of the banner ads. The Pro version offers the domain owner 100% of the banner ads, and no other advertising will appear from everyone.net partners or everyone.net themselves.

They do offer a way to contact users, via their control center, but it's more an email to all users type thing, as things like vBulletin offer, rather than a true mailing list.

There are other third party email providers out there, but I don't think any of them offer the range of features that everyone.net do. I'd say that maybe 10% or so of our clients use everyone.net and are quite pleased with the services they receive.

If you are an end user/web host customer it is great. We have been supporting it for some time, and our customers love. As a web host I would caution advertising you offer it to sell service. We use to do this. Then on day I went into ours (we us to offer everyone.net as our web host web mail until we got our own.) and noticed banners saying "Is your host down"? and "Looking for a new host?" "$9.95 hosting". Ingenious advertising. I believe they were A Plus nets ads, but I may be wrong.

We called Everyone.net and asked why they don't target the ads. They said they would some day. Because of this free advertising for my competition, we stopped offering it. This may have changed.

Dogma, in your admin control panel you can mass mail to all users who use your free web based email.

One of the problems with everyone.net is that your own mail accounts must be web based aswell. You don't get any pop3 accounts. It also takes longer for you to receive your mail as their servers are full of incoming and outgoing mail so it can slow down a fair bit.

I set up an account with them, converted my MX records to their servers and used them for a day to find my emails were taking far too long for me to receive them. So in the I switched my MX records back and I'm just using my original setup now.

If I decide to offer free web based email in the future I may purchase the scripts for one and run it on my own servers.

I have been using everyone.net e-mail service for several of my domains. There are a few things that I do not like about the service. I will discuss three:

1. I cannot save the e-mail messages to your computer. (I believe this wasn't a problem in the past.) In order to save the messages, I would have to copy & paste.

2. The mail filtering functions is a joke. It doesn't really work.

3. After everyone.net started running the stupid java applet advertisement "punch the monkey", Netscape users have encountered problems in that their sessions would crash.

I can go on, but what do I expect from a free service. I had thought about paying a monthly fee to get rid of advertisements, but all the flaws will still be around... thus, no incentive for me to switch.

Oh, I had inquired to everyone.net as to whether or not I can control new user signups, but I got no response. It's just to show that everyone.net doesn't really care about the small business operations. With bigmailbox, e-mail responses are relatively fast.