Hi folks..

I wanna give free email address to ppl via my website. I tried bigmailbox and everyone.net once but the thing is lots of banners, lots of pop-ups ( u can imagine)

What's this message got to do with dedicated servers ?

Well, My website will have at least 5,000 users and at least 3 MB storage for each. Is it better to run a website on a dedicated server or does anyone else has better idea ?

Please share with your experience with me, if anyone already involved in this kind of issue.

Thank you !

I've never used this, but if you want to consider something similar to everyone.net/bigmailbox, then maybe their paid offerings (without ads) might be good or http://www.netmongol.com

As far as running a dedicated server, well you'd have to deal with the spam complaints (not sure if you have to anyhow with these services). Not sure how that affects your server rental (if your provider and you would be having problems, etc.). I realize this doesn't exactly answer your question.

As Chicken said, unless you have a good connection with these users so they are not just strangers and unless you can trust them not to spam, it will be a huge pain dealing with spam complaints. And then what will end up happening is that your IP(s) will get blacklisted somewhere so you'll have not only the spam complaints but also complaints from the legit users that their mail isn't getting through.

Good points regarding SPAM.

To answer your question: This is definately an application you want to host dedicated. No need for managed; a tightly configured FreeBSD system will suit you well. SquirrelMail is a high-qaulity free program that'll run on your server.

Good luck with it.

Drew

Netmongul attempts to control SPAM by limiting outgoing mail to 20 recipients per mailing.

This is off-topic for d-servers but what the Hell. The problem is people who buy, say, one of our dial access accounts and then reference a return address on his free Web mail acct.

Drew