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[guiser]

Hello all,
In your personal experience, who are the top-tier email (not web) hosting providers these days?

I'm looking for a new email host (not a script to install myself) with full featured Web 2.0-ish webmail interface (think interfaces like Yahoo, but that let me use my own domains); with a price and features comparable to GoDaddy ($30 per year, 100+ accounts, 2GB+ storage, unlimited domains).

GoDaddy is my current email host, but I'm having some issues with their service (the GoDaddy haters in the crowd are shocked I'm sure). Using “Google Apps for Domains” is also out of the equation because the arrogant Google engineers refuse to offer the option to turn off “Conversation View”.

The requisite searches were performed, and resulting threads stated @mail, Zimbra, and RoundCube offer nice webmail interfaces. Has anyone used email hosts that offer those interfaces, with prices comparable to GoDaddy? I didn't see specific mentions of email hosts in those threads.

(As I'm looking for actual user experiences, I believe this post is appropriate for this forum, as I am not making a “request” directly to providers.)

Referenced threads...
<apparently I'm not allowed to post URLs...oh well.>

[UH-Bobby]

Roundcube is a great interface, but there are a lot of providers that don't offer it standard. I don't really know of any e-mail providers, because I've never really looked for them. If all else fails, you could get a standard hosting package, and install Roundcube on it. This would be a little more expensive, but I bet that a host would give you a discount for using it for e-mail only.

[Certifiedwebpro]

Originally Posted by guiser

Using “Google Apps for Domains” is also out of the equation because the arrogant Google engineers refuse to offer the option to turn off “Conversation View”.

I use Google Apps for almost all of my domains. What is "Conversation View?" You are able to turn off Chat, Calendar, Login website, almost everything.....

Matt

P.S. While I still use Google Apps alot... I also wanted a better interface. I purchased a "custom mailbox" from Yahoo. There are no ads, and it has a preview pain, etc. just like Outlook and "regular" email programs. You can drag and drop emails, etc. I just have all of my mail (minus the spam that is filtered by Google) forwarded to my Business Yahoo email account (custom mailbox: 34.95/year plus includes free domain name). Another plus is that the original is automatically saved at google.... so I always have a backup.

[aingaran]

Why don't you use yahoo's service? 200 E-mail accounts for $7.77/month for the first 2 months then $12/month thereafter. (That's their hosting package.) All you need to do is host your site elsewhere and change MX records to point to yahoo's mailservice. Best thing about yahoo, if you have blackberry you have true push e-mail without Belackberry Enterprise server.

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/email...l_packages.php

[placebo3]

Check out webmail.us.