Webmail

[saunders]

My boss has just approached me asking if I know of any internet/webmail services that BT offer? Ive had a look on thier site, but its full of rubbish that doesn't get to the point. What I want to know is do BT offer a webmail service that you can pay for? Which offer's at least 2Gb of mail storage. It will be used as a forwarded account so a memeber of management can access emails

[Mystic]

What about Gmail? Thats a pretty well established webmail system. Hotmail is poor and outdated & most ISPs like BT only offer POP3 mail (certainly used to anyway). Could sign his soul to the devil and get him a live.com account?

[saunders]

What about Gmail? Thats a pretty well established webmail system. Hotmail is poor and outdated & most ISPs like BT only offer POP3 mail (certainly used to anyway). Could sign his soul to the devil and get him a live.com account?

Actually I know lots of people with gmail accounts, but never used it myself as iv always had hotmail (:oops: ). I take it this is google mail? :oops: If so I'm after something that can be used for a business, i.e. no advertisements

[Mystic]

Yeh, google mail. It gives 2gb space iirc.

Hotmail probably isnt as bad as i remember it now, noone would use it if it were. 2mb of storage space it used to give your :err:

[saunders]

mmm.. think ill keep looking into this.. just found something called hushmail? Which uses PGP encryption, whcih is probably more towards what i'm after. Thanks for the input:y:

[Noddy]

Is this for your companys email system?

[Clouds_mate]

Gmail ftw had it 2 year. good shit.

[AdamW]

I have Gmail......since getting iPhone...as it doesnt support hotmail

[saunders]

Is this for your companys email system?

A member of staff has two accounts, one is used for remote connection. But due to certain issue's they require a webmail service, that you can simply just log onto with an internet connection

[Noddy]

The best thing for your company to invest in then is an Exchange Mailserver and all employees can then (when setup correctly) access their mail (same inbox) from their desk, home, mobile (ie blackberry, iPhone).

Its also easier to maintain and manage rather than a load of gmail accounts. All emails are then addressed to name@yourcompany.co.uk for example rather than name@gmail.com

You'll also have the advantage of setting the inbox size to whatever you want.... or even unlimited - you're just limited to the amount of space on the hard drive in the server (which is easily upped by adding a new drive to the storage array)

Hope that helps.

[saunders]

The best thing for your company to invest in then is an Exchange Mailserver and all employees can then (when setup correctly) access their mail (same inbox) from their desk, home, mobile (ie blackberry, iPhone).

Its also easier to maintain and manage rather than a load of gmail accounts. All emails are then addressed to name@yourcompany.co.uk for example rather than name@gmail.com

You'll also have the advantage of setting the inbox size to whatever you want.... or even unlimited - you're just limited to the amount of space on the hard drive in the server (which is easily upped by adding a new drive to the storage array)

Hope that helps.


We have got one, but there are other issue's that render this not very usable. With regards to the accounts it would just be the one

[Noddy]

what issues would render it not usable?

[Mystic]

I have Gmail......since getting iPhone...as it doesnt support hotmail

It does, thers just not a big "hotmail" button ;)

Need to go into Other & add the settings manually

[saunders]

Well I just spoken to management and were sorting something out, so hopefully wont have to go the webmail route. I can't really discuss the issue's but rest assure we have found a solution:A: