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24 Jul 2013, 11:06 PM | #1 |
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Best paid alternative to Google Apps and Outlook.com ?
Hi Guys,
Due to recent privacy concerns, I would like to move my email, contacts and calendaring hosting away from Google Apps (I have a free grandfathered account) and outlook.com I currently have three domains, two of which are hosted on Google Apps and one on outlook.com. My main concern is being able to access my calendar on my HTC One X Android handset. I have tried Pobox, and whilst setting up email was a breeze, I simply could not get the calendar to sync to my phone. I would have preferred to use ActiveSync, but as Google appear to no longer support this, it will have to be CalDav and CardDav. I could of course pick any one from a number of providers (Polarismail, Fastmail, Runbox, Posteo, EUMX, etc etc) to host my email and leave my calendar on Google Apps, but I would much prefer to use a single unified solution of email, calendar and contacts at the same provider. I am happy to pay around $8 / £5 a month for a solution and was intrigued by Atmail Cloud, but the minimum 5 mailbox criteria put me off. Also, I have considered a hosted Microsoft Exchange service, if indeed I could buy a single mailbox solution. Any thoughts / suggestions, ladies and gentlemen ? Thanks In Advance. Regards, Jeff |
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24 Jul 2013, 11:39 PM | #3 |
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Hi there Soromak,
I havent ruled them out, just looking at other options (I do have a polarismail account, used as a back up, as all email sent to Google Apps / Outlook.com is forwarded to my Polarismail account by a filter) I am not solely considering MS Exchange , I am considering MS Exchange in addition to offer solutions. |
25 Jul 2013, 04:58 AM | #4 |
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Aside from the ones already mentioned (Polarismail, etc.), you could get a single Office 365 mailbox with 25gb limit for $4/month.
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25 Jul 2013, 10:01 AM | #5 |
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transfer your domain to gandi.net with 15 USD per year and you will get a 5 mailbox users sharing 1GB of storage, I am just happy with them coz I love the roundcube interface and all webmail/pop3/smtp are SSLs.
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25 Jul 2013, 02:46 PM | #6 |
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I don't have the expertise to know any of your technical requirements but for a dummy like me, and learning the hard way over the last few days, I'm happy with Zoho Mail (so far). They seem to have a bunch of other products that might do the things you want. Just a passing thought to check out quickly. Goodluck.
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26 Jul 2013, 03:13 AM | #7 |
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If your using an HTC One X have you tried using the Google Calendar app (included on the phone) and sync your Calendar as a Google account? In my experience on Android its instant sync.
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26 Jul 2013, 07:42 AM | #8 |
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I am currently testing EUMX, which looks good so far.
Cory - You are correct, but, as stated in my thread opening post,I am looking at moving away from google Apps. |
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you can have email, calendar, contacts with it, but not sure how well the sync to phone works since i've never used it. i see mrmail has a paid activesync addon for their paid versions https://www.mrmail.com/zimbra-packages/ |
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28 Jul 2013, 07:55 PM | #12 |
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Does Mrmail support alias in free version? At least one or two, like Yahoo and Outlook.com?
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29 Jul 2013, 03:33 PM | #15 | |
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unless you mean you can't be bothered to fill out fake info i don't know if its a quirk or not but you can still use ajax. i'm just using the free one and can set it as default. not sure about aliases. i don't use the @mrmail email account anyway. basically using zimbra for pop access to another account. |
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