Quest For The Perfect (Paid) Email Hosting Service - Page 11

William9 · 9 Jun 2012, 02:11 AM

This is one of the things that I like about LuxSci. It's vibrant and under continual develpment and optimization.

petergh · 9 Jun 2012, 03:22 AM

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Originally Posted by zmiller

Hi folks, for those reporting LuxSci webmail speed concerns, you may be interested to know we just released some changes that should help speed up things particularly for large email folders...

I'm sorry to say this, but after opening ~50 messages of varying sizes in my inbox, I see absolutely no speed increase on average from my location. I have only 192 messages in my inbox, so it's not exactly a huge folder, but the blog post says I should still see a speed increase.

alapzaj · 11 Jun 2012, 12:20 AM

In the meantime I've tried Zoho (Mail). It's like Google Apps - they have mail domain hosting up to 3 users free with 5Gb space each. They have SMTP, IMAP and POP3, all with SSL and a very nice and modern web interface. The apps portion includes calendar, contacts, notes, bookmarks, project management, word processor, spreadsheets, presentation maker, etc. It's a US based company, I think their servers are overseas, which makes the ajax-heavy web interface a bit slow.

I don't know whether there are any privacy-related concern about them á la Google, but all the pros makes them a primary choice if Facebook takes over FM.

ioneja · 11 Jun 2012, 02:08 AM

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Originally Posted by petergh

I'm sorry to say this, but after opening ~50 messages of varying sizes in my inbox, I see absolutely no speed increase on average from my location. I have only 192 messages in my inbox, so it's not exactly a huge folder, but the blog post says I should still see a speed increase.

For what it's worth, I have noticed a difference. Sorry to hear you haven't seen a difference. Maybe I'm just having a great connection to them today (I'm also in the US so I'm sure that helps), and I can't say HOW much of a difference yet, but they seem to have done something positive. I also don't have big folders (in part because I reduced folder sizes due to how slow it was before), but I'll be watching more closely. But at least today, it does seem more spritely. Well done, LuxSci!

the bishop · 11 Jun 2012, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb

I am trying out 01.com for Zimbra hosting. $59.99 per year, 1 month free trial. Apparently, 01.com is the largest zimbra hosting provider.

For myself, looking at ease of use, features available, value etc. this is the best choice yet.

Let me know how this works out for you; I'm thinking that this might be a great move esp since it has allows aliases (I have 6 domains with multiple accounts that come directly to me).

ChinaLamb · 11 Jun 2012, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by the bishop

Let me know how this works out for you; I'm thinking that this might be a great move esp since it has allows aliases (I have 6 domains with multiple accounts that come directly to me).

It is pretty good, I am going to buy a subscription to Zimbra and exchange 365 and use them both for a while... both of these push changes instead of having to wait for changes to sync up.

01.com lists an email address for getting support, but they actually have a support site you need to go to. They never replied to the email which caused initial frustration.

I have to say, I wish these services provided the support available through polarismail.

I am probably going to stay with fastmail for a while but I need push Calendar changes and unfortunately fastmail and polarismail enhanced don't provide this....

In the meantime, I am experimenting....

cptlo306 · 11 Jun 2012, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb

I am probably going to stay with fastmail for a while but I need push Calendar changes and unfortunately fastmail and polarismail enhanced don't provide this....

In the meantime, I am experimenting....

Polarismail Enhanced does provide push calendar changes via Activesync for mobile devices.

ChinaLamb · 12 Jun 2012, 11:23 AM

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Originally Posted by cptlo306

Polarismail Enhanced does provide push calendar changes via Activesync for mobile devices.

Yes, but only for mobile devices, not for desktops. In this day and age, I need updates to calendars pushed immediately across all devices / users.

George_B · 12 Jun 2012, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb

Yes, but only for mobile devices, not for desktops. In this day and age, I need updates to calendars pushed immediately across all devices / users.

where do you need them pushed ? Outlook, Thunderbird or iCal ?

ChinaLamb · 12 Jun 2012, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by George_B

where do you need them pushed ? Outlook, Thunderbird or iCal ?

I use outlook.

I know you have exchange hosting as well.

soromak · 12 Jun 2012, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb

I use outlook.

I know you have exchange hosting as well.

I was under the impression that you can get your calendars in Outlook synced through Atmail's Outlook plugin offered as a part of basic Polarismail account. I do not use Windows so can't check it for you, but see here

ChinaLamb · 12 Jun 2012, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by soromak

I was under the impression that you can get your calendars in Outlook synced through Atmail's Outlook plugin offered as a part of basic Polarismail account. I do not use Windows so can't check it for you, but see here

Ann initial read leads me to believe this is a scheduled sync, versus a push sync. Push sync changes happen instantaneously. Scheduled sync happens hourly or less. There are generally other issues with scheduled sync a well, usually the entire database on one side is compared to the database on the other side, which creates a very slow and bandwidth intensive, and resource intensive sync.

George_B · 12 Jun 2012, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb

Ann initial read leads me to believe this is a scheduled sync, versus a push sync. Push sync changes happen instantaneously. Scheduled sync happens hourly or less. There are generally other issues with scheduled sync a well, usually the entire database on one side is compared to the database on the other side, which creates a very slow and bandwidth intensive, and resource intensive sync.

Besides Exchange, there is no 'true push' method for calendar/contact data. The Enhanced e-mail that you have does come with SyncML through Funambol which will sync up as often as you want.

ChinaLamb · 13 Jun 2012, 12:41 AM

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Originally Posted by George_B

Besides Exchange, there is no 'true push' method for calendar/contact data. The Enhanced e-mail that you have does come with SyncML through Funambol which will sync up as often as you want.

George, I truly hope your email service succeeds. Your personal touch is a testament. I have been truly impressed.

EvilPeppard · 13 Jun 2012, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ChinaLamb

George, I truly hope your email service succeeds. Your personal touch is a testament. I have been truly impressed.

QFT. I love the personal touch I get from George and the PolarisMail staff.

11 Jun 2012, 12:20 AM	#153
alapzaj Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 21	In the meantime I've tried Zoho (Mail). It's like Google Apps - they have mail domain hosting up to 3 users free with 5Gb space each. They have SMTP, IMAP and POP3, all with SSL and a very nice and modern web interface. The apps portion includes calendar, contacts, notes, bookmarks, project management, word processor, spreadsheets, presentation maker, etc. It's a US based company, I think their servers are overseas, which makes the ajax-heavy web interface a bit slow. I don't know whether there are any privacy-related concern about them á la Google, but all the pros makes them a primary choice if Facebook takes over FM. Last edited by alapzaj : 11 Jun 2012 at 02:49 AM.

9 Jun 2012, 02:11 AM	#151
William9 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,281	This is one of the things that I like about LuxSci. It's vibrant and under continual develpment and optimization.