Yahoo Small Business

zaaz777 · 26 Jun 2009, 10:01 PM

Are any of you folks at EMD forums using Yahoo Small Business Custom Mailbox priced at $34.95 per year for hosting your email?
What are your experiences and opinions about this service?
How does it Compare to Fastmail Business email hosting or to Runbox email hosting .
Your opinions?

jeffpan · 27 Jun 2009, 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by zaaz777

Are any of you folks at EMD forums using Yahoo Small Business Custom Mailbox priced at $34.95 per year for hosting your email?
What are your experiences and opinions about this service?
How does it Compare to Fastmail Business email hosting or to Runbox email hosting .
Your opinions?

I had used it, good service, 34.95 USD per year for much more mailboxes than FM and others.

beq · 1 Jul 2009, 12:58 PM

I think it has positive things about it. Furthermore, the 1000 mailboxes bundled free with the Yahoo webhosting package ($10-13/month) is a good value.

But it would be better if (when) Yahoo allows general IMAP access, instead of limiting it to only select clients. And more powerful features in the areas of email filtering, multiple domain support, etc.

Perhaps over time Yahoo can bring its mail offering more to parity with its subsidiary Zimbra. Actually, Yahoo could even offer its own hosted Zimbra subscription service to the public, perhaps positioned as a higher-end solution than the existing Yahoo Business Email...

William9 · 1 Jul 2009, 03:14 PM

Our organization has been using Yahoo! Mail for Small Business for 2 or 3 years. It's a good value with 200 large mail boxes and website host -- all for only $13 per month. Zimbra recently improved its desktop mail app (version 1.0) to support Yahoo Small Business mail. They don't show what the mail protocol is, but it behaves just like IMAP. It's actually really nice.

beq · 1 Jul 2009, 03:23 PM

The Zimbra developers had in the past confirmed that the Yahoo mail support in Zimbra Desktop is using IMAP. Yahoo apparently grants IMAP access to a select few clients including Zimbra Desktop (and 3rd parties that emulate the authentication).

William9 · 2 Jul 2009, 11:10 AM

There you have it: Zimbra is a good desktop e-mail client, free, and provides IMAP access to Yahoo! mail, Yahoo Small Business, and others. It has other features like calendar, address book, et. which synchronize.

CyberSaint · 6 Jun 2010, 10:04 AM

I had this same question -- I'm glad I did a search on the topic before starting a new thread.

Yahoo seems to be pretty slick with its email, and I've been considering it for use with my own domain mail name. IMAP access isn't that important to me.

The addition of Zimbra would make Yahoo business even more appealing.

CyberSaint · 7 Jun 2010, 04:31 AM

I just worked a little more with Yahoo -- there are no sub-folders available, which are very important to me. I'll be looking elsewhere.

26 Jun 2009, 10:01 PM	#1
zaaz777 Essential Contributor Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 333	Yahoo Small Business Are any of you folks at EMD forums using Yahoo Small Business Custom Mailbox priced at $34.95 per year for hosting your email? What are your experiences and opinions about this service? How does it Compare to Fastmail Business email hosting or to Runbox email hosting . Your opinions?

1 Jul 2009, 12:58 PM	#3
beq Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA Posts: 895	I think it has positive things about it. Furthermore, the 1000 mailboxes bundled free with the Yahoo webhosting package ($10-13/month) is a good value. But it would be better if (when) Yahoo allows general IMAP access, instead of limiting it to only select clients. And more powerful features in the areas of email filtering, multiple domain support, etc. Perhaps over time Yahoo can bring its mail offering more to parity with its subsidiary Zimbra. Actually, Yahoo could even offer its own hosted Zimbra subscription service to the public, perhaps positioned as a higher-end solution than the existing Yahoo Business Email...

1 Jul 2009, 03:14 PM	#4
William9 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,281	Our organization has been using Yahoo! Mail for Small Business for 2 or 3 years. It's a good value with 200 large mail boxes and website host -- all for only $13 per month. Zimbra recently improved its desktop mail app (version 1.0) to support Yahoo Small Business mail. They don't show what the mail protocol is, but it behaves just like IMAP. It's actually really nice.

1 Jul 2009, 03:23 PM	#5
beq Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA Posts: 895	The Zimbra developers had in the past confirmed that the Yahoo mail support in Zimbra Desktop is using IMAP. Yahoo apparently grants IMAP access to a select few clients including Zimbra Desktop (and 3rd parties that emulate the authentication).

2 Jul 2009, 11:10 AM	#6
William9 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: San Francisco Posts: 2,281	There you have it: Zimbra is a good desktop e-mail client, free, and provides IMAP access to Yahoo! mail, Yahoo Small Business, and others. It has other features like calendar, address book, et. which synchronize.

6 Jun 2010, 10:04 AM	#7
CyberSaint Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hurricane, WV Posts: 206	I had this same question -- I'm glad I did a search on the topic before starting a new thread. Yahoo seems to be pretty slick with its email, and I've been considering it for use with my own domain mail name. IMAP access isn't that important to me. The addition of Zimbra would make Yahoo business even more appealing.

7 Jun 2010, 04:31 AM	#8
CyberSaint Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hurricane, WV Posts: 206	I just worked a little more with Yahoo -- there are no sub-folders available, which are very important to me. I'll be looking elsewhere.