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30 Dec 2014, 12:56 AM | #1 |
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MrMail shutting down free zimbra service
Got this email this morning.
"Dear customers, the ownership of MrMail is changed to following company: Tidata.net SA Gewerbestrasse 5 6330 Cham Switzerland The Zimbra professional e-mail Service is expensive in maintenance. For this reason the current Service "Free Mailboxes" will be expire and be converted to a payed Basic Account. https://www.mrmail.com/zimbra-packages Best regards and Happy New Year MrMail" does anyone know of other zimbra services? Looking at their plans, the cheapest is 4.99eu, which is probably like $8us a month. Considering I am using less than 300mb for storage, that is way too much for my needs. Last edited by ccl1 : 30 Dec 2014 at 01:09 AM. |
30 Dec 2014, 05:11 AM | #2 |
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http://omail.it is free.
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30 Dec 2014, 05:23 AM | #3 |
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60 Euro a year is crazy expensive. No way I'm keeping my account.
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30 Dec 2014, 05:26 AM | #4 |
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That 'mrmail" is quite a hot potato, I had a free account there, It went from England to Canada & now is parked in Switzerland.
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30 Dec 2014, 05:27 AM | #5 |
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Wouldn't be a hot potato if their prices were reasonable. No wonder their maintenance is "expensive", they probably have too few paying customers.
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30 Dec 2014, 05:33 AM | #6 |
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I used to have a ZIMBRA account here, They are very reasonable.
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30 Dec 2014, 06:28 AM | #7 | |
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Their paid plans were cheaper a while back. I had a paid account with them at one point but have a few reliability issues. Another option for paid accounts is www.zmailcloud.com. |
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30 Dec 2014, 06:47 AM | #8 | |
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30 Dec 2014, 07:02 AM | #9 |
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30 Dec 2014, 07:23 AM | #10 | |
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Oddly, I have 3 rarely used accounts, and only one account got that notification. Also missing was when this transfer was actually suppose to take place, and when the free account would be discontinued. I hope they at least give 30 days leeway. They also bumped up the price significantly. First tier used to be like 2eu a month or something |
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30 Dec 2014, 07:24 AM | #11 |
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30 Dec 2014, 01:38 PM | #12 |
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slightly more info at https://www.mrmail.com
Posted at https://www.mrmail.com:
"Last News: Free Accounts will be terminated on 31.01.2015 Since 1996, provide a clean of adververtising and professional Zimbra Services, for this reason we terminate the “Free Accounts” until 31.01.2015. There can be converted to Basic-Zimbra Account with a Special Discount for 1 year." No mention of the discount. The regular prices are really steep. Perhaps they do not want to retain current customers. Tidata.net SA is an ISP. Maybe they intend the service for their ISP customers. They are sharing a calendar. The entries are written in Italian. This has always been a strange email implementation. Several people share their contacts, calendars, breifcases, etc to the world. I don't know why they want to share their stuff with me ;-) Even the previous owner's (Oliver Bross) stuff is shared out. -- Kevin |
30 Dec 2014, 09:16 PM | #13 |
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Free French Zimbra Account
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1 Jan 2015, 02:43 AM | #14 |
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there seems to be an opensource version of zimbra http://www.zimbra.com/downloads/zimb...on-open-source
I would be interested in installing that for personal use... but not sure how. I contacted my hosting company for help, and they told me it would take up too much resources, which seems strange b/c it would just be for 3 accounts. I guess I would need a dedicated server or something instead of shared hosting. |
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