Re: Good IMAP hosts

> It turns out that Comcast is going to be somewhat delayed in hooking up
> Internet access at the new house.  I can survive myself without home Internet
> for a few days (it will probably do me good), but at present I run my own mail
> server in my living room.  Having that offline for a few days would be very
> not good, as I'm not the only one that uses it.
>
> I figure this is a good opportunity to look into 3rd party mail hosts,
> something I've been meaning to do for a while.  While I could just grab a
> random VPS somewhere and install my own mail server again, in the past that's
> been a full day project (dear god I hate mail servers) and it's not something
> I'd be looking forward to.  So, that means a full on mail host.
>
> What I would need:
>
> - I have my own domain and mail dns, and want to keep using it.
> - I have a metric assload of mail archives, which I want to preserve, so a
> large capacity.
> - IMAP access.  (I don't care of it has POP, but I do want fast IMAP.)
> - Server-side mail filtering.  I don't mean spam (although that too), but the
> ability to filter mail into folders server-side rather than relying on my
> desktop mail client to do it.
> - A webmail client that doesn't suck (read: Not SquirrelMail.)
> - Not one of the megacorps that owns the Interwebs. (Vis, not Google).  I
> don't trust them with their increasing power.
> - Other PIM integration is fine, but not required.
>
> A for-pay service is fine if it's worth it.
>
> Does the above description ring any bells?


I did a ton of research on this before switching to Fastmail about 18 
months now for a domain approx. 35 accounts, and I'm very happy. It's 
*nix-based, very fast, great IMAP, and has a lot of configurable 
functionality. The web interface is kind of different but very usable 
and flexible. The only thing in your list I'm not sure about is the disk 
space. I think the pro accounts are 15 gig max. They were bought by 
Opera last year, but I haven't seen any change in service (and Opera 
isn't a megacorp, is it?).

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