Re: Good IMAP hosts

On Sunday, March 27, 2011 12:46:29 pm luther rochester wrote:
> > 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?).

15 gigs per account should be fine.  And no, Opera's not one of the big evil 
yet. :-)  (Google, MS, Apple, and Facebook are the Modern Internet Megacorps, 
and I distrust all of them.  That's why I haven't switched to Google Mail in 
all these years.)

--Larry Garfield
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