What's your favorite email host? (was: SOHO Email Hosting or Alternatives)

[Ben Scott]

On 4/20/07, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
> What are some good alternatives for a Small Office - Home Office
> business for setting up email for their domain?

  I think you need to be more specific in your questions.  Allow me to
do so, on your behalf, and on behalf of others:

  There's a bunch of people in this group (well, at least four) who
want reliable email hosting, but don't want to admin the mail server
themselves.  Multiple aliases and mailboxes per domain is a must.
User controllable spam filtering is a must, including the ability to
opt-out of all such.  IMAP over SSL would be really nice.  Server-side
filtering (Sieve, procmail, etc.) would be really nice.

  Most of all, with a company that doesn't suck.  There are a
million-and-one providers on the intertube, but most of them suck.
The only way to know if a provider sucks or not is to try them out for
a few months.  There is a ton of experience on this list; everyone is
hoping to find someone who can refer them to providers already known
to not suck.

  In case it's not sufficiently clear, this is an open invitation for
people to plug their {own,employer's,friend's,favorite} service.
We're asking to be spammed here, folks.  :)

  Well-defined target market, practically begging to pay reasonable
fees, in search of service providers, on a clear channel.  This should
be a salesperson's wet dream.

-- Ben