Recommendations for/against Comcast Business as an email provider

[Steven C. Peterson]

On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:41 PM, Dan Jenkins wrote:

>  On 8/30/2010 10:31 AM, Ted Roche wrote:
>> Slightly off-topic, although I got my foot stuck in this door since I
>> have installed and maintain a LAMP server and apps at this client site.
>> So, there's a bit of Linux in there.
>> 
>> I have a client running a small business with my LAMP server as his only
>> non-desktop machine, and Comcast Business for internet provider. He's
>> been using a patchwork of email services over the years (they use AOL
>> and Yahoo! email addresses and a former web design firm provides their
>> domain's POP server.) They are entitled to Comcast Business email as
>> part of their internet package. I wondered if folks here had experience
>> with setting up other clients with Comcast. In particular, my concerns
>> are reliability (losing email during business hours means lost business)
>> and whether they provide decent spam filtering.
> I've had excellent up-time with Comcast Business Internet. Their spam 
> filtering in their residential service has been adequate for those 
> clients who use it. I have not yet used their business email service, 
> however, I do plan to in the next few weeks. As Comcast provides an 
> eXchange server for business class there are some benefits to this 
> client, as they all use Outlook and want a shared calendar. And I just 
> don't have the time to implement an alternative for them. I'll let you 
> know the results of using Comcast Business email service after I have 
> some experience with it.
> 
> I have another client who converted to Comcast Business Internet today. 
> I plan to use Comcast's email server as a pre-filter for spam filtration 
> and as backup email server to feed their in-house Postfix/CourierImap 
> setup. I'll let you know how that works too.
> 
> 

To the best of my knowledge both the residential and commercial email is run by zimbra, with the exchange emulation turned on for the commercial accounts.

this is based on marketing by zimbra, and the look and feel of the setup page we have on one of our Comcast commercial lines.
 
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Steven C. Peterson
Mainstream Technology Group
scp at mainstream.net
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