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The reason Gmail is free is because they have ads. I wouldn't expect to find a free and good email service. Here's one that costs some money: http://fastmail.fm/
The new beta web interface for fastmail.fm looks pretty good: https://beta.fastmail.fm
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Darn I was hoping Gmail was in that list. Purely out of curiosity I'd love to download the 20,000 messages I have in there to do some analysis..
Gmail is not in that list, because they have IMAP access ( http://www.dataliberation.org/google/gmail ). You can just setup your account in for example OSX Mail, after synchronizing your messages will be in ~/Library/Mail (albeit not in a really nice folder structure like pure mbox or maildir, but you should be able to convert them without much hassle). Or you could use offlineimap ( http://www.offlineimap.org ), whi…
And while we are at it maybe a good alternative to Google Calendar? I've been wanting to switch away from these two for some time now.
Yes, this is definitely relevant to my interests as well. So far I haven't found anything as good as GC and even that is not as good as I would like it to be.
I look around once in awhile, and I never do find a good solution. My current solution is Thunderbird's Lightning extension, and I cringe every time Thunderbird updates, which is often now that Mozilla has the constant update fetish.
I would love to find a reasonably priced calendar solution with a company that I believe will be around for at least five years.
I really wish fastmail did calendars. Are you listening FM?
Tangentially related - I would pay for an email service with an off-site delivery for Gmail recipients. Basically, it should hold any email that is to be sent to GMail servers and instead send a note saying "You've got mail, pick it up here " rel="nofollow">https:// . Anything like this out there?
Lavabit is pretty good. I've been with them (Personal Account plan) for about 4 years now. No downtime, IMAP and a stated goal in caring about their users privacy. The webmail interface is pretty modest, but they do provide a way to set pretty advanced regex server-side filters. You have to upgrade to a paid plan if you want decent SPAM filtering though. They're also planning a surprise upgrade soon. http://lavabit.c…
What does this mean?
I used pair.com for this and other purposes for many years, happily, and I'm thinking of going back. I'm on fastmail at the moment. One surprising development: pair.com used to be freebsd-only, and now they offer ubuntu as an alternative.
Of course, this is brought to you courtesy of competition from Google but this blows the doors off Google Apps. Don't need a separate synchronizing application to keep Outlook synched. Everything works just as if you had local Exchange except you don't need a local Exchange server or anti-spam or anti-virus solution.
Surprisingly, Microsoft has become very competitive in hosted email.
The reason Gmail is free is because they have ads. I wouldn't expect to find a free and good email service. Here's one that costs some money: http://fastmail.fm/
As most here, I'd advise to go for a commercial service. Selfhosting is fun but can cause unnecessary headaches. Fastmail seems to have an impeccable reputation. I have been using sherweb for several years now. Works very well. It's a bit more expensive but you also get a lot more, too. Think calendar, contacts. Plus, most smartphones work wonderfully with the Exchange mailbox. They are located in Canada. Last but no…
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/pricing-exchange-onl...
Now, does anyone have a replacement for the UI/client? Something good and multiplatform that a) deals well with multi media (images, attachments, etc) and b) still retains MH semantics?
The use of MH style semantics is what attracted me to the whole thing back in 2004.