[SOLVED] Can anyone recommend a good email host

[Kirby]

I've been using Network solutions and haven't had a problem with them, but at nearly $100 a year, the price seems a little high for my very low volume email, Looking for something cheap and reliable, but that won't automatically get me added to all kinds of spam lists. Thanks.

 

[jmitservices]

cheap and reliable

Might find it hard to find that!

I'm using Rackspace for my e-mails. Not had a single problem!

 

[Markverhyden]

appriver.com

 

[NETWizz]

I like only Gmail and O365... That's it if you do cloud hosting.

 

[mraikes]

Does your webhost provide it? If so, it may already be included in your hosting fee or added on for not much additional.

 

[NJW]

Fastmail or Runbox. Their email services are their core business.

I currently have both business and personal email with Fastmail, but their recent price increase makes this less attractive for new accounts. Runbox is less expensive and is probably a better bet – not the case when I went with Fastmail a few years ago.

 

[ComputerRepairTech]

You know what I hate the most about other services hosting my email? Rejected messages. Its fine if they think something is spam but for crying out loud just put it in my spam folder don't reject it. I have all the email filters off and just forward my email to gmail which will reject certain emails in some situations but not nearly as much as the default configuration on cpanel servers. I would use my own spam filter but as far as I know gmail spam filter reigns supreme.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Rackspace for the very few basic POP/IMAP accounts (we use them for our DNS control panel for clients domains also)
Office 365 for all the rest of our clients.

 

[Kirby]

I guess I should specify, it's for my work email, my own domain and only a single email address. My web page is very simple, does no sales and is geared only toward providing links and info for my customers. I host it myself and it probably gets more PHP hacking attempts in a day than it gets legitimate traffic in a month on average. Or attempts from people in China to use it as a proxy.

So what I need is just a simple email provider which will allow me to use my own domain. I just don't think that's worth more than $90 a year when Gmail will do it for free. Most individuals have a higher email load than my business account does.

 

[Kirby]

It looks like I got 3 good options there. I'll take a look at Fastmail, Runbox and Rackspace. Appriver seems to be a whole lot more than simple email hosting and I couldn't find hosting plans there quickly. But it looks like the price range here is somewhere along the lines of 1/2, 1/3, in one case even almost 1/5 what I'm paying with Network Solutions, and one of those I get a free year if I sign up for 2, making it even less. Thanks guys!

 

[Markverhyden]

What platform are you using to host your website? Axigen has a free level, which I've been using for years, and it works great.

 

[Magic Miguel]

Do you subscribe to the Microsoft Action pack? If so you have 5 IUR rights for Office 365. There's a discount that can get it down to $275. I know that's higher than what you pay now but it also comes with several other features besides the Office 365 IUR rights.

 

[Kirby]

Up and going with Runbox. Relatively easy. Currently doing the 30 day trial. I was looking at Rackspace at first because it was only $2 a month, but that's per email address with a minimum of five. Network Solutions already gave me five for less than $92/year if I did a year at a time. It would have been $120/year through them, considerably more. At least, that's what came up when I went to do the sign up.

Thanks everyone. And not, I don't have the Action Pack any more. Just the old one from when I first started. I looked into it again a couple of years ago just for Visual Studio, but it couldn't do sever software. Not that I can anyway, but I can dream.