Re: [tlug] outsourcing email service

[Micheal Cooper <mcooper@example.com>]

Keith Bawden wrote:
> Micheal E. Cooper wrote:
>   
> > Logically, a company with a data center, backup facilities, a spam/virus
> > firewall, and full-time support should be able to host plenty of virtual
> > mail servers and use the economies of scale to offer other organizations
> > email support for less than it costs to do it in-house.
> >
> > I have looked this up on the web, read articles, and sifted through
> > Flash-y advertisements. I have also sent a couple of inquiries to
> > virtual server providers. I also sent an inquiry to Zimbra.
> >
> > But I would also like to get experience (even biased), personal input
> > from TLUGgers, to make sense of the noise on the net.
> >
> > What do you think about the wisdom of outsourcing email to an off-site
> > service?
> >
> > Is anyone doing this?
> >
> > If you think it is a good idea, do you have any recommendations, even if
> > it is your own company?
> >
> > Micheal
> >
> >
> >     
>
> Hello,
>
> There is hosted gmail to consider.
>
> Regards, Keith
>
>   
Thank you. I am considering it. I signed up for the service and was 
accepted automatically, but it only allows for 100 users (I need about 
400), and it can be terminated at any time.

Also, there is no info on whether users can transfer their present mail 
archives over.

It is a surprisingly easy sign-up, though. The first page says that you 
will be contacted if accepted, and then it moves immediately to the 
set-up screen for the admin account, so I was a bit surprised.

Micheal