[aklug] Re: small business email hosting?

Take into account that some of your users may not want their sensitive info to be given directly to the biggest non-governmental data miner in the world. Google's history consists of doing what they think is "cool" or "profitable" regardless of whether it's legal or moral. When I've been part of organizations that considered moving to Google services, I was definitely opposed to it. I hope I wasn't the only one. -- Bryan Medsker bryan@gnomon.xyz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Coolidge" To:"JP" Cc:"Network Users Group Alaska" , "AKLUG" , "Christopher Howard" Sent:Wed, 25 Nov 2015 17:27:53 -0900 Subject:[aklug] Re: small business email hosting? I am seriously thinking of moving the mail hosting to Google.  I'm tired of supporting postfix/squirrel mail. I read a few articles and it looks pretty easy (if you know dns )... On Nov 25, 2015 5:18 PM, "JP" wrote: Google Apps, hands down. I have been using Google Apps since private beta, and have tried just about everything under the sun for mail services. You will never look back man...  I tried zimbra round the time Yahoo owned them. It was pretty good, and was a great alternative to on-premise exchange. But, the industry has changed and beyond SPOP and SIMAP there isn't much new under the sun in FOSS mail systems. Trends have gone to webmail systems, and roundcube.squirrelmail ain't no gmail/hotmail/yahoo. Now a days small businesses need tight integration of mail, calendar and contacts. You can do that with outlook (ugh), but not well with pop/imap. Office365 is awful, unless you are an IT biz, in which case you rake in the dough supporting the beast, and never go on vacation because there is an outage for one of Microsoft's core services 5 out of 7 days a week. GAPPS gives you the best of it all... sync with outlook, webmail on any device with internet access (i.e. internet enabled toaster), and the best uptime of any mail system ever.  ___ _______ | | | | | _ | | | |_| | ___| | ___| | | | |_______|___| JP (JESSE PERRY)voice/txt: 907-748-2200email: jp@jptechnical.com [2]web: http://jptechnical.com [3]support: helpdesk@jptechnical.com [4] On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Christopher Howard wrote: Any opinions on small-business email hosting (under ten users, with domain mapping)? This looks rather interesting: http://mindcentric.com/zimbra-products/zimbra-cloud/ [6] But am looking at Google, Yahoo, and Rackspace also. -- Christopher Howard, Computer Assistant Alaska Satellite Internet 3239 La Ree Way, Fairbanks, AK 99709 907-451-0088 or 888-396-5623 (toll free) fax: 888-260-3584 mailto:satinfo@hughes.net [7] http://www.alaskasatelliteinternet.com [8] --------- To unsubscribe, send email to with 'unsubscribe' in the message body. Links: ------ [1] mailto:jp@jptechnical.com [2] mailto:jp@jptechnical.com [3] http://jptechnical.com [4] mailto:helpdesk@jptechnical.com [5] mailto:christopher.howard.asi@gmail.com [6] http://mindcentric.com/zimbra-products/zimbra-cloud/ [7] mailto:satinfo@hughes.net [8] http://www.alaskasatelliteinternet.com [9] mailto:aklug-request@aklug.org

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