IT Guys - Email server question

[csudman]

I work for a small print shop. We have about 7 email addresses and handle files that are pretty decent in size, average is about 4-8 meg. We have a ftp service through our corperate office that is nice and easy to manage so we don;t want to screw with that.

We all have @bellsouth.net addresses.

1. Thats not terribly professional and we want to change it to our company name.

2. Bellsouth sucks. The've started blocking emails from people we've been dealing with for years. I lost 30k last week because of it. I don't want another email blocked without my permission.


So, what do we do? Dedicated Email server? Use godaddy or something else to host our emails?

 

[Caver Dave]

Depending on WHY your corporate has FTP capabilities, but no corp email ...

You could look into hosted email. Most will run the same junk filter BS uses = many of the same issues you have now or another whole set of "admin" issues to deal with.

For that few users, I'd go with gmail accounts!
- free (also, doesn't require an admin/overseer)
- Latest quota is 7.3GB of space (I haven't deleted ANYTHING in over 3 years)
- NO per message size limits (at least that I've ever hit, including 700+MB movies)
- The absolute BEST SPAM filtering I've ever seen (next to a $5K Barracuda)
- Web/Browser Based... Accessible from ANY browser, ANY internet connected device (mine works great from iPhone), & ANYWHERE in the world = no screwing with POP clients or their inherent issues.

 

[Rich]

My webhost (totalchoicehosting.com) provides unlimited e-mail addresses and storage space, up to your allotted storage space.

 

[hscrugby]

Depending on WHY your corporate has FTP capabilities, but no corp email ...
You could look into hosted email. Most will run the same junk filter BS uses = many of the same issues you have now or another whole set of "admin" issues to deal with.
For that few users, I'd go with gmail accounts!
- free (also, doesn't require an admin/overseer)
- Latest quota is 7.3GB of space (I haven't deleted ANYTHING in over 3 years)
- NO per message size limits (at least that I've ever hit, including 700+MB movies)
- The absolute BEST SPAM filtering I've ever seen (next to a $5K Barracuda)
- Web/Browser Based... Accessible from ANY browser, ANY internet connected device (mine works great from iPhone), & ANYWHERE in the world = no screwing with POP clients or their inherent issues.

Google(gmail) will also do domain specific email hosting for fairly cheap.
and you get google apps which may or may not be useful for other things. You can have outlook tie into, or you can just use their web interface.
Or a combination. And you just pay them, and it just works.