Reliable Paid Email Accounts?

NWLondoner

I am in the process of changing my mobile and ADSL providers.

I have switched from BT Fusion to 3 today and got a lovely shiny new INQ1

That was the easy part, I now need to change broadband providers.

I am currently with BT and want to switch the BE. The problem is when I leave BT they will close all my email accounts so need to switch. Ideally I want NON ISP connected accounts so I don't have to go through this again if I change ISP in the future.

Now I know yahoo/google etc. have good reputations, however many of the sites I use will NOT accept an email address from these sites due to spam.

Therefore I am looking for a good reliable paid site to use. I need around 5/6 separate mail addresses.


Any suggestions???

BigDarbs

I have been with Tiscali for a very long time, I don't re-call exactly when I went with them, but it was around 2001-ish on dial up, later up-graded to broadband.

I have never had any problems, the broadband has been perfect, I have never had a single issue with e-mail not sending or receiving, and I also have my home phone with them as well now, which has saved me over £30 per month.

I have no allegance with Tiscali, it has always just worked with no problems, hence I would recommend them.

FSR_XC

My wife uses breathe.com

Costs her £7.50/yr

pneumatic

I use Orange and Webfusion. They cost more than 7.50 per year but they have both been fine. I also do my personal web pages and business mail and web through Webfusion. Very reliable.

One thing to watch with Orange is their broadband box - I have never even unwrapped it from the packaging as I was warned that it ties you in unhelpfully (and excludes other people from using your wireless, even when you want them to). I have experienced not being able to connect to others' Orange wireless myself so I just didn't take the risk.

Unimaginative

I use oneandone.co.uk - you purchase a domain, and then you get up to 5 addresses (one may be a catch-all address for your domain so that it doesn't matter what is placed before the @, you'll receive it in your default mailbox).

http://order.1and1.co.uk/xml/order/MailInstantMail

VirtualCyclist

I use runbox.com for e-mail separate from my ADSL supplier (I was in a very similar
position to you). They are not cheap but have been good so far and I read good
things about them before I used them. If you go to their web site you can see what
they offer.

robbarker

Just purchase a domain - cheap as chips for a .co.uk. Then you just take it with you if you have to move ISPs again.

NWLondoner

Thanks for all the advice.

in the end i went with purple cloud and purchased my own domain name. £20 for 2 years plus £10 per year for the 10 email accounts

simon_e

NWLondoner wrote:

in the end i went with purple cloud and purchased my own domain name. £20 for 2 years plus £10 per year for the 10 email accounts

That's what I would suggest for most people. If you use an online registrar like Names.co.uk or 123-reg you can control your domain. Find an inexpensive mail provider and you can have the family's accounts all on one server.

And there's googlemail. The paid version is hugely flexible. At the office we're looking at moving from about 20 POP accounts to Google using IMAP (via Thunderbird, Outlook/Entourage or web browser) for £25/year per account, with 25 Gb space, Docs, Calendar (with sweet invite function), Chat and a load of other features thrown in. They are even running a Beta of Offline that saves a copy locally for if your connection goes down or you end up somewhere wifi-less...

alfablue

I got my domain from 123-reg, about £10 for 2 years, but my ISP provides me with emai (up to 10 mailboxes, I think most ISP's do). Simply set the domain based email to redirect to the ISP's one. lf I change ISP's just redirect to the new email. The email address people see and use is the domain name based one. Not sure I see the point of paying again for an email provider (is there a point? Please enlighten me). I can also access my email via the ISP's webmail page if I am away from home.

il_principe

I use Apple's MobileMe service. Quite pricey but I'm an iPhone user and I love the calendar, email and contact synching it allows.

simon_e

alfablue wrote:

I got my domain from 123-reg, about £10 for 2 years, but my ISP provides me with emai (up to 10 mailboxes, I think most ISP's do). Simply set the domain based email to redirect to the ISP's one. lf I change ISP's just redirect to the new email.

No reason why not, I did this for several years. The ISP's help pages should give you the correct settings for POP (incoming) and SMTP (outgoing) in your mail program or client. If you change ISP you just change the domain's pointer and your email settings.

The benefits of a paid service are usually: multiple accounts under one domain, technical support, anti-spam and better uptime. There's no reason why, say, members of your family or club officials can't each have a separate account under the one domain.