Email Provider

[Caress of Steel]

Didn't mean to derail the thread but thanks gadgetgeek and Caress of Steel for the input. I'm in the process of having my website for my photography business built by my buddy. I bought my domains from GoDaddy but he's gonna build and host the site and set up my email accounts for me. I'll ask him about the Exchange Server and see what I can do to transfer all my email from my Rogers webmail account. My main concern was transferring everything and maintaining the folders they're already in without manually having to refile things.
I used Outlook for years but got tired of having to do the same thing (transferring emails etc) whenever I moved to a new pc or laptop. I find keeping it all on webmail is easier because as you said John, everything stays synced across all my devices.

Anyhow, mete, sorry again dude for going off track, but hopefully this info was useful to you too! Cheers.

Well, if you set up an email account through a domain like that, you can use a standard account that uses POP3 or IMAP, or you can choose the option for Exchange Server. GoDaddy has a very good Webmail App you can use as well, so that might be something to consider. Exchange will cost you...I host several web sites so the few clients I have left from the days of web design pay for all my hosting/email services.

One of the things I like about Outlook is that you can take your PST/data file with you when you change email providers. That includes your contacts as well. Your buddy will probably know how to do all that. It can be a bit tricky but has been the best email client for the capability of backing email/contacts up for me.

John

 

[StephR]

I've always had a really good experience with Google services in general so I jumped on the Gmail bandwagon right away and there are no complaints here. It isn't perfect, but what is?

 

[theHobbyist]

Maybe I missed it but if you're looking for something for a business check out intermedia.com or groupspark.com both are very reliable and use the exchange system (like outlook.com) if you're looking for yourself, outlook.com, but be advised changes are coming soon with the service (I work for an MSP that is an MCP).

Personally I have accounts with live.com, gmail.com and yahoo.com, I've never had an issue with any of them. Although I do use only the web interfaces or my phone to access the accounts, that just makes things simple.

As for taking your email with you, if (and that seems to be a big IF) you can get outlook to connect with the proper settings you should be able to off load your email in to a PST and transfer them to your new provider (mind you this depends on how much you're uploading) my suggestion would be to just mount the pst and roll with it like that.