I honestly never thought about this. I'll have to do my research as no little to nothing about it. Thanks.
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Is iCloud email worth it?
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I honestly never thought about this. I'll have to do my research as no little to nothing about it. Thanks.
I made the move several years ago, but I kept my Gmail account. What I did was setup a permanent forward to my new email address. I will warn you about this, however: iCloud spam filtering is in serious need of help. It's awful.
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Sure, they're cheap. But now you're paying $10/year for your email and it helps to have a recognizable domain behind your address. When you handwrite your email address, @gmail.com or @icloud.com is much easier to read. Plus, the web portal for Gmail and iCloud are so much better than Horde and some of the other common portals used for personal domains.
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Sure, they're cheap. But now you're paying $10/year for your email and it helps to have a recognizable domain behind your address. When you handwrite your email address, @gmail.com or @icloud.com is much easier to read. Plus, the web portal for Gmail and iCloud are so much better than Horde and some of the other common portals used for personal domains.
With all those mobile devices, why would you need to use a web portal at all?
Further more it provides you mobility and control. If anything a free generic mail domain is seen by many as a security risk as it is effectively a disposable email address.
Either way I'm not fussed what anyone else chooses, I just like to look at exit strategies as well.
Further more it provides you mobility and control. If anything a free generic mail domain is seen by many as a security risk as it is effectively a disposable email address.
Either way I'm not fussed what anyone else chooses, I just like to look at exit strategies as well.
I have choosen this route because I was unhappy with Gmail and iCloud. It just seemed logical to me. However what I have noticed is that most providers just suck when it comes to email on mobile phones. Most use z-push which is a reversed engineered version of activesync, and I must say that it sucks. Also their webmail is horrendous compared to their free counterparts. When you take all that into account the only good email providers are Google (Google apps) and Microsoft (Exchange/ Ofice365).
I personally like Outlook.com but I hate the domain name (it's confusing for some people, especially in the country I live in ) and the hotmail domain carries a lot of baggage. If they alowed the use of a custom domain on Outlook.com (like they once did) I wouldn't think twice about switching.
Nor any that I care about. :I've tried it multiple times. Most of the time it works great. I want to workvbecause it would be one less account I'd have to worry about. I am currently giving it another shot, forwarding my gmail to iCloud. Unfortunately this morning I found an email that was in my gmail but not in my icloud account. I've had this occur a few times along with some lost sent items. I've docummented this in previous posts. It's a huge disappointment really. I guess I just can't walk away from gmail because it always works (for me). Maybe I'll give outlook.com another shot or continue to give iCloud more chances.
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Technically, you still can use your own custom domain for email with Microsoft Office 365 for Business.
I use my own domain with Office 365. I prefer it to iCloud, mainly because of two reasons:
- As an Exchange Server Consultant I need to have an Office 365 tenant to test things
- I prefer Outlook from Mail.app. It's much more powerful and I prefer using it.
It is allowed. I have one of my domains hosted there.
I can't say I've had issues with zpush as an active sync replacement. However I would use IMAP idle instead of your mobile device can handle that. But anyway, you are "complaining" about a push mechanism and then prefer a web interface. If argue that even if zpush isn't working well it would still be notified quicker than going to a web page.
Thanks for sharing! I use Google Apps for my custom domain and really enjoy it, but I've always wondered how it compares with Office 365.
Anyone here who has used both Google Apps and Office 365 for custom domain email? Which do you prefer, and why?
Ive got both, I prefer office365...However than is mainly for the management side of things, and office itself.
Email I just use with the mail client on my iPhone, Nexus 7, Macbook...I can't say I use it through the online interfaces at all....
Email I just use with the mail client on my iPhone, Nexus 7, Macbook...I can't say I use it through the online interfaces at all....
They don't allow new signups for custom domains on outlook.com. Office 365 is a paid alternative which I'm exploring but am not sure if it's overkill for personal mail.
You misread my reply. I didn't say I prefer a web interface, on the contrary it is my least favorite way of doing email. However there are situations were it is of use, like when your battery is dead and you're not at home/office.
I seriously dislike zpush and most of it's implementations. Zpush is broken for me ever since iOS8. No IMAP IDLE on iPhone