Looking for a free email backend service.

[Benchtech]

Well, I have one of my domains and I am looking to provide an email service in which people can register for and get an @....me email address. I found I could do this with Windows Live Domains but I can't stand Windows Live, I hate them so much.

Are there any other, (preferably free) or VERY low cost services that do this?

Thanks in advance,

Ben.

To claify, I'm not looking for a free domain, which is how it may come accross, I am looking for an email service backend that allows users to register, similar, but better than Windows Live domains.

 

[cmm]

Nothing free like that will exist, unless it bombards the user with ads, and you will need to extensively revise your privacy policy as a result. IMO, you shouldn't do that to your users.

Just install and configure postfix and dovecot for your own email server. Don't forget openssl.

 

[jsgreen]

FastMail has options that might suite your needs:

fastimap.fm


Look at their Business plans. I've been a customer of theirs for 7 years and have been very satisfied with the service.

 

[Benchtech]

Nothing free like that will exist, unless it bombards the user with ads, and you will need to extensively revise your privacy policy as a result. IMO, you shouldn't do that to your users.

Just install and configure postfix and dovecot for your own email server. Don't forget openssl.

Don't I need a dedicated server for that?

Also the fastmap.im server is down for me, which makes less than a good impression.

Thanks for the replies!

 

[cmm]

Well, a $20 Linode VPS (virtual Private Server, i.e., you get a smaller, specific, dedicated slice of a large, dedicated server) will do the trick. And you'd keep the data.

What software is your website running? Just PHP apps? If so, that would take about 5-10 hours to configure, with the email server (I won't pretend to you and tell you that an email server config is easy, it isn't, but a LAMP server: linux, apache, mysql and php could be deployed in 5 minutes with a stackscript, i.e., an automated LAMP script, though i'd recommend nginx rather than apache).


Let me know if I can help

 

[Benchtech]

Id need to do some massive research! I am not very good with stuff like that, thanks a lot for your detailed reply, much appreciated

 

[allanscu]

One big service that often gets overlooked is Google. As long as you use 10 or less user accounts, you can use Google's servers for FREE:
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

You can also use them as a mail relay, and their limit (I believe) is 500 messages per day when you use the relay. I use this as a cheap SMTP server for my Ruby on Rails apps:
http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-use-gmails-smtp-server-with-rails-394.html

Good luck!