Questions about getting a friends business email setup on IMAP or something else?

[Imola Ghost]

I don't know how this works but his small company is setup to get email thru a POP server. I really believe his web designer is screwing him because his website sucks and they actually trade out favors for one another however I don't believe my friend is getting much out of it in return for what he does.

Anyway, I thought I'd do some research and find out for him. How difficult is it to switch his current way of getting email thru POP to something better?

I may not know what I'm talking about and please excuse me but this is all new.

Ideas?

 

[ChicoWeb]

It depends on what they want to do. There is no right answer, only different ones. If they want to sync their individual emails across multiple computers and devices I would use IMAP. If they have one computer in the office that they do work on, there is nothing wrong with POP either.

 

[Imola Ghost]

They access the email from several devices and computers.

Is this something that the web designer should/can do? How do we go about doing this?

 

[ChicoWeb]

That line is blurred. It would be your webhost though. If the web designer set up your web host, he should know where to find it.

 

[Mal]

I would recommend looking into Google Apps. Works well for me, although I don't have any big installations, just a couple addresses each. Works just like Gmail, but your own domain. Would require a little bit of work from the web developer, unless you or your friend have direct access to the domain setup.

jW

 

[manueld]

I would say a web designer/developer wouldn't be responsible for setting up company email as that is more of an IT issue rather than a web issue. While some designer/developers may be knowledgeable about such things, unless it was part of the scope of work I would say no.