Exchange email hosting: Any recommendations?

[Fidipaldi]

Hello,

I would like to ask your advice, can you recommend a good, full features and services, exchange email hosting?

I am trying the mail2web and I am using Yahoo, but this combination is not ideal. I cannot leave a copy of the email on yahoo when forwading to the mail2web. Ideally I would like one provider, with a good name, advertising free with which I can have the email also sent to the Jamin. :P

Your thoughts and comments are very much appreciated.

Thanks!!

[rp1790]

Try these guys http://www.4smartphone.com/Default.aspx. They have an option to pull your email from yahoo, hotmail etc and they have a free trial. $3.99 per month after the trial.

[terramax]

If you have an i-mate you already get an exchange-based e-mail address for free - @clubimate.com Just sign up.

[Urban Strata]

Does anyone know if I might be able to sync (via ActiveSync) with both my local desktop and a hosted Exchange provider like 4smartphone.net using the same device?

My Outlook at work is connected to Exchange 2000, so I can't get push e-mail, but I do sync my contacts, calendar and tasks. When I unplug my device, I'd like it to sync with an external hosted Exchange service which I can then use from my Outlook at home.

Is this possible?

[floepie]

@OP - Why do you still need to access your yahoo mail on their server? Just have it forwarded to 4smartphone for fastest delivery. You can always have them poll your Yahoo acct periodically if you really want to keep a copy there. Although, this sort of defeats the purpose of synced exchange on multiple devices. What you don't get with the free exchange servers out there is the ability to use Outlook 2003 to control your data and have it synced with multiple computers. Instead, you must always access your data on a PC with OWA (over the web), which is all right for many, but not nearly as nice. P.S. you do get a free copy of Outlook 2003 with the pro 4smartphone account. ($7/mo)

@urban - No, you can't sync the same category of PIM data to multiple sources, i.e. server and local PC. However, I believe you can sync the categories with multiple PC's, in which case you would ultimately be syncing the PC's together *via* your mobile device, although this isn't what you're looking for.

[Fidipaldi]

Hi Floepie,

I like to have a copy on Yahoo to download the email to my PC later and to access it on the Web when travelling, to avoid the roaming charges for GPRS use.

Anyways, trying the mail2web.com service. I signed up and for a small fee I have pop3 access to this account. It works quite well. The 4smartphone service look spretty cool as well.

Thanks for your feedback.

[vsc]

I haven't taken the step to spending money as of yet but I have thought about going this route for some time. Basically at this point I'm using mail2web with a rule to to ensure replies are available on my home computer.

If you went with the full hosted exchange you have everything your ae asking for. At home you could access the mail through the free copy of outlook. On the road you can access the mail via the outlook web portal.

If then you want to hold a local copy you could simply create a rule to pull the mail into a local folder. This is in fact what many people where I work do with their corporate exchange account.



Hi Floepie,

I like to have a copy on Yahoo to download the email to my PC later and to access it on the Web when travelling, to avoid the roaming charges for GPRS use.

Anyways, trying the mail2web.com service. I signed up and for a small fee I have pop3 access to this account. It works quite well. The 4smartphone service look spretty cool as well.

Thanks for your feedback.