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z1ts:
Hi Kitizens!

I currently host my personal mail account(s) on my business M$ Exchange server and have a separate domain with a few extra accounts on (think for kids/wife/brothers/dad/mum etc!)

I'm looking to move away from the hassle of hosting my own mail & find something online that can help me!  Any suggestions??

We have (un)fortunately fallen in love with the various things that Exchange offers us, specifically Contacts & Calendar sync.

I have looked at a few providers who provide very good free services, one I like particularly is Zoho's mail offering.  Its limitations for me are that it will only do IMAP/POP on a PC (so no Calendar/Contact sync)

Does anyone know of a free (or cheap) service that I can persue?  I could always go down the route of Hosted M$ Exchange which will do exactly what I want, but at £3/user it'll run me up a bill of nearly £300 p/a which is a tad steep if I can get it free!!!

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Regards

zts

broadstairs:
Do you have a website hosted anywhere as many people will do email alongside hosting? That's what I use for my email rather than my ISP.

Stuart

NEXUS2345:
The Outlook.com offering from Microsoft is very good, and is of course linked to its Calendar and contacts services. The Outlook app for smartphones is extremely powerful for an email client, as it integrates email, with calendar, contacts and even OneDrive file sharing. In my opinion, that is probably the best solution available if you are looking to migrate away from M$ Exchange. And of course, it is free, although they do offer an "Ad-free" version for something like £15 a year. There is also Office365 if you want to add more storage to the email account and OneDrive and get access to the latest Office applications.

z1ts:
Thank you, kind gentlefolk!

@broadstairs - my domain host does include some kind of email service, but it is fairly limited to a webmail login and a rather crippled IMAP offering (which is why I haven't pursued that option much!)

@nexus2345 - thanks, I will take a look at that. I wasn't aware that the outlook.com product could be used with your own domain.  Will definitely be top of the list if you are able as I have used it for my mother-in-law's mail account & to be honest I was very impressed!!  (it used the outlook.com domain as the email address though - i.e. username@outlook.com)

Thanks both

If anyone else has any suggestions - let me have them!

Regards

z1ts

NEXUS2345:
In terms of using your own domain, I believe that is a more premium feature. I appear to have glazed over that in your original post so I apologise for that. It appears that there is currently a US only Outlook.com Premium which gives you 5 email addresses associated to a single account for $20/yr, plus removes ads. That is as far as I can find on this without you having to look towards the business packages of Office365, so I apologise again for not realising this from your original post.

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