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Thread #158860   Message #3760415
Posted By: Joe Offer
23-Dec-15 - 03:38 AM
Thread Name: Tech: How Does Email Work? How to make it better?
Subject: Tech: How Does Email Work? How to make it bett
I used to be very happy with my msn email account, but lately it has been sluggish and unreliable. I also have Yahoo and Gmail accounts, and I don't like them, either.
At work, we have Comcast, and their email sucks.

So, when I set up a Website for the women's center where I work, I used Network Solutions for Web Hosting, and it works pretty well. I also started using the email service that Network Solutions provides with our domain name.

But that e-mail's lousy, too. It has a Web-based email client with a 1 GB storage limit, and employees are frequently going over the limit with stored photos and the like. And the email is very unreliable.

So, what can I do to get reliable email service? The Network Solutions email can be set to be sent to any email service, but will that end my unreliability? If I tie the network solutions email to Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird, will that give us reliable service? I already have Outlook installed on every computer, but we haven't been using it. If I use Outlook on our office computers, how can users access and manage their email on their phones or at home?If they delete or save a message at home, will it be deleted or saved on the Outlook software at the office?

So, what would be an ideal, inexpensive email setup for a nonprofit that needs maybe 20-25 mailboxes?

-Joe-