<html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><META name="Author" content="Novell GroupWise WebAccess"></head><body style='font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; '>I've hosted my own mail for over ten years. I can't conceive of letting anyone else host it.<br>Of course a big part of my income derives from implementing and supporting mail systems for other organizations, so my efficiencies for doing this are probably a lot better than someone doing a one-off account for themselves.<br>-jt<br><br><br><br/><div style='clear: both;'><HTML><HEAD>
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<BODY>James Taylor<BR>The East Cobb Group, Inc.<BR>678-697-9420<BR>james.taylor@eastcobbgroup.com<BR><A href="http://www.eastcobbgroup.com">http://www.eastcobbgroup.com</A><BR><BR></BODY></HTML></div><br/>>>> "Michael B. Trausch" <mbt@naunetcorp.com> 04/02/13 11:44 AM >>><br>On 04/02/2013 11:33 AM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:<br>> Buy a domain name at 1and1.com and pay for their email only service.<br>> It's about $ 15 / year if I recall. Then, you mail can come to your<br>> own domain. It's a good idea (in my opinion) to pay something for<br>> such service. In terms of customer service and maintenance, you get<br>> what you pay for. $ 1.25 / month doesn't get you much in that<br>> regard, but with millions of customers, they have more funds to<br>> manage the data center and provide some help to needy customers. Try<br>> to get some help from gmail for a problem. Also, having your own<br>> domain name lends more credibility, which may be useful in some<br>> cases. The domain name costs about $ 8 / year.<br><br>Everyone, just remember:<br><br> * If your mail hosting is outsourced, the Government can read it<br> without a warrant after 180 days.<br><br> * If your email hosting is in-house, on your own equipment, the<br> government must always obtain a warrant to read messages stored on<br> the system.<br><br>If you want to ensure that your messages cannot be read without a<br>warrant and therefore mandatory service upon yourself or your business,<br>you should ensure that (a) you use an email service that purges all<br>messages no later than 180 days after receipt, or (b) host the mail<br>yourself, in-house.<br><br> --- Mike<br><br>-- <br>Michael B. Trausch, President<br>Naunet Corporation<br><br>Telephone: (678) 287-0693 x130<br>Toll-free: (888) 494-5810 x130<br>FAX: (678) 287-0693<br><br><br><br>If this is an unsolicited spam message, please click this link to report it: http://control.eastcobbgroup.com:49285/contents/spamreport.shtml?rptid=26219&srvid=16vl15t<br><br></body></html>