I need a reliable email supplier for my business email for my business. I am only a sole trader with the one Mac computer.

I also use an iPad and iPhone. I link all 3 using apple calendar and address book using iCloud. All my docs are in Dropbox.

I am currently with Heart Internet and I'm considering changing to another supplier. I just have their basic package for email only. I don't need a website.

Office 365 has been suggested. I understand that I can use my own domain name -I've seen a video on the website how to do it.

Any ideas or email suppliers of business push email recommended.

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I'd recommend Office 365, its really quite good. Having recently moved a Government agency to the platform i'd really recommend it, it'll support any device you throw at it including blackberry without having to get your hands dirty.

Couple of options.

Is your heart internet email on your domain or just something@heart-whatever ?

You'll need to think about migration, people who have your email currently. The migration to any new provider is fairly easy, you start sending from the new account, but your old contacts might not update.

Services like office 365 are becoming a norm. Up until a few months ago you could of gotten most of what it offers for free under googles equivalent product.

If you have paid for storage from dropbox, then you can either keep that, or migrate, again office and gmail et al will bundle some storage.

The only specific requirement you've asked for is push mail.

I don't use it nor ever have, I prefer to pull every n minutes, or manually as I'm frequently away from power.

The two paths would be a service like office365 or gmail for business http://www.google.co.../apps/business/

Path two would be in keeping with your heart internet email. Or a similar provider. You could register a domain, or use your current domain and forward mail to any address.

So for example I own skoda-motorsport.co.uk I could set up a gmail account colin-skoda-motorsport@gmail for free. Set my domain to forward all mail to my gmail account. e.g. hello@skoda-motorsport.... > colin-skoda...@gmail...

The driver and question is, why leave heart internet; guess reliability, any other similar to heart service may suffer the same fate.

I have my own domain name with Heart Internet and their basic email package.

The server on a global company rejected my email because my MTA has a poor reputation!!!

I have also had many issues with Heart. I had to stop using Apple mail because all of a sudden I was unable to send email. Moved over to Outlook 2011.

I send 10-15mb size emails, so need a decent supplier.

I need to be able to send email using my own domain name.

I've done forwarding in the past, but I don't want to use google et al for sending emails.

All my other email addresses are push so I would like my work email to be the same.

I don't have a problem with power, as the phone lasts a day, and 99% of the time I am in my car for part of the day, so could charge it if the battery gets low. I never turn off Wifi or Bluetooth which probably would help battery life.

With Office 365 do I need somebody like Heart Internet as well?

I have been looking at a company called Simply Mail Solutions.

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No with office 365 you dont need anyone else, they will host the email on one of their virtual exchange servers for you.

They also have tools you may be able to run if you have any email in your old providers mailbox to move it to them.

With office 365 no you would not. Except, who is your domain registered with?

If Heart you may incur a charge for keeping it alive. You know you have to renew it every x years.

So I use 123reg as my registrar and for 90% of my domains I just set the DNS for mail servers to that of my or my clients supplier. Be that google, a/n/other and so on.v 123 include dns mgmt under your reg fees and many others do too.

So assuming registered with heart,, and going with office 365 (it's a s good as any other and is recommended by at least one here ) you'd need to follow the migration guide and DNS settings.

I'd take some time to read and then pick when. I've not used office365, but if anything like similar, you can signup, get used to it then migrate in a naturally quiet email time. e.g. Friday night, giving your DNS settings time to catch up. A good idea, a few days before, like 7, set your refresh, or TTL on the dns records to 300; thats seconds. Any changes down the road will be reflected far quicker and minimise issues relating to DNS. After the migration, increase that back to the default, or 3600.

Guide, or part of one on DNS @ 365 http://office.micros...8204.aspx?CTT=1

We have already migrated 20k odd students onto Office 365 and will be moving 2000+ staff over soon.

Feedback from those that have moved has been very positive!

Looks daunting, but I think could cope with it.

Thanks Guys.

We offer hosted exchange if that helps

www.proactiveits.co.uk

Can send you over more info tomorrow.

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Looks daunting, but I think could cope with it.

Thanks Guys.

If you get stuck with any of it drop me a PM

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Edited 13 May, 201313 yr by Avalon

If you get stuck with any of it drop me a PM

Thanks

I now have to decide which version to go for.

Looks to me like the hosted email exchange online plan 1 for £2.60+ vat a month one is the best for me. I already have office 2011, and I only really want the email side of things.

I can't see any need at the moment to use the web apps, as I take my laptop with me and use Dropbox for my data which is free. I never use anybody else's pc.

I currently only have 400mb storage for my emails, so 25gb should be plenty!

I rarely connect my MacBook to the Internet when away from home, and it lasts me up to 10 hours on a single charge, which means it lasts me a day out in the field. (Wifi off, Bluetooth on, screen about 50% using inboard graphics)

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https://www.vidahost.com/web-hosting/overview

Personally i'd google any potential hosting co. then have a look at some of the hosting review sites and Facebook/twitter to see what gets mentioned, some of the hosting reviews were great but the forum feedback wasn't and some seem to ignore twitter/Facebook for months at a time which doesn't fill me with confidence especially when customers are slating them without so much as a reply.

Edited 14 May, 201313 yr by Avalon

Have a look at TSO Host. www.tsohost.co.uk

https://www.vidahost...osting/overview

Personally i'd google any potential hosting co. then have a look at some of the hosting review sites and Facebook/twitter to see what gets mentioned, some of the hosting reviews were great but the forum feedback wasn't and some seem to ignore twitter/Facebook for months at a time which doesn't fill me with confidence especially when customers are slating them without so much as a reply.

Do you work for vidahost? :think:

If our business involves emailing any personal identifiable details of clients you will have to consider how any cloud service will deal with Data Protection legislation. Also if you're work has a high intellectual property value (designs, images, photography) you will have to look closely at the licenses the service may grant itself over your content and who will have access to that content.

You will also have to consider how you will deal with any loss of service from them (they have all gone tits up at some point in their history) and also consider how you will manage backups, retention and destruction of your information.

If you go into them with your eye open and an awareness of the risks these services can be very good options for small businesses.