Thread: Need Exchange Hosting

Don't forget on many activesync devices you can only have one physical email account, although you can alias other addresses to it typically, but all your email will arrive to one account, unless you get jiggy with some rules to auto folder it.

You "might" be better with IMAP and a number of accounts perhaps.

Originally Posted by gaz77

I'm also not sure if Exchange works with Android

In *general* any mail client will collect email from any mail server - operating system is irrelevant if either app if following the RFC's

Sounds like you need an IMAP email service and then can use your 'droid phone, thunderbird and outlook on the same service ...

How much email do you get per day and how much do you want to "store" serverside (vs POP3ing to your local machines) - i.e. how much of the historical mail do you ever need to access from the other devices ?

Originally Posted by gaz77

I hadn't thought about imap. I suppose the synchronised calendar and contacts with exchange would be useful though.

If you're activesync'ing a windows phone it does that out-of-the-box with your outlook, has nothing to do with the server (by default)

Originally Posted by gaz77

Ideally I'd like access to all emails going back years, but if that's not possible on phones, then it's not a big issue.

The bigger the IMAP folder the longer the phone will take keeping it's copy of the headers inline with the server-side copy - depends if you want to spend 2 minutes getting your email or 20

Originally Posted by gaz77

That's partly why the the free outlook on some deals was attractive

Orange phones come with a copy too, no idea about other suppliers.

Do you want to "mix" your work email and personal email on the same devices ?

Originally Posted by gaz77

Thanks for the suggestions.

First, I hadn't realised that many activesync devices only handled one email account. That could be an issue, as ideally I'd like access to all email account on my phone, and be able to reply with the correct email address.
Are there any phones that do handle multiple accounts?

A jailbroken iPhone with some modification can, but I would recommend against going that route. It can be a pain to set up, stop random things working and makes keeping up to date difficult.

Originally Posted by gaz77

I hadn't thought about imap. I suppose the synchronised calendar and contacts with exchange would be useful though

You could always look at the open CalDAV and CardDAV standards. Don't know what mobile devices support these yet though.
I think the iPhone running OS v3.1 supports CalDAV but not CardDAV, so you only get contacts synced via iTunes with a cable and not over the air.

Originally Posted by othelloRob

The bigger the IMAP folder the longer the phone will take keeping it's copy of the headers inline with the server-side copy - depends if you want to spend 2 minutes getting your email or 20

True, but most clients let you set a retention and header get period so you don't have to scrape it all..

Originally Posted by gaz77

Going back to Exchange, are there any hosts out there doing good deals for using 4 mailboxes?

To be honest with Exchange so much of the money goes to Microsoft that you are going to pay pretty much n x mailbox price if you want n mailboxes until you get to at least n > 25.

We would be happy to quote you but if price is the key issue then at the moment we can't compete with Microsoft's own Exchange offering as our SPLA licensing costs alone are more than their sell price.

Gavin

Can you not get at all those via IMAP? I would be surprised if Yahoo don't allow it, but then again I could be wrong and Exchange does too, although corporate policy many not allow it again.

Nothing stopping you having 4 ISP IMAP accounts I guess and forwarding that which doesn't support it, or can't by policy to them. It does make replying to email a bit of a mess tho unless the sending server performs a header intact forward so it doesn't look like the email has come from that server, and still from the original sender.