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Posted by Ken
Mar 2, 2015 at 01:42 AM
I am looking for web-based email clients beyond GMail and Outllook/Office 365 for handling mail that is sent to my web host. They offer SquirrelMail, AtMail and RoundCube to access their servers from the web, and I am presently using the latter as it is the best of the bunch. But, I guess that I am used to GMail, and find that RoundeCube is a bit lacking in features. Are there other affordable web-based mail clients that I could consider? This is for a dedicated mail account for some volunteer work that I will be doing, and I want to keep it separate from my personal mail. It would also be great if there was a way for me to receive notifications of mail received on my Android phone without the whole message being delivered, but my web host only offers forwarding. I hate to have to spend money for another Google Apps account as I only need the mailbox, but I guess that I have become accustomed to its interface, and to a lesser degree Outlook installed on my W7 PC at work, that RoundCube is just not ideal, although it is workable. Any suggestions? I really want to be able to access this account from my home PC and from my work PC.
Thanks,
—Ken
Posted by jaslar
Mar 2, 2015 at 10:36 PM
I have to manage a series of emails to 56,000 people. I break it into maybe 30 groups, and have maybe 3 messages apiece. While I have gmail, I suspect it’s not the best choice for that. So I’d love some tips, too, from anyone who can recommend a free solution. Thanks.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Mar 3, 2015 at 07:33 PM
@ Ken: if you are used to Gmail, I don’t think you’ll find anything comparable. But why not simply open another free Gmail.com account (rather than Google Apps)? The free Gmail can still be connected to external mail services at least via POP3. And of course you can access it via Android.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Mar 4, 2015 at 02:04 PM
1&1 also do a perfectly acceptable web mail client as part of their (very cheap) website deals. There’s a more sophisticated Open Xchange-based version, but that costs extra. The basic webmail client is actually quite good.
Posted by Ken
Mar 4, 2015 at 04:12 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
@ Ken: if you are used to Gmail, I don’t think you’ll find anything
>comparable. But why not simply open another free Gmail.com account
>(rather than Google Apps)? The free Gmail can still be connected to
>external mail services at least via POP3. And of course you can access
>it via Android.
I had not considered a POP3 arrangement with Gmail, and was mostly looking at domain aliases and/or forwarding, but I will give it some consideration. Google recently changed their protocol regarding domain aliases and responding to forwarded messages, so they now almost always say “on behalf of” in the address. This is visible in Outlook, and some other clients, but it looks a bit unprofessional IMHO. I wonder if this is the case with POP3 arrangement?
—Ken