What email service do you use for your small business?
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Hello,
As above, I'm trying to work out what is the best solution for us. There are three of us that need access to emails.
I'm not sure whether using a service that provides it's own servers for emails is a better bet than using our webmail service (and then using a client such as Thunderbird) with that.
I tried G Suite, but didn't like the way it was necessary to continuously switch accounts within Chrome. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
I didn't find the right solution from the internet.
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Office 365 is a really good offering and for the price it is hard to beat.
I know there are some Zimbra users around here as well and with version 8 in the works you'll have a decent modern UI. This would be something you'd host yourself, I didn't find any Zimbra hosting that could compete with Office 365 when we were looking.
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Office365 here. For small business, the amount of features you get, along WITH email, for the small price, is pretty hard to beat. Literally next to zero maintenance/administration required.
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For my small business of one, I have an Office 365 Business Premium subscription (1 license), which I’ll downgrade to Business Essentials soon. Both provide Exchange Online.
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Depending on size of the company. Zoho has mail for 10 users with a custom domain for free. It actually has an incredibly robust web client.
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For three people, I'll vote for Zoho as well.
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Are you in IT? I would use what your customers are using. If they are on Office 365, you should be as well so you can try stuff and be familiar with how it works.
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As far as Gmail and Chrome, you can set Chrome to open a set of pages at start up. Just have each account open to its own tab and you're set.
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The only miniscule gripe with O365 MIGHT be that they don't have a bare bones plan with JUST e-mail.
But really, for $4 ... if it is for business, that should be able to be justified.
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@brrabill said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
The only miniscule gripe with O365 MIGHT be that they don't have a bare bones plan with JUST e-mail.
But really, for $4 ... if it is for business, that should be able to be justified.
What do you mean JUST email? The $4 plan is just email.
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@brrabill said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
The only miniscule gripe with O365 MIGHT be that they don't have a bare bones plan with JUST e-mail.
But really, for $4 ... if it is for business, that should be able to be justified.
Exchange Online Plan 1 is the just E-mail offering. As Scott said it's $4 / user / month.
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@eddiejennings said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@brrabill said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
The only miniscule gripe with O365 MIGHT be that they don't have a bare bones plan with JUST e-mail.
But really, for $4 ... if it is for business, that should be able to be justified.
Exchange Online Plan 1 is the just E-mail offering. As Scott said it's $4 / user / month.
If you go to $5 you get loads of features beyond email.
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@williamhawk said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
I tried G Suite, but didn't like the way it was necessary to continuously switch accounts within Chrome. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Why are you constantly switching accounts? If you mean a person account vs your business account, then as someone mentioned - it sounds like Chrome can open two different mailboxes over two different tabs.
If you're a FireFox user, the add-on Multi Account Containers will allow this same functionality (someone else on ML recently posted about this add-on, it's pretty cool!). -
@dashrender said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@williamhawk said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
I tried G Suite, but didn't like the way it was necessary to continuously switch accounts within Chrome. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Why are you constantly switching accounts? If you mean a person account vs your business account, then as someone mentioned - it sounds like Chrome can open two different mailboxes over two different tabs.
If you're a FireFox user, the add-on Multi Account Containers will allow this same functionality (someone else on ML recently posted about this add-on, it's pretty cool!).Google has always been designed to work wi5hout needing any stupid account containers.
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@jaredbusch said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@dashrender said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@williamhawk said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
I tried G Suite, but didn't like the way it was necessary to continuously switch accounts within Chrome. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Why are you constantly switching accounts? If you mean a person account vs your business account, then as someone mentioned - it sounds like Chrome can open two different mailboxes over two different tabs.
If you're a FireFox user, the add-on Multi Account Containers will allow this same functionality (someone else on ML recently posted about this add-on, it's pretty cool!).Google has always been designed to work wi5hout needing any stupid account containers.
This only works for certain functions. As someone who needs to do this, I can tell you, it works but it is more cumbersome than you'd hope and very slow.
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@scottalanmiller said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@brrabill said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
The only miniscule gripe with O365 MIGHT be that they don't have a bare bones plan with JUST e-mail.
But really, for $4 ... if it is for business, that should be able to be justified.
What do you mean JUST email? The $4 plan is just email.
Oh, sorry, I mean like a "reduced" e-mail like some places used to offer for $1 or $2. For devices and things that can't use aliases but don't need a 50GB mailbox and full Exchange features.
BTW: you consider full Exchange (aka, contacts, calendaring, ActiveSync) JUST e-mail?
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@brrabill said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@scottalanmiller said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@brrabill said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
The only miniscule gripe with O365 MIGHT be that they don't have a bare bones plan with JUST e-mail.
But really, for $4 ... if it is for business, that should be able to be justified.
What do you mean JUST email? The $4 plan is just email.
Oh, sorry, I mean like a "reduced" e-mail like some places used to offer for $1 or $2. For devices and things that can't use aliases but don't need a 50GB mailbox and full Exchange features.
BTW: you consider full Exchange (aka, contacts, calendaring, ActiveSync) JUST e-mail?
If I recall right, they have an Exchange Online Kiosk plan that's stripped down. I don't recall the details about it though--been a while since I looked at it.
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I use G-Suite or ZOho.
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@scottalanmiller said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@jaredbusch said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@dashrender said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@williamhawk said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
I tried G Suite, but didn't like the way it was necessary to continuously switch accounts within Chrome. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Why are you constantly switching accounts? If you mean a person account vs your business account, then as someone mentioned - it sounds like Chrome can open two different mailboxes over two different tabs.
If you're a FireFox user, the add-on Multi Account Containers will allow this same functionality (someone else on ML recently posted about this add-on, it's pretty cool!).Google has always been designed to work wi5hout needing any stupid account containers.
This only works for certain functions. As someone who needs to do this, I can tell you, it works but it is more cumbersome than you'd hope and very slow.
Right, it works for email and calendar though. What else do users need?
From the administration side, that is different.
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@jaredbusch said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@scottalanmiller said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@jaredbusch said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@dashrender said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
@williamhawk said in What email service do you use for your small business?:
I tried G Suite, but didn't like the way it was necessary to continuously switch accounts within Chrome. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
Why are you constantly switching accounts? If you mean a person account vs your business account, then as someone mentioned - it sounds like Chrome can open two different mailboxes over two different tabs.
If you're a FireFox user, the add-on Multi Account Containers will allow this same functionality (someone else on ML recently posted about this add-on, it's pretty cool!).Google has always been designed to work wi5hout needing any stupid account containers.
This only works for certain functions. As someone who needs to do this, I can tell you, it works but it is more cumbersome than you'd hope and very slow.
Right, it works for email and calendar though. What else do users need?
From the administration side, that is different.
It makes authentication to other apps complex.
