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Offline techdude

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Need a Email Host
« on: May 15, 2008, 12:40:10 PM »
I would like to provide my website visitors with a free email service, and I am in search of a host to host the email accounts and the PHP webmail script. I am looking for the following:

Provides a large amount of disk space and large amount of bandwidth (over a few TBs or unlimited)
Provides unlimited email accounts with IMAP and POP
Can't have any tough restrictions on how many emails can be sent from my account per hour or per day (I am hosting a free email service of course)...or Any idea for hosts that have a rule such as 100 emails per day per email account?

I have a budget of about $100 per year for this project. Anyone have hosts to recommend?

Offline briantx

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Need a Email Host
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2008, 12:55:01 PM »
take a look at hostmonster.com, they have unlimited ;)

Offline techdude

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Need a Email Host
« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2008, 01:04:54 PM »
But what are their limitations on sending email?

Offline sfreemanRCM

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http://www.hostmonster.com/
« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2008, 05:12:52 PM »

Offline Barbouille

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Need a Email Host
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2008, 07:51:54 PM »
Hi

I am a Bluehost customer and Hostmonster and fastdomain belong to the same owner and they all have the same email policy: a limitation of 50 emails per hour. If you speak to support they may--upon hearing why you want your limit increased agree to increase it to an ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM of 500 emails per hour. The limit is not per email account but per domain.

So, if you setup 500 email accounts, they--as a group--will be allowed a total of 50 or 500 emails per hour. This is done in an attempt to prevent spam. Don't forget you are talking shared hosting here which means that there could be several hundreds of domains sharing the same server (SAME IP ADDRESS). I

f too many spam emails are identified by a given domain as coming from your server (one given IP address), that domain might block your IP address and identify it as a spam source. Given that several hundreds of domains would see their email blocked because of you, that would make a lot of angry people. Hence that policy.

So, I think you might be better off to look elsewhere.

Hope this helps