Who's Hosting your IMAP accounts?

[the_ordinary]

Our current webhost is great, but they only allow 20 concurrent processes at a time. An IMAP process counts as a process. SO if 20 people check their email at the same time, we have about a dozen websites go offline for 15 minutes.

We need a reliable host just for email. But not gmail; we need more privacy than gmail offers. Does anyone know of an email host who is:

• (preferably) free
• allows unlimited imap connections
• (preferably) allows end-users to sign themselves up, change passwords, etc.

Who's hosting your imap accounts?

Thanks.

[jimcavoli]

Man, if you could ever find that sort of a host, I'd be floored.

[bigsend]

Our current webhost is great, but they only allow 20 concurrent processes at a time. An IMAP process counts as a process. SO if 20 people check their email at the same time, we have about a dozen websites go offline for 15 minutes.

We need a reliable host just for email. But not gmail; we need more privacy than gmail offers. Does anyone know of an email host who is:

• (preferably) free
• allows unlimited imap connections
• (preferably) allows end-users to sign themselves up, change passwords, etc.

Who's hosting your imap accounts?

Thanks.

Isn't GMAIL back by an SSL connection? What kind of privacy are you looking for?

Or does this have to do with bots which find keywords in your emails and show ads... (but do real people actually go through the billions of emails out there and read them?)