The best paid mail. Free and paid email. Mailbox as your identity

30.10.2016 (admin)

There are a lot of paid email services, but to create your own mailbox, you need not only to purchase hosting from the provider and pay for it regularly. This will require quite a lot of specialized knowledge that will be required when setting up servers and names, as well as setting up a spam filter. Therefore, here we will consider ready-made services that require only registration and regular payments from users.

1and1.com

The number of people using this service is over several million, so it can be called one of the most famous in its segment. Customers are provided with a mailbox with a capacity of 2 GB, the monthly cost of which in the first year will be $ 1, and in subsequent years it will be twice as expensive.

The main advantage of this service is that in addition to the main mailbox, it provides the opportunity to create five more pieces for free. However, payment must be made at once for the entire year.

There is another indisputable drawback here - the service is not Russified. In addition, there is no free time for familiarization. But, if the user does not like using the mailbox there, then 1and1.com is ready to return the money to him.

The minimum cost of using this service is $ 5. Its servers are located in Norway, which ensures complete security and inaccessibility for special services.

As the name of the service implies, it works really fast, which is very important when you are in roaming. In addition, it has a simple interface and no unnecessary applications.

But the main advantage is that each user is provided with two months of free trial.

Despite the fact that this service is not as famous as all of the above, it has not become less interesting from this. In addition to the fact that its servers are located in Norway, ensuring complete privacy, it offers a month of trial use and two years of use for the same price.

The only disadvantage is the relatively high cost of use, starting at $ 20 per year. At the same time, a 1 GB mailbox is provided in the absence of hosting. When purchasing a hosting with a capacity of 15 GB, you will have to pay $ 80 per year.

This service provides many opportunities and two tariff plans, for one of which you will have to pay $ 24 per year, and for the other only $ 10. Despite the fact that Rackspace is more suitable for businessmen, the possibility of using a 25 GB mailbox attracts ordinary users.

Review of paid email services updated: March 26, 2017 by the author: admin

As a rule, many people approach the choice of a box for their e-mail frivolously - they puzzle for a long time over which one to come up with account and password, but at the same time they do not attach any importance to which of the services to choose. Often, when registering free mail, they are guided, first of all, by the domain name. Someone wants this domain to display its location, like [email protected], and for others it is important that the address is simple and very easy to remember, such as, for example, [email protected] Meanwhile, you should pay attention to completely different features of mail - what tools are used to combat spam, whether mail clients are supported, how stable the service is, etc.

Many users have a mailbox provided by their provider. However, for those who lead active life on the web, it's not enough. An email address is required when registering for various services and forums, and using the provider's mailbox for these purposes is fraught with the fact that after a while it will turn into a spam collector. Therefore, many users always have at their disposal not one, but several mailboxes at once - one for correspondence, and the rest for registering in various online stores, communities, etc. The good thing about this approach is that it is always easy to refuse from "additional" boxes if the need arises.

So, what are the best postal services to use for receiving and sending correspondence? Read on in our review.

Mail.com

If you try to come up with the simplest version of a domain address for mail, then imagine something more trivial than an address [email protected], difficult. If you try to follow this link in a browser, the free e-mail service of the same name will open. Upon closer examination of this service, it turns out that it is not so simple at all. This service offers about three hundred domain addresses for mail alone - this is where there really is plenty to choose from. Offered in a huge number of mail domains are sorted into categories to make it easier to navigate this variety. So, in the list of suggested names for mail there are names of cities and countries, for example, paris.com or singapore.com. You can also choose a domain for your mail based on your hobby, for example, elvisfan.com or bikerider.com. And what professions are not on this list! From archaeologist, sociologist and orthopedist to engineer and politician. There are also domains for fun-loving people who want to stand out for their originality (in this group, the domains humanoid.net and tvstar.com were especially amused), as well as domains with country names and related to religion.

As for the domains themselves, no sites at these addresses exist and, which is especially strange, from these addresses there is no transfer to mail.com.

Mail.com offers users a paid email option with unlimited space, no ads, and a number of other benefits. The free three gigabyte mailbox has a system of customizable anti-spam filters. You can also set up five email addresses in your account settings, from which the service will automatically upload incoming mail to your mail.com account.

The web-based mailbox interface includes a notepad. It is convenient to make various notes in this notebook, any text entries no more than five thousand characters long. Notes can be categorized, sorted into groups, etc. For example, you can leave yourself a reminder to send a congratulatory letter to someone, or of some other important event. The idea of \u200b\u200bsuch a tool, it would seem, is quite interesting, but our attempt to leave a message in Russian did not lead to anything good - the text immediately turned into gibberish. The lack of support for the Russian language is undignified for such a large service, especially since in the list of domain names for choosing an email address there is an option russianmail.com... Agree, it's rather strange to have a mail account with such a domain, and at the same time not be able to work with mail tools in Russian.

In conclusion, we note that for some reason we did not manage to register on the Mail.com service right away. Probably, the picture with the confirmation code is to blame, which should provide protection against automatic registration - on Mail.com, she did not want to let us through. Apparently, we were simply not lucky - the site was undergoing maintenance work, and after a few hours, it was possible to register accounts without hindrance.

Registering on one of the most popular mail services in the world has a significant drawback - filling out the name form for an account, it is impossible to check immediately if such a user already exists. In addition, even if you try again, the service does not offer guaranteed free options for your email account, but simply states "This login is not available." Considering how many users use mail on this service, it becomes clear that it will not be easy to find an unoccupied concise and understandable name.

After registering a mail account, you can work with all services Yahoo!using the same account. The inbox on Yahoo! Mail includes a chat, so by logging into the web interface of your mail, you can exchange instant messages with everyone who uses the similar service Yahoo! or Windows Live.

The mail interface is available in both English and Russian. Despite this, you should not place high hopes on the translation of email tools - some phrases are frankly baffling with their meaninglessness.

The size of the mailbox on this service is not limited, but the size of the sent attachments should not exceed 10 megabytes.

Yahoo! Mail has two interfaces - classic and updated. The user can quickly switch between these options without ending the current session on the server. More a new version e-mail resembles working in an e-mail client - you can simultaneously view the list of letters and the text of the selected message, and the download of messages is almost instantaneous and does not require page refresh. However, the new version of the interface does not work in all browsers. For example, Opera is not officially supported.

The mailbox contains an address book. You can copy contacts from various mail clients to it - Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape / Thunderbird and Palm Desktop. You can do the opposite - you can export the address book to these applications.

For an additional fee ($ 20 per year), users can look forward to more advanced features. The paid version of the Yahoo! Mail Plus mail service has a number of advantages - support for mail clients that work with the POP3 protocol, a larger attachment size - up to 20 megabytes - and some others. However, the most interesting feature of the paid version of the service is the AddressGuard anti-spam system. Its essence is as follows. Suppose the user already has free account on Yahoo !, let's say [email protected] He uses this mailbox both at home and at work, so the probability of a spam attack is quite high. The easiest way to protect yourself from the invasion of advertising and junk letters is not to give the address to everyone. Let's say a user decided to register in an online store. To do this, using the AddressGuard system, he creates a so-called disposable mailbox, say, [email protected] (the user comes up with the name for this disposable box). The user uses this address when registering in this store. Any correspondence that comes to [email protected], automatically goes into the box [email protected] After a while, to the address of a disposable box [email protected] spam starts coming in. The user deletes the specially created one-time address created using the AddressGuard system, after which the spam flow stops. It would be nice to adopt this anti-spam system for other popular services.

One of the advantages of the Rambler Mail service is support for the IMAP protocol, which is an alternative to the POP3 protocol (the latter is also supported by the service). The maximum size of an attachment that can be sent in one letter using this mail is up to twenty megabytes. This is one of the best "indicators" among the test participants.

Especially for mobile phones and other portable devices, such as PDA, the postal service provides a simplified version of the mobile mail service available at mobile.rambler.ru.

Initially, the mailbox size is 50 megabytes. This volume can be increased to 1000 megabytes, though not immediately. The free space for letters provided by Rambler Mail can be increased by an additional 50 megabytes once a day. If you count, it turns out that this "under-gigabyte" is achieved in as many as twenty days, unless, of course, you get tired of increasing the box every day. Of course, 50 megabytes for mail is quite a sufficient amount, but only if you do not send large attachments and do not conduct active correspondence. If you start a mailbox for work, then, we believe, sending documents and communicating with business partners will quickly exhaust the free space.

The information about the maximum allowable message size looks somewhat confusing. The maximum size of a sent message with attachments is 25 megabytes. There is a warning in the service usage rules that the file is being encoded in transit and therefore increases in size by approximately 30 percent. This, in turn, means that the actual maximum file size that can be sent will be no more than 18 megabytes. The maximum size of a received letter can be up to 25 megabytes.

If you access your mailbox from a region where a keyboard with a Russian layout is very rare, you can use one of the useful tools of the service for typing - virtual keyboard.

This popular email service needs no advertising. Many people still remember that when Gmail just started its work, registration of accounts on it was possible only by invitation, and the size of the mailbox at that time seemed just huge - a whole gigabyte. But time passes, today the Gmail mail service is one of the most popular on the Internet, and the volume of the free mailbox provided is regularly increasing. It is easy to see this with your own eyes - on start page the service has a counter that constantly runs forward and "winds up" the size of the mailbox on Gmail. At the time of this writing, this number has exceeded seven gigabytes.

Please note that despite the fact that the maximum attachment size for one letter is 20 MB, the message sent will not be delivered if the total size of the text message and attachment exceeds this size.

Large mailbox volumeprovided to users of Gmail gives rise to some ideas about its misuse. But you shouldn't speculate on your account. It is enough to start actively sending or receiving large batches of data through the Gmail account, and the service will immediately block the account, first for a short period, then for a longer period of time, and if the user does not change his line of behavior, it will completely close his account for violation rules for using the service. The same can happen if the service detects any "unusual use" of mail, for example, when the service is used to send bulk emails, among which there are many undelivered messages returned back. Also, the service may be suspicious of a large number of connections to the mail web interface in a relatively short period of time. At one time we were "lucky" to check this situation for ourselves - when the "Enter" key was stuck on the keyboard, the service quickly reacted to numerous reloads of the page with mail and temporarily restricted access to the mail account.

Sorting letters in the inbox Gmail has a distinctive feature - all sent emails are grouped with replies to them. These groups are called "chains" and are very convenient for keeping track of the history of correspondence.

Anti-spamin general, Gmail is implemented well, but not without flaws, and from time to time the service does not allow quite harmless letters. Having marked the incoming letter as spam, you can be calm - next time the junk message will go to the Spam folder, bypassing the Inbox. But if Gmail mistook one of the correspondents for a spammer, then even if his address is marked as trusted, there is still a possibility that the next time the message will be mistaken for spam. This issue will likely be fixed in the future, but if you use a mailbox on this service, we would advise you to review the contents of your spam folder from time to time. It contains no, no, and there is an erroneously filtered letter.

Gmail has a lot of focus on security. The bottom of the page displays information about when you last logged in with your account, and if it is open on some other computer. In addition, Gmail shows the IP address on which the account is open. This feature is especially useful for those users who frequently check mail from different places and may forget to log out of the account. If desired, you can quickly end all but one session. If you wish, you can get more detailed information about using your account. So by clicking on the link " Additional Information"next to the IP address, you can see from which IP addresses you have recently accessed Gmail and in what manner (mobile phone, POP3, etc.). This is a very useful feature that will help you make sure that your account is not being used by anyone else.

If you decide to use the Gmail service, we advise you to pay attention to ads that are displayed unobtrusively on the page with received messages. The fact is that unlike other services where an abundance of ads is only annoying, Google ads may well interest you. Firstly, there are few advertisements on the page with mail, and secondly, the topic for advertisements is not random, it is selected taking into account the words that are found in received and sent mail messages. For example, after you send a letter to your friend that you have always dreamed of having a car, an advertising message from a company that sells this particular product may appear on the page.

Post service Gmail allows you to search by key phrase in all correspondence. The search results will be displayed on the screen, and the requested phrase will be highlighted in yellow.

One of interesting features Gmail, which has become available to users relatively recently - the presence of colorful themes for the design of the mailbox. Users have 30 themes at their disposal, thanks to which Gmail, for example, can sparkle with chrome trim or resemble a retro notebook. You can choose between "nature" themes that change with the time of day, or "weather-dependent" themes that can cause rain in the Gmail window. In addition, funny characters can now live in the mail all the time. New Gmail themes even include an old-school ascii-style Terminal interface that was created as a result of a dispute between two engineers. To choose a theme to your liking, go to the "Settings" section and select the "Themes" tab.

The name of this service is confusing to many, most mistakenly assume that this service may have something to do with the postal service from Google. Even the Gmail.ru logo is made in a rainbow palette and resembles the logo of another service from Google. But, nevertheless, this is a completely different project that has nothing to do with Gmail. The number of domain names for registering mail on this service is steadily increasing. The fact is that the policy of Gmail.ru is to attract owners of any domain names who want to organize a free mail service. The only requirement put forward by the resource is that the website must have a daily attendance of at least 500 visitors. This is where the whole activity of the service ends - registration for any of the offered domains does not take place, due to which the pseudo-service gets into our black list.

Users who decide to set up a mailbox like [email protected]will be quite surprised when they see its interface.

Doesn't it look like anything? There is no doubt that the web-interface of this mailbox practically does not differ from the web-interface of mail. Gmail... The similarities are visible in everything - the same menu, text editing tools, a set of tools. The fact that mail on bigmir.net runs on the engine of an advanced mail service from Google is also indicated by the fact that if you open the mail management help, you can be on the Gmail mail help page. The secret is revealed simply - in 2007 the company bigmir.net used affiliate program Google Apps Partner Edition and changed the mail engine to a module similar to Gmail. At the same time, users won - they received stable work service, the ability to automatically sort letters, spam protection. And also - the constantly growing volume of the mailbox (on the bigmir.net page there is even a spinning counter of the current mail size, the same as on Gmail). The only difference between the services is a different domain in the name.

Almost every mail service develops its own anti-spam technology (that's really a headache for the entire Internet!). The KM Mail service is no exception, which uses a special anti-spam tool called Quarantine. This method the fight against spam is that the received letter is placed in the Inbox only in one of two cases. The first is if its sender is in the "white list" of the recipient. The second is if the sender confirms the automatic request sent to him when receiving a message from him. To confirm, you must either follow the link specified in the letter, or respond, leaving the letter unchanged.

Several files with a total size of no more than 7.5 megabytes can be attached to each sent message.

All incoming mail is checked by the Dr.Web anti-virus, which blocks the entry of mail worms, Trojans and other viruses into the mailbox.

In the mailbox settings, you can configure an SMS notification about the arrival of a new letter, so that every time new messages arrive, you can quickly respond to them. Unfortunately, not all mobile operators support this feature, so check the list of available operators before setting up. This function works both in Russia and in other neighboring countries, for example, in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Belarus, etc.

The first thing that pleases me when registering for this service is an unlimited mailbox. The service rules state that after registration a mailbox takes up 100 megabytes, however, the free space counter in the mailbox has a maximum mark of 512 megabytes, so it is difficult to judge the exact volume of a mailbox immediately after its creation. In general, the space in the mailbox can be as large as it is required - as soon as the free space is less than 10 megabytes, on the folder list page, to the right of the inbox full indicator, an "increase" link will appear, allowing you to increase the mailbox size by another 100 megabytes. You can increase the size of the box many times, but not more often than once a day.

Registration of a postal address is available in the following domains: pochta.ru, fromru.com, front.ru, hotbox.ru, hotmail.ru, krovatka.su, land.ru, mail15.com, mail333.com, newmail.ru, nightmail. ru, nm.ru, pisem.net, pochtamt.ru, pop3.ru, rbcmail.ru and smtp.ru.

The secret question, which must be specified when registering a free mailbox, has to be invented and typed in the appropriate field by yourself. As usual, this service does not offer pre-prepared questions, and, as it seems to us, in vain - why waste time filling out a question if the main thing is the answer typed by the user.

When entering the web-based mail interface, the service shows not only the time of the last access to e-mail through the browser, but also the last access via the SMTP, POP3 and IMAP4 protocols.

Antivirus and antispam are used to protect correspondence. The service supports spell checking and allows you to translate typed text from English into Russian and vice versa. If necessary, you can use the answering machine function. In this case, you can draw up a number of rules according to which a response will be automatically sent. This opportunity is very convenient to use when you go on vacation - everyone who sends letters may receive a notification, for example: "I am vacationing in the Maldives, I forgot my phone at home, it's useless to call. I won't be home until 21st."

If within six months the service has not recorded a single authorized access to this account (via the web interface or using an email client), the mailbox may be closed.

Additional features of the Pochta.ru service should be noted free hosting... The terms of this hosting are very modest, there is no support for CGI, PHP, ASP, JSP and other scripts that require execution on the server side. And the amount of space for the site will only work for a business card site - in total, up to 256 megabytes of data and up to 1000 files can be stored on the FTP server.

In addition, the service offers to use its own file storage with the ability to restrict access by password. The maximum file size, as well as the total size of all uploaded files, should not exceed 16 megabytes.

The most popular Russian free mail service immediately provides a box with a volume of 10 gigabytes. Mail size can be increased many times, and the size of the mailbox increases by 2 gigabytes at a time.

This mail service fights not only against spam, but also against spammers who try to use the [email protected] service for their nefarious purposes. However, this does not mean that mass mailings cannot be performed using a mailbox on Mail.Ru. Sending advertising messages by e-mail is possible, but only on the condition that the company or an individual who is engaged in this has received confirmation of consent to receive such mailings from the addressee. All mail passing through the servers of the Mail.Ru mail service is automatically scanned for viruses by Kaspersky Anti-Virus.

For those who work with e-mail through a browser, Mail @ Mail.Ru gives the opportunity to use a diary. This tool is a handy organizer in which you can store various reminders of scheduled appointments, business contacts, etc.

One more convenient function the service concerns file transfer. Any letter sent from this service can contain up to twenty attachments, with a total volume of up to 30 megabytes. However, if you need to send files bigger size, It's not a problem. In this case, they will be automatically uploaded to the Files @ Mail.Ru service and sent as links in the message. Using this feature, you can send 20 files with a total volume of up to 20 GB with one letter.

If a letter received by Mail.Ru contains a lot of attachments, you can not waste your time downloading each of them separately, but download all attachments at once, as a single archive.

For those who are worried about the problem of data confidentiality, and who fear that an attacker will find out the password to e-mail and gain access to correspondence, the service provides the ability to protect data with a password. The mailbox creates new folder, all important messages are moved to it, after which the access rights to this folder are limited by a password. In case the password is lost, you can come up with an additional one to recover it. secret Question, the answer to which the attacker, of course, will not know. The folder itself with the "hidden" data can be made invisible to mail clients.

And finally, one more plus for this service - ample opportunities formatting messages. In the text of letters, you can use up to 136 different emoticons, use bulleted and numbered lists, use a different typeface, background color, etc.

It's no secret that many people use email to receive notifications from various social services - forums, communities, etc. For such users, on the main page of the Yandex.Mail service, in the block of the same name, you can see a counter of notifications from several social services at once - Livejournal.com, vkontakte.ru and Odnoklassniki.ru.

The size of the mailbox on Yandex.Mail is unlimited. After registering the box, its initial volume is 10 gigabytes. When it is more than 98 percent full, the service offers the user an additional gigabyte of storage space for letters. And so - ad infinitum.

A typical attachment when sending letters from Yandex.Mail can take no more than 20 megabytes, but larger files can also be sent, but with the help of another service - Yandex.Narod, which any owner of a mailbox can use for free.

Anti-spam protection of the mailbox is implemented in several stages. First, when a new message arrives, the postal service filters out obvious garbage, i.e. messages that are easy to identify as unwanted. A characteristic feature of spam, by which the service control determines such messages, is an unmanaged sending server. If this fact is found, the Yandex service will reject the received letter and send a notification to mail server the sender indicating the reason for the denial of access, so that in case of misunderstanding, this problem can be resolved. At the next stage of the scan, messages are scanned for viruses and other unwanted attachments. The check is performed by the Dr.Web anti-virus program.

In the process of sending a letter, an unpleasant situation may arise when the sender himself does not suspect that the letter sent by him contains a virus. Some mail services, if a virus is detected in such a letter, do not let it through. If this letter contained nothing but a virus, such an action by the mail service could be considered justified, but in this case, the sender provides some useful information, therefore, after deleting the letter with the attachment, not only the virus, but also the reported one will not reach the mailbox owner. the text contains useful information. The Yandex.Mail service takes this circumstance into account and proceeds differently - the message will be rejected only if the message contains no text. If there is text, the mail service will mark this message as infected.

After the message has been scanned by the antivirus, a filter starts working, which processes new signs of spam - a large number of recipient addresses, the presence keywords and phrases, etc. Messages that are transferred by the service to the "Spam" folder can be deleted after two weeks.

The mail service provides flexible configuration of filters - by sender, by subject of the message, etc. Incoming letters can be sorted, automatically forwarded to other mailboxes. To save traffic, the service settings have the ability to disable the display of images in messages.

If you use a mail client to check correspondence, then when downloading messages using the POP3 protocol, an additional mail header X-Spam-Flag: YES will be added to each spam message identified by the protection, and a phrase will be added to the Subject field. To undo the insertion of such a heading, go to the "Personal settings" section and select "Unmark in the subject line".

One of the shortest mail domain names is the mail address on the Ukrainian service i.ua. Incoming mail on this service is protected by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. Incoming mail is controlled by its own anti-spam filter. The developers of the postal service strongly recommend to "train" this filter, pointing it to messages with inappropriate content. After some time, the filter will be able to work on its own, making fewer and fewer mistakes in detecting junk mail.

The mail service works with the POP3 protocol. For some unknown reason, work with the alternative IMAP protocol is not provided, and the resource rules even indicate that such a possibility is not planned in the future. SMTP service is provided only to VIP users, for an additional fee.

To work with the web-based mail interface, you need to have the Flash 9 (or higher) component installed. If for some reason this is not possible, for normal operation it is necessary to enable the "turn off the extended file adding mode" item in the mail interface settings.

Received letters should not exceed 15 megabytes, and you can send a message not exceeding 10 megabytes. There is a restriction on i.ua servers aimed at fighting spammers. Therefore, even VIP users cannot send using of this service a large number of letters in a short period of time.

Mail on i.ua does not live very long - 90 days after there have been no calls to the mailbox, it stops receiving messages, and after the same amount of time the mailbox is completely deleted. If after 180 days there is no attempt to log in the user, his account will be canceled and his account will be available for other users to register. If you try to authorize in an "abandoned" mailbox, mail can be restored, however, letters deleted by the service by this time will be lost forever.

Conclusion

Providing free e-mail is one of the most common services on the Internet. Every second major portal today offers to create a free mailing address... However, there is no need to rush in this matter. The choice of an address for your e-mail should be approached carefully - sometimes the convenience of the web interface tools hides the unstable operation of the web service, the lack of support for the POP3 protocol or weak protection against spam. We hope that this test will allow you to avoid mistakes when choosing free mail, and you will not need to open a second and third mailbox just because the first one is littered with spam or does not accept messages.

Let's start with what I mean by medium business. I do not know the exact classification and have not looked or tested anywhere. It seems to me intuitively that this is from 10-15 users to 200-300. I will consider the segment up to 100 users, since almost all the time I work exclusively in this niche. The problems and needs of larger companies are not known to me for certain. Although I'm not sure that something will be fundamentally different from 100 people, I think the approaches will be the same, only the hardware is more powerful. Problems of load distribution and clustering here most likely will not arise yet.

We have a small company for several dozen people. We need a mail server. Despite the fact that technology has stepped forward a long time ago, providing a lot of all kinds of communication tools, email it is still firmly in its positions and is not going to concede them yet. At the same time, in such a small team, there are no big requirements for the mail server. More often than not, it is enough for the mail to simply work, without any special functional delights. Either a mail client and imap protocol, or a web interface will suffice. Well, if it is possible to set up an auto answer, do shared folders, a single address book, but you can live without it.

Among all the possible options for the mail service, I single out 3 fundamentally different approaches to implementing the necessary functionality:

1. Services based on free Google, Yandex or mail services.
2. Your mail server based on free software.
3. Exchange server from Microsoft.

Let us examine each of them in more detail.

Free mail from google, yandex and mail.ru

I'll make a couple of comments right away. I'm not sure if you can register corporate mail for free with Google now. All who registered before use it for free, and for new users only paid subscriptions... But this is not fundamental and does not directly relate to the topic of the article. If Google has become completely paid for business, then we will simply exclude it from our list. Yandex and Mail.ru are still definitely free. I myself administered mail domains in google apps and in Yandex. I didn't work with biz.mail.ru, only I know that something similar is implemented there. Somehow I don't like the company itself since the old days. Although now they seem to have turned to face the users, but Amigo is still alive and well, so they have not turned completely yet.

Consider the pluses of these mail services.

1. The main advantage is that a full-fledged mail is ready immediately after registration. There are no costs for buying hardware and setting up... A more or less advanced user who, according to the instructions on the site, will be able to connect a domain and create mailboxes is enough. And the mail can already be used.
2. Easy to administer and manage users, the web service provides all the necessary equipment for this. They are convenient and intuitive (although not always) clear.
3. Convenient and familiar web interface... Everything works quickly, from anywhere with the Internet and a browser. There is a good mobile application.
4. Wide functionalityready right after creating the box. Various filters, mail collectors, good anti-spam (from Google) and much more.

Like everything, I missed nothing. It would seem that the advantages are obvious and significant. But before drawing conclusions, consider the cons.

1. You do not control this mail. It doesn't belong to youis not on your servers. You don't know what's going on with her. If you have a very sensitive and private correspondence, then suspicions and doubts arise about the use of popular postal services. It may sound paranoid, but this is a real concern for users and business owners and should not be dismissed.
2. You are not immune from system failures and cannot prevent them in any way. And failures, although not often, do happen. Since the services are free, no one will guarantee you anything... And if some kind of force majeure happens and the data disappears, they will simply say sorry. If your own IT structure is not very reliable, the likelihood of technical problems on your personal server will probably be higher. But you can control this and theoretically you can build a system with a level of reliability that satisfies you.
3. Backup methods are not obvious and restoring mailboxes in such services. There are situations when all letters are deleted from the mailbox. Let's say you can save them in various ways, just by downloading, and then how to return them back to the box, keeping all the dates original?
4. There is no way to analyze incomprehensible situations. For example, you send a letter, but it does not arrive at the addressee. What to do? In the case of cloud mail, you will not do anything, since you do not have any tools to analyze the situation. Just try to send a letter from another mailbox. Sometimes a letter does not come to you, and you cannot understand why it is not there. And it can be trivial in an incorrectly configured filter. This is a common situation when there are many filters, plus if some other forwardings are configured. It can be difficult to understand the situation without access to server logs... And if there is a mail server log, then it immediately becomes clear why the letter is not sent, or what happened to it after receiving. You can probably find out if the remote server received your letter or not.
5. No simple ways restrict access to mailboxes, for example, only from local network office. Public service mailboxes are always available via the Internet. It is possible to solve this problem in google apps through authorization in third party services... In Yandex and mail, I have not seen an opportunity to implement such functionality.
6. You also need to understand that free cheese know where it happens... It is not completely clear how postal services use information received from users. Well, if only to show them relevant ads. I think not only for this.

When I first started working about 10 years ago, there was no question of which mail to use in the organization. All set up their mail servers and administer them. Free mail services did not provide any tools for managing mail at that time for business. When such tools began to appear, I thought that soon no one would need their mail servers, since they would no longer make sense. And all my torment (I do not like working with them) with mail servers will become meaningless.

I was given the opportunity to administer domains based on public mail services. After that, the above list of cons appeared. And for me personally, these disadvantages outweighed the pros, and now I still set up mail servers myself. Ultimately, it is more convenient and reliable when considered together the pros and cons of use and administration.

The biggest disadvantage I see is the lack of full-fledged mail logs and a good backup scheme. It is inconvenient to analyze problems without logs. It will not be possible to quickly and easily restore a deleted message to its original location, although for open source mail servers this is a simple matter.

Free software based mail server

Consider the advantages and disadvantages of your own mail server based on a free software... In principle, some paid ones can be included here, for example Kerio Mail Server, which is also often used. I think it can also be attributed here, since it provides similar functionality. I am considering all mail servers in aggregate, without highlighting individual representatives. Although in Linux, apart from postfix and exim, I personally have not seen anything in production. I always use postfix myself, as I'm used to it and know it well. Let's take a closer look at the advantages of such servers.

1. You have complete control over all informationthat comes by mail and is stored on your server. You can restrict access to mail at your discretion by various technical means. You can centrally configure the rules for deleting, for example, private information in letters, according to various criteria that you yourself can set.
2. The level of mail service availability depends only on you. With the right approach, you can provide the reliability you like system operation.
3. Flexible backup system. There are a lot of funds for its organization, including free ones. It all depends only on your needs, skills and capabilities. You can store various slices by dates, by mailboxes, by domains, organize any suitable scheme.
4. Almost unlimited functionality... Within reasonable limits, of course :) You can create mailboxes with the possibility of only local correspondence, you can centrally manage the reception and sending of mail, maintain your own white and black lists. You can configure various restrictions for mailboxes and domains. You can easily centrally manage duplicate mail of the required mailboxes, do all kinds of forwarding and much more.
5. All server monitoring tools are in your hands. You can deal with any incomprehensible situation, having on hand the logs of the mail server. This service is well logged. I almost never had any problems when it was not clear where the letter went. Most often, there are traces and we can definitely say what happened to the letter.

1. It is necessary buy or rent equipment to organize your mail server. In the case of a Linux server, the performance requirements will be small. I usually have enough virtual machines for 4 cores and 4 GB random access memory... Much more important is the disk subsystem. Here, the faster the disks, the better. Don't forget about backup. It also needs iron resources.
2. Setting up a full-fledged, multifunctional mail server requires at least average knowledge of linux system administration. That is, just an admin-enikey will not work here. Need a specialist with experience... He should have a decent salary. If there is no such admin on staff, I recommend hiring someone for a one-time setup job. Most often, after setting up, no special work on maintaining the server is required if you do not change the functionality. It is enough just to keep track of free disk space and manage mailboxes via the web panel.
3. Convenience of work through the web interface will be lower than free postal services. Whatever one may say, but the same gmail is implemented very conveniently. Quick search, filters, sorts, tags, etc. It's really convenient. I am very accustomed and cannot use anything else.

Such disadvantages of your mail service seem to me. The most significant for me is the last one. I myself am used to working with mail via the web. Mail clients I don't like to use it, although I have to. Web interfaces to free mail servers are far from gmail or Yandex in terms of convenience and speed, it's pointless to compare. And nevertheless, I believe that for an average organization this is the most optimal option.

Pros and cons of Microsoft Exchange Server

I don't have much experience in administering exchange. I once tested it long ago when I was deciding which mail servers I would work with. I installed and studied the functionality. Then I set up a mail server for the organization once. They wanted exactly exchange. There were no problems, I quickly set up according to numerous guides on the Internet. The threshold for entering the exchange mail server customizers is very low. Even an enikey can handle the basic functionality.

For medium-sized organizations, I consider common calendars to be really useful and difficult to replace functionality. And, of course, the convenience of integrating with AD, if any. And most often there is AD, since I cannot imagine administering a network for more than 20-30 people without Active Directory. I think that it makes no sense to save money here and you need to buy Microsoft Server.

Let's now look at the pros and cons of Microsoft Exchange Server. I warn you again, just in case. I am telling only my vision, there is little experience with the server, so I would like to receive comments on it myself in the comments in order to have a more adequate assessment of this system. Exchange pros:

1. Great functionality with relative ease of setup. Deploy a server with basic functionality for any admin. Moreover, this basic functionality may be more than that of any assembly under Linux.
2. Integration with Active Directory... You create a new user account and the mailbox is immediately ready for him. No special settings are needed if the user has Microsoft Outlook... The connection to the server is configured in a few mouse clicks.
3. Comfortable administration tools in the form of ready-made rigs Windows Server... Everything here is traditional for Microsoft solutions.

The cons of Exchange Server are the same as the pros for most Microsoft products:

1. Price, price and price again... Microsoft Exchange Server is expensive. It is necessary to count and figure out whether it will be justified to acquire it. To use all the built-in functionality, it will be necessary to buy a Microsoft Office edition with an outlook for each workplace. These are additional costs.
2. Good performance requires much more powerful iron, compared to Linux servers. And to support large mailboxes, for example, 50 gigabytes, you need very powerful hardware. Although such boxes for the same dovecot do not present any particular problems. In exchange, you will most likely use quotas to limit the maximum mailbox size.
3. For a backup, you will most likely have to also purchase decent hardware and paid software... Here I just assume, I really don't know what is needed for a convenient exchange backup. I know paid software from popular vendors. Perhaps there is something free.

My conclusion on Exchange Server is that it is good in almost everything, except for the price. If it was free, I would most likely use it. For quite objective reasons, this is impossible. Good and convenient software does not appear by itself. You need to create it, and on this you need to spend funds that you want to return with a profit.

As of today, given the cost of Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office, I do not use these Microsoft products. Few are willing to shell out the required amount for a mail server. I would like to take a closer look at Exchange in real conditions, at least 60-80 people, in order to evaluate this server more objectively. But so far such an opportunity has not presented itself.

Conclusion

Let me summarize my reasoning about a mail server for a small average organization. Although the conclusion, I think, is already clear. I myself prefer the second option I described - a mail server based on free software on linux. But I would not discount the other two options. Free mail from public services will be uniquely convenient for a very small team - for 10-15 people. It makes no sense to fence your server for such a number.

I would recommend using Exchange Server if you have it and you don't mind spending money on its purchase. The product is unambiguously convenient, functional and easy to configure and administer. In simple terms, you need to understand that this is conditional. The configurations can be very complex, but in this case I am considering the entry level.

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And the services of which postal services are better to use.

Choosing a mail service

To begin with, even such a simple matter as choosing a postal service should be approached responsibly, so that later you can simply send an e-mail in an elementary way, and not suffer for hours when faced with technical limitations that you cannot get away from.

How to use email

So what do you need to send email? And how to send mail by email? In order to use e-mail, you must

• have Internet access;
• the device with which mail will be sent (such a device can be personal Computer, mobile phone or tablet);
• registered mailbox.

Let's look at the most popular mail services on which you can get yourself mail, and also say a few words about some of the advantages, disadvantages and features of each mailer.

"Rambler"

It was once one of the most popular e-mail services, which today, alas, is practically "made to live". The service survives due to the monstrous amount of contextual embedded ads, which also affects the churn of users. Now mail is used only by inveterate oldfags who do not want to join the ranks of users of other "mailers".

"Postman" has a classic login form, which involves entering a password, login and choosing the type of mailbox.

An interesting feature is the need to enter captcha (characters from the picture) to send each letter. This is used to combat spam from Rambler mailboxes, but it gets annoying when you have to regularly correct letters and enter, as a result, a captcha.

Among the downsides is the limitation in the number of files attached to the letter - only one.

Gmail

The giant corporation has created, perhaps, one of the best free mailers. The size of the mailbox content has already exceeded the 15 GB mark, and Google is not going to stop there. The maximum size of files attached to a message is 20 MB. Not very many, but this "mailer" supports work with "Google" -documents, the size of which is not taken into account when sending a letter. Integrated social network, profiles and convenient mobile applications.

Login and password are used to enter the mailbox. The e-mail address itself acts as a login, while for other mail services the login is a combination of letters and numbers located before the "dog" icon.

Mail.ru mail

Confident "middling". It was once very popular due to the existing social network "My World", but now it is inferior to its more advanced comrades, although it is trying to regain leadership. "Mailer" has a classic login form and an interesting feature - to make text notes in a web notebook. Mail size is limited to 10 GB.

An interesting feature is the psvedo-ability to send letters with attachments of unlimited size. It happens as follows: no more than 25 MB is sent directly by mail, all the rest of the content is saved on the mail service - "[email protected]", a link to which is attached to the letter if its content does not fit into the standard 25 MB.

"Yandex Mail"

The product of the domestic company is not the least popular among postal services, especially in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. He has an unlimited mailbox size, at least in theory. The size of one letter cannot be more than 30 MB. As in the case of "mail" mail, everything above is packed into an archive and sent to the "Yandex" -disk.

Free and paid email

Consider the advantages of paid and the disadvantages of free mail.

You can send an email not only through free email, but also through paid postal services. The question arises: what is their fundamental difference?

Email (free) is different from paid email.

The first immediately noticeable advantage of paid email is the complete absence of advertising, which, unfortunately, many free services cannot boast. The same "Mail-mail" or "Google-mail" are simply full contextual advertising... However, if you do not pay attention to it, then the presence of advertising banners will not be a significant disadvantage for you.

The second advantage of a paid mail service is its reliability. However, in fact, no matter how the owners of paid "postal services" assure that their mail will never be disconnected, one cannot be one hundred percent sure of this. However, according to statistics, the servers of Yandex and Google, serving mail, are still subject to more frequent crashes, if only because they are used by a huge number of people.

Thirdly, paid mail receives dozens of times less spam than free mail.

Now let's turn to the advantages of free and the disadvantages of paid mail.

First, no matter how paradoxical it may sound, email addresses created using paid services are not always recognized when automatically sending letters from technical support, and it is also not always possible to send a letter to them from free mail.

Secondly, as a rule, a paid mail service does not have a mobile version and a version for a tablet, which means that you have to go to mail through a browser, which is not always convenient.

Third, you have to pay for paid mail. On average, the cost of an annual subscription to a paid mail service is 600-800 rubles. For a fee, you can connect additional packages services that open access to new functions or increase the size of the box.

What paid mail to start?

The leading position is occupied by the American "mailer" 1 & 1. It not only offers to start a paid e-mail, but also provides an opportunity to create your own domain, to which it will be linked. For example, you create a domain n-novgorod.com and link citizen mail to it. Your mailing address will look like [email protected], plus you have the option to create a website since you already have a domain. It is very convenient for organizing your business on the Internet. In addition, the "mailer" has a nice shell and a friendly interface, which means that in the process of using it you will hardly have a question about how to send mail by e-mail.

Sending photos by email

How to send a photo by email? There are two options for sending images:

• Email links to a photo hosted on a remote server. Mail services such as Google and Yandex are able to process a link to a photo and upload a photo to the body of the letter, that is, only the link is sent by mail, but the recipient of the letter, upon opening it, sees the finished image.
• Directly send a graphic image: the photo is attached to the letter as a regular attachment and sent to the addressee. It is important to keep in mind that all "mailers" have a limit on the size of messages sent. Yandex has the largest limit, but this plays a cruel joke on it, especially if you send photos not in the archive, but in a list. It happens that the service cannot cope with the traffic passing through it, and, as a result, mail starts to slow down and freeze terribly.

1. It is better to send photos in an archive.
2. Don't send large volumes of email graphic files, calculated in gigabytes of data.
3. It is best to upload photos to a dedicated server for storing graphic images and send the photo to the recipient by email as a link to the photo album.

Sending video by email

How do I send email with a video attachment? Now let's deal with this moment. As with photos, there are two ways to email a video:

• As an attachment (or archived if there are several videos). In this case, the recipient will be able to download the video either from the letter itself, or from a file hosting service, if the mailer has one.
• In the form of a link to a video posted on a video hosting site (for example, on YouTube). In this case, downloading the video requires a deeper knowledge of the computer.

1. Sending videos by email is not a great idea, but if this cannot be avoided, it is best to send no more than one video per email.
2. The size of attachments in a letter is always limited, so it's better to compress the video to a size of no more than 25-30 MB.
3. The best option for transmitting video over the Internet is uploading it to a special video hosting site, followed by sending a link to the downloaded video to the addressee. Remember that you can only upload videos that do not contain incitement to violence, pornographic content or other content prohibited by law.

Setting up mail for a custom domain requires some technical knowledge. Therefore, if you do not know what DNS and MX records are, it is better to ask someone who is familiar with these words to complete the setup. Or find companies that can help you with this. Oddly enough, some are ready to do it completely free of charge, including help in registering a domain name.

Hosting provider

Price: various options.

The most common service will be the one that any hosting provider will offer you. Usually it is called: "Post service" or "Mail". As a rule, the cost of such a service from a provider is about 100 rubles per month. Each hosting provider has its own characteristics of providing services, but they are common for all providers:

• providing addresses like [email protected];
• the size of each box from 25 MB (for a fee, the size can be increased);
• work with e-mail through the web interface;
• imap (pop3) and smtp access (for working with e-mail through email programs like Outlook or Thunderbird), sometimes for a fee;
• antivirus for email messages, sometimes for a fee.

Despite the not so wide possibilities, the big plus will be that all the necessary settings for the operation of e-mail have already been made by the provider.

Yandex.Mail for domain

Price: free.

The service offers mail for the domain, as well as DNS hosting (in the event that existing system domain management of your hosting provider does not suit you), "Yandex.Disk" of 10 GB for each user with the possibility of increasing the volume for additional money. Appearance mail and the list of services is completely similar to free mail from Yandex. 1000 mailboxes can be registered. By connecting the Yandex.Mail service for a domain, you will get the following main features:

• aliases (synonyms) of a mailbox (for example, your mailbox [email protected]but you can make the address [email protected], [email protected] and so on without registering individual mailboxes);
• alias for a domain (for this you need to add two or more domains);
• chat for a domain (works using the Jabber protocol, but requires configuring a domain SRV record);
• address book (list of contacts);
• DKIM signature (DomainKeys Identified Mail - digital signature of your domain so that letters do not end up in spam);
• the ability to organize mailings for all mailboxes of the domain;
• attaching files from Yandex.Disk;
• selection of the date and time of sending the mail message;
• customizable reminder in case of no response to a sent email;
• notification of receipt of the letter by the recipient;
• customizable filtering of e-mail messages (for example, messages from a specific recipient are automatically moved to a specific folder);
• letter templates;
• message labels;
• spam filter;
• to-do list;
• calendar timeline;
• access to mail via imap;
• two-factor authentication (in addition to the login and password, the system will ask additional codegenerated with a smartphone).

The service has no obvious disadvantages. If you find errors in its work, you can always contact a qualified technical support service that communicates with users in human language.

Mail.ru for business

Price: free.

Despite the name "for business", the service can be used by anyone who has his own personal domain

The service appeared much later and is probably the youngest on the market. However, due to the familiar interface and name, the service is actively recruiting users. For example, the li.ru service has transferred about 500 thousand mailboxes of its users to the Mail.ru for Business service.

By connecting your domain to the service, you get a standard set of Mail.ru mail services with the ability to add mailboxes for your domain. A total of 5,000 mailboxes can be added per domain. Each user will have access to a free 25 GB cloud for file storage, expandable for additional money. In the cloud, you can create and edit documents in MS Office formats. By connecting a custom domain for mail in Mail.ru for Business, you will get the following main features:

• unlimited mailbox for each user;
• aliases for a mailbox;
• alias for the domain;
• "Mail.ru Agent" for a domain (all mailbox users of your domain are automatically added to it);
• the address book;
• DKIM signature;
• import of all mail messages from your old mail;
• the ability to go to the mail at http://mail.ivanov.ru;
• attachment of files from the Mail.ru cloud or links to them in a letter;
• letter templates;
• spam filter;
• connecting other mailboxes;
• two-factor authentication;
• SMS notifications about incoming letters (not all operators are supported);
• various themes of the mailbox design;
• mobile application for access to mail;
• access to mail via imap.

Of the minuses, I would like to point out that advertising in the mailbox cannot be disabled through the settings. The easiest way to remove ads and keep the mailbox clean is to use ad blocker modules, for example.

Google Apps for Works

Price: $ 5 to $ 10 per user per month.

About three years ago, this service was free for ordinary users. Now it has remained free only for certain categories of users. For the rest, only the paid version is available. The service is focused on teamwork, and not for one person, and has extensive administration and settings. However, even one person has something to use. The service will be of interest to those who have never used the mail from Google - Gmail. Others will see a familiar interface. The number of mailboxes is limited by your budget.

Each user on the basic plan gets 30 GB of space in mail and Google Drive (1 TB if there are fewer than five users, and unlimited space otherwise, on the extended plan).

By connecting a custom domain for mail in Google Apps for Works, you will get the following main features:

• mailbox of unlimited or limited size for each user;
• aliases for a mailbox;
• alias for the domain;
• chat for a domain (all mailbox users of your domain are automatically added to it);
• DKIM signature;
• import of all mail messages from your old mail;
• the ability to go to the mail at http://mail.ivanov.ru;
• attaching links to files from Google Drive in an email;
• spell check letters before sending;
• translator of letters into other languages;
• spam filter;
• a tool for formatting (design) the text of an email message;
• autoresponder (will answer all incoming letters for you with a predefined phrase);
• connecting other mailboxes;
• customizable email message filtering;
• two-factor authentication;
• various themes of the mailbox design;
• mobile application for access to mail;
• access to mail via imap;
• cancellation of sending a letter (if you clicked on the "Send" button and change your mind);
• various additional capabilities from the laboratory (separate plug-in add-ons).

Google has established itself as reliable service (of course, there were several glitches in a couple of years), and, importantly, it is present on every modern smartphone. This means that there is no need to perform manual settings, it is enough to enter only a login (mailbox address) and a password to it. Everything else will be configured automatically.

Google Apps for Works is possible without entering payment details within 30 days.

I personally use this particular product.

Office 365 for business

Price: from 200 rubles per user per month.

Office 365 for business is much more than just mail. This is a whole set of tools for bringing business to the cloud and conducting business activities. The package includes many tariff plans (not all of them are available on the site), for the review I chose the Office 365 Business Premium tariff. However, there is an Exchange Online plan that is included with Office 365 Business Premium, but provides tools only for working with email and voicemail (but you cannot test it without a purchase).

I will not talk about all the options available and the cost. I will only note that you can purchase a subscription with the ability to install classic versions of applications office suite MS Office for Mac OS and Windows. In addition to mail, each user is provided with a 1 TB cloud disk. Total at the minimum tariff plan you can connect up to 300 users. A cloud version of the Office suite (Word, Excel, Power Point) and Skype for Business (HD video conferencing and some other features) will also be available. When creating teams, you can work on intranet sites. Of course, there is a calendar and tasks from the tools.

By connecting a custom email domain in Office 365 for business, you get the following key features:

• limited to 50 GB mailbox;
• aliases for a mailbox;
• alias for the domain;
• address book (including general);
• DKIM signature;
• import of all mail messages from your old mail;
• the ability to go to the mail at http://mail.ivanov.ru;
• attaching files from the cloud storage OneDrive;
• a tool for formatting (design) the text of an email message;
• delivery and read notifications;
• spam filter;
• autoresponder (will answer all incoming letters for you with a predefined phrase);
• customizable email message filtering;
• various themes of the mailbox design;
• mobile application for access to mail;
• access to mail via imap;
• access to mail via Exchange (not just access to mail, but much more);
• store for additional applications.

I recommend this service to those who are used to working in Outlook. In fact, Outlook is tailored for Exchange connections and works great with it. Personally, I used a similar plan from Office 365 for business for about a year and a half (then it was called differently) and did not have any problems with work. Once I had to use technical support services over the phone. The problem was resolved very quickly. The technical support for this product is one of the best on the market.

Also, do not forget that it is Microsoft that is the developer of very common products for office life (Word and Excel) and their online versions work perfectly - a great alternative to desktop versions of applications.

Yahoo Small Business

Price: $ 34.95 per year and $ 9.95 per month (Custom Mailbox and Business Email plans, respectively).

Yahoo is a very old service. One of the few services that still does not allow users to "communicate" with their mailbox using the imap protocol. In addition to the mail itself, Yahoo includes one domain (which can be purchased by connecting to their service) and one externally accessible web page. If you buy a Business Email plan, you will have an unlimited number of mailing addresses; in Custom Mailbox, you can get only one mailing address. A calendar is attached to the mail. By connecting a custom email domain to Yahoo Small Business, you get the following key features:

• unlimited mailbox;
• the address book;
• a tool for formatting (design) the text of an email message;
• autoresponder (will answer all incoming letters for you with a predefined phrase);
• customizable email message filtering;
• various themes of the mailbox design;
• spam filter;
• mobile application for access to mail;
• spell check letters before sending.

Despite the rather high price, mail capabilities are quite standard.

Zoho Mail for Business

Price: Multiple plans, from free to $ 10 per month per user.

Zoho is a very old service. It contains a large number of working tools. Some of them are free, and some (mainly aimed at sales) are paid.

Zoho Mail has integration with Zoho Docs (import from Google Drive), calendars and tasks.

Connecting a custom domain to Zoho Mail for Business, you will get the following main features:

• limited in size mailbox from 5 to 25 GB depending on the tariff plan;
• the address book;
• import of all mail messages from your old mail;
• attachment of files from cloud storage Zoho, Dropbox and Google Drive or links to them in the letter;
• customizable email message filtering;
• letter templates;
• delivery notifications;
• spell check letters;
• message labels;
• spam filter;
• a tool for formatting (design) the text of an email message;
• mobile application for access to mail;
• access to mail via map and active sync;
• answering machine;
• aliases for the mailbox.

These are the largest services that you should pay attention to in order to use your domain mail on them. If you know other options, write in the comments.