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Email Reseller Provider

Can anyone recommend a reliable email provider that I can set clients up with? I do not want to host their email on my server and ideally google apps with a control panel for managing multiple client accounts would be perfect, but they don't really provide this functionality.

Open to suggestions.

6 Answers

I'd recommend against Google if your clients send any private or privileged information to anyone.

However, Rackspace offer a dedicated email hosting solution and hosteddesktopuk.com have been recommended for my clients.

Worth checking out, but I couldn't make a direct recommendation. We host our client emails for security reasons.

Javier Correa
Javier Correa
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I'm looking for the same, waiting for suggestions. Thank You :)

Thanks Andrew, I will take a look.

It's my understanding that the Google Apps for business users is secure. I could be wrong though. If they were mining data from business emails I'm sure no business would ever sign up, but they seem to be getting lots of business.

Security against outside intrusion is one thing, but security against internal intrusion is another.

You have no security against Google reading through your email content. That's part of their business process to target adverts to your users.

This can have odd side effects when you see that clients are seeing adverts that relate to email content and then wonder why.

I'd suggest that if you have sensitive content, don't use Google's products. If you don't, don't worry about it :).

Most businesses are blissfully unaware of the privacy implications of using Google's products, but that doesn't mean the issue doesn't exist.

Outlook/Microsoft's recent marketing campaign will explain that in more detail.

@Gareth -

I'd suggest you go with Liquid Web, either their standard Linux Mail Hosting (for clients that just want email) or their Zimbra Hosting (for clients that want a full collaboration suite).