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[Hicalibersigns]

www.gmail.com since 05....Never looked back.

Another vote for Gmail. Google owns Postini, and it is great, and included with your paid gmail subscription. This works very well.

 

[jono91]

I use google apps, its basically gmail but with your own domain. Been using it for years now, wouldn't consider anything else.

 

[Custom_Grafx]

I have no idea what happens when you go over your limit with a gmail account, but I would defn' look into somehow pulling some of your old stuff (if not all of it) off of gmail and archiving it in some way.

I use ^ the same method here. Gmail with own domain. I use gmail desktop app, plus I use TB to download all sent and received msgs. You should always have a local copy of all your gmail. I had around 4gb... yes, downloaded them all. Took a couple of days but well worth it, and yep, it gets backed up every day too. If google ever has issues, I can still access all my messages. If my computer has issues, I can take my backup to my laptop and access on TB there...

So then do you have to buy your own server?...Right now I have almost 8 gigs, 31,500 messages on gmail....

You don't need to buy your own server. You just set up TB/gmail to download all your gmail messages. To make mine more manageable, I split up into 2 folders (one for each year as I've only been using gmail for 2 years). I recall having problems when trying to download the whole 2 years for some reason.

 

[GB2]

I knew there were going to be many options and variations, as soon as I decipher all the acronyms and tech speak, I'll be looking to take some advice from here to develop a better system.