My company used USA.net for a while before we got too big for outsourced email to be cost-effective. They had excellent service, decent pricing and a killer web front end. We used the straight POP3/IMAP service but they have an outsourced Exchange offering too. Worth a look at least. http://www.usa.net -hp3 On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 01:38, Chris Schumann wrote: > > From: "David Phillips" <david at acz.org> > > Chris Schumann writes: > > > The client expects to have a total of less than ten clients. > > > > What specific needs do they have that require Outlook? We use Exchange at > > work for a company not much larger than that. Personally, I use POP3 to > > check my mail, but everyone else seems to like Outlook. It seems that > > people like it for three main reasons: > > > > 1) Server side mail storage > > 2) Shared address book > > 3) Calendar functions > > The points I listed earlier in this thread: > - Collaborative calendaring from anywhere > - Shared contacts > - Sync schedule and contacts to PDA > - Windows client > > I'd now add server storage of e-mail and another big item: low maintenance > costs. They know they will have to pay for something. Either they pay > someone to host some service and manage it, or they pay to have a server and > someone to manage it. > > With ten clients, it's not something that's going to be cost-effective for > me to set up (Exchange, Kolab, or otherwise) or manage, and I don't think I > want to get into that business, especially considering the link below offers > it for $15.95 for one user per month. > > > http://www.intermedia.net/hosting/exchange/ > > They look like a top-notch company and have prices right there. Impressive. > Two local companies that offer the service (also discussed earlier in the > thread) are USInternet and Agiliti. > > Thanks for the info, though, > Chris > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- Harry Penner <hpenner at acm.org> -- Harry Penner <hpenner at acm.org> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list