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
> 
> 
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