Which Business Email Client?

[The Spartan]

Hi everyone

Just looking at setting up the various bits and pieces for the company and wondered what the established members use for their business in terms of email clients. I did a search and it seems there are a few options like:

Google apps for business
Zoho
Outlook
Thunderbird

But I'm interested to hear what experiences people have had with these or other email clients.

Thanks

[SimonMac]

I use Outlook as part of Office for Mac, rock solid and bullet proof

[The Spartan]

I use Outlook as part of Office for Mac, rock solid and bullet proof

Is that Office 365 or do you use Exchange Online?

[chef]

Outlook for Mac client using exchange hosted via 1&1 internet

its never failed me yet

[SimonMac]

Is that Office 365 or do you use Exchange Online?

I have my email hosted with Vidahost, IMAP blah blah blah into my Echange Client

[quackhandle]

Created a new hotmail/outlook account and whilst Outlook.com isn't that good, I do like the fact you can link accounts together.

qh

[kingcook]

Hi everyone

Just looking at setting up the various bits and pieces for the company and wondered what the established members use for their business in terms of email clients. I did a search and it seems there are a few options like:

Google apps for business
Zoho
Outlook
Thunderbird

But I'm interested to hear what experiences people have had with these or other email clients.

Thanks

I use Google Apps, very good. Can access from anywhere and it's the familiar Gmail interface, and there's a Gmail client for my phone (Andriod).

Never heard of Zoho.

Outlook/Thunderbird - I don't like having to install stuff like that, what if I want to access emails while I'm abroad on hols in an internet cafe?

[Willapp]

+1 for Office 365.

I use it for my contracting and also host some email accounts as part of my plan B and they all go through Office 365. Easy setup and I think it's really well priced for what is basically MS Exchange - something like £4 per mailbox a month - and you get email sync everywhere, works on my Android phone, shared calendars etc. the works.

I know things like Google Mail are free and pretty decent, but for some reason there's something reassuring about paying for a mail service so I don't feel like my emails are being harvested for advertisers and there's at least some kind of baseline service level you can expect. Google could pull their mail product tomorrow and then what happens to all your data? (Obviously this is never going to happen, but still...)

[d000hg]

I use Google Apps. I used to have it synced with Outlook but I stopped using it as the online version improved.

I know things like Google Mail are free and pretty decent, but for some reason there's something reassuring about paying for a mail service so I don't feel like my emails are being harvested for advertisers and there's at least some kind of baseline service level you can expect. Google could pull their mail product tomorrow and then what happens to all your data? (Obviously this is never going to happen, but still...)

Hence using Google Apps, which has business and even enterprise plans - they are after government and education contracts so are not about to turn it off.

[Willapp]

Hence using Google Apps, which has business and even enterprise plans - they are after government and education contracts so are not about to turn it off.

Yeah that's true, I forget they do paid-for versions now. Still I've never truly embraced the Google platform and only have a Google account as a by-product of owning an Android device. Not that I'm anti-Google by any means, but professionally I guess I've 'grown up' with Outlook for email and there's just no incentive to move away from it while it does the job I need.