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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by bhauer on Thursday March 05, 2015 @11:23AM (#9151678)
Which ironically is the reason I most often hear from Gmail advocates/apologists for why they advocate Gmail over running your own e-mail server.

I don't disagree. E-mail is a mess. Still, on the whole, for any person or organization with modest technical chops, I feel the freedom and decentralization (which is a positive for the entire ecosystem) is reason alone for retaining control by self-hosting.

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 05, 2015 @12:29PM (#9152258)
It's all about cost/benefit analysis. Maintaining an e-mail server and not getting overwhelmed by spam is hard; making sure you your e-mails will be received is even harder. Most of small businesses or organizations simply don't have resources to do that, if you count in the value lost when business e-mails get flagged as spam.

Decentralization is cool and all, but until we have some kind of self-contained, easy to deploy and maintain solution for e-mail servers, it's hard to me to recommend anything other than GMail to people - especially that typical small company or organization has a lifespan that's shorter than Google, so they don't get any important benefit from decentralization.

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by danieldk on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:27PM (#9152766)
it's hard to me to recommend anything other than GMail to people

There are other companies that offer e-mail services, without the embrace, expand, and extinguish strategy that Google seems to follow these days.

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 05, 2015 @01:34PM (#9152814)
I haven't checked the new Outlook recently; maybe it's good. But all others that I know offer subpar service and honestly, look like crap. UX is important. For example, I cringe whenever someone makes me to use Roundcube-based webmail.
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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by larrymcp on Thursday March 05, 2015 @02:20PM (#9153173)
Yeah Roundcube's look definitely needs some help. Last year I did choose Roundcube for our webmail, but I spent several days altering its appearance so that it would look semi-professional.

I started with their new theme called "Larry" and then corrected the fonts, colors, graphics, and certain element sizing decisions.

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Re:Google seems to have broken email forwarding by danieldk on Thursday March 05, 2015 @02:15PM (#9153132)
Fastmail has a nice UI, is fast, contributes to the open source Cyrus IMAP service (among other projects) and has business accounts.
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