FatCow Email Services - Are They Really What You Need?

Email services are essential to any user out therecreate an e-mail account for each of your employees.
that is serious about their business. A long time ago,Another great thing about FatCow is that they offer
a friend came to me and asked why is it essential toPOP3 email accounts meaning that you can download
have an e-mail address that comes with the websiteyour e-mail archive to your local computer and you
- why one cannot use a typical e-mail addressshould be able to work offline with them at any time.
registered with Yahoo! or Gmail to go with theirIf you enjoy reading your e-mails online however,
website. And then I considered the followingyou have exactly three choices that will serve your
comparison - if you have an expensive suit, and youneeds: AtMail, SquirrelMail and Horde.o AtMail - In a
need to go to a reception, do you go in a pair offew words, complete and innovative user interface
fancy shoes or do you go wearing your sneakers?that allows you to access your e-mail via your
Using a third party e-mail address is just like wearingfavorite web browser or using a wireless device.o
sneakers for a wedding in combination with a verySquirrelMail - High functionality, MIME support, address
expensive suit. If you want to make an impression,book and last but not least folder manipulation are
you might as well consider the whole package. Not tosome of the strong points offered by SquirrelMail.
mention the fact that it is a lot easier to sort yourThe great thing about this particular app is that it is
e-mail based on business rather than having to workwritten in PHP4 ensuring maximum portability and
with your typical account and having to sort tons ofefficiency.o Horde - Using Horde you can Read, send
emails. The purpose of business e-mail address (theand organize your emails not to mention that you can
one that comes with the website) has both practicaluse this particular app as an office tool since it
and ethical purposes, and I recommend it to just anycontains calendars, contact manager, task manager
website owner out there (minus the case where youand notes.
own a blog, and you have no reason to pay forNo matter if you choose to have your own offline
e-mail services just to receive silly commentse-mail reader such as Thunderbird, or if you pick one
somewhere).of the three choices mentioned above, FatCow
Read the title again now, since we finished with theoffers a great deal when it comes to email services.
boring introduction about ethics and email addresses.One thing I did not mention until now is spam -
FatCow Email Services offers you exactly what youpeople hate spam, and this is why FatCow managed
need because very few hosting companies offer youto implement an efficient spam filter which will
unlimited mail accounts. This can be rather importantprotect your inbox from all those useless and
if your company is medium to large and you need toannoying e-mails.