| Email services are essential to any user out there | | | | create 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 to | | | | POP3 email accounts meaning that you can download |
| have an e-mail address that comes with the website | | | | your e-mail archive to your local computer and you |
| - why one cannot use a typical e-mail address | | | | should be able to work offline with them at any time. |
| registered with Yahoo! or Gmail to go with their | | | | If you enjoy reading your e-mails online however, |
| website. And then I considered the following | | | | you have exactly three choices that will serve your |
| comparison - if you have an expensive suit, and you | | | | needs: AtMail, SquirrelMail and Horde.o AtMail - In a |
| need to go to a reception, do you go in a pair of | | | | few 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 wearing | | | | favorite web browser or using a wireless device.o |
| sneakers for a wedding in combination with a very | | | | SquirrelMail - 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 to | | | | some of the strong points offered by SquirrelMail. |
| mention the fact that it is a lot easier to sort your | | | | The great thing about this particular app is that it is |
| e-mail based on business rather than having to work | | | | written in PHP4 ensuring maximum portability and |
| with your typical account and having to sort tons of | | | | efficiency.o Horde - Using Horde you can Read, send |
| emails. The purpose of business e-mail address (the | | | | and organize your emails not to mention that you can |
| one that comes with the website) has both practical | | | | use this particular app as an office tool since it |
| and ethical purposes, and I recommend it to just any | | | | contains calendars, contact manager, task manager |
| website owner out there (minus the case where you | | | | and notes. |
| own a blog, and you have no reason to pay for | | | | No matter if you choose to have your own offline |
| e-mail services just to receive silly comments | | | | e-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 the | | | | offers 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 you | | | | people hate spam, and this is why FatCow managed |
| need because very few hosting companies offer you | | | | to implement an efficient spam filter which will |
| unlimited mail accounts. This can be rather important | | | | protect your inbox from all those useless and |
| if your company is medium to large and you need to | | | | annoying e-mails. |