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Push email service from $3 a month

Hey guys im using an exchange push mail service from www.drmorley.com
They charge $3 a month for a 200meg mailbox with push email support. Whats even nicer is that when you send mail form for instance mine is [email protected] you attach an alias for instance [email protected] so mail sent from the drmorley account looks like its sent directly form your gmail account. I applied for it and i was all setup and go in less than 2 hours. It support push mail for pocket pc and blackberry support. Please have a look. He is looking at setting up cluster/load balancing support so even if one mail server goes down there will be a backup in place without any downtime.
Try them and leave some feedback. He even supplies a certificate for WM5 devices foc.

Hi, I thought I'd share a bit about my setup.
About my Hardware/Setup:
My servers are a pair of Dell 2950 PowerEdge server with 2Ghz Xeon Dual Core processors and 8GB of RAM. They've got about 500GB of storage in a RAID5 array with a spare hot swap drive just in case a drive starts acting up. I can pull it out and enable the spare within a hour ensure the data survives. A full backup is done daily and once a week the backup file gets offloaded to a remote datacenter just as a precaution. I also have backup MX servers that will archive 1GB of mail for up to 14 days in the event of a major outage. The servers themselves are colocated in a datacenter in Chicago where I live. I purchase colo space from SteadFast Networks which is located in an Equinix datacenter. The servers are hooked into a 100MB connection so bandwidth is not an issue.
I'm sorry, but I do not offer any SharePoint services or public folders. I didn't think I had the time or resources to adequately offer it so I chose not to offer it.
I have an economy plan for $3/month (paid yearly) that includes:
• 200MB Storage
• 10 aliases (ability to use your own domain)
• Outlook Anywhere, Activesync (Direct Push for Windows Mobile Devices), OWA
• POP3 & IMAP Access
• Antivirus Scanning (inbound & outbound) - Provided by Forefront Security for Exchange
• Entourage support for Macs
• iPhone Support (via IMAP)
The $5/month plan comes with a mediocre spam filter that I offer for free. It does an okay job, but if you really get a lot of spam (100+/day) then you'll want something better. I do pride myself on offering one of the best anti-spam solutions out there. After a lot of testing and research I found that no single spam filter could really do a fantastic job of filtering spam. So I went with a two tier approach. On the edge of my network I use Postini to filter the bulk spam that most filters catch easily. My users can administrate it themselves and whitelist/blacklist as they see fit. The second layer of protection is Cloudmark SPAM filter for Exchange. It's a server side solution and when used in conjunction with the Postini eliminates 99.9% of spam. The best part is that the false positive ratio with Cloudmark is nearly flawless. Ham will never be filtered as Spam--as a business class user you can't afford to miss an important client email. With Cloudmark spam filtering you don't have to worry about false positives.
As it relates to mobile phones (blackberries and windows mobile devices) the spam filtering is done BEFORE the mail hits your inbox to spam won't continually be sent to your mobile phone.
Here's how my pricing works. I had to change it recently to due changes in some of the licensing fees I have to pay to MSFT and Cloudmark.
• $5/Mailbox Includes:
• 1GB Storage
• unlimited aliases (for up to three domains)
• Antivirus Scanning (inbound & outbound) - Provided by Forefront Security for Exchange
• Postini SPAM Filter
• Outlook Anywhere, Activesync (Direct Push for Windows Mobile Devices), OWA
• POP3 & IMAP Access
• Entourage support for Macs
• iPhone Support (via IMAP)
Additional Services:
• Cloudmark Anti Spam Technology - $3/month to cover licensing fees
• Blackberry Support - $10month
• Additional Storage $1/month per extra GB of storage
I hope this answers some of your initial questions. Please let me know if you have any additional questions. I can be reached at frank at frankmorley dot com
I don't have a formal terms of service, but I reserve the right to disable your account if I feel you've been using my service to spam. I went through great pains to make sure email from my domain is accepted by other mail servers and if I feel you are jeopardizing things for others you will be banned immediately no questions asked. I will refund your money, but your account will be locked up and you will be permanently banned.

why not use mail2web.com ? it's FREE

i use mail2web too, is a good free service
push mail powa

how 'bout emoze? it's free and works with OWA prettttyyy good.

I really like the idea of your spam filtering thats probably my biggest complaint with my current setup but looking at your plans the only way to get both spam filtering is pretty much $8 a month correct?
Can you tell me what the OWA addy is just so I can see if my works websense blocks it or not?

I have a question about the push email. With this type of solution how does the push email work? Does it send a SMS msg to force checking of the account or is it connected all the time?
Just curious as my current solution stays connected all the time and is a drain on battery life.

mail2web ISN'T free if you want to use your own reply-to address.

Does Outlook everywhere support HTML email?

Mail2web is a nice service but does not provide HTML support cause they are still using Exchange 2003 SP2. I talked to a technical guy and there's no plan to upgrade to 2007 which support HTML. Only Executive plan is using Exchange 2007a nd in this case you have to pay!
Otherwise, the live2web (Free service) is working fine but without HTML read format.
Cheers!
papafred said:
i use mail2web too, is a good free service
push mail powa
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epimazzo said:
Mail2web is a nice service but does not provide HTML support cause they are still using Exchange 2003 SP2. I talked to a technical guy and there's no plan to upgrade to 2007 which support HTML. Only Executive plan is using Exchange 2007a nd in this case you have to pay!
Otherwise, the live2web (Free service) is working fine but without HTML read format.
Cheers!
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Look here : http://www.exchangemailhosting.com
Unlimited domain alias, unlimited e-mail alias , unlimited storage and fully Exchange 2007:
This mean OWA,ActiveSyncPush,OutlookAnywhere, HTML support etc etc
Cost around 9$ per month

MrDSL said:
I really like the idea of your spam filtering thats probably my biggest complaint with my current setup but looking at your plans the only way to get both spam filtering is pretty much $8 a month correct?
Can you tell me what the OWA addy is just so I can see if my works websense blocks it or not?
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mail2web has a spam filter.

Everyone has a spam filter..
Anyways, yes mail2web is free but you get mail2web at the end of your address, this is no go for some people.
His $3 a month plan is right up my alley, that is a perfect plan for a user such as myself.

nahguam said:
mail2web has a spam filter.
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They all have spam filters but I need a real one and his sounds pretty good..

MrDSL said:
They all have spam filters but I need a real one and his sounds pretty good..
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horses for courses... I actually asked mail2web to disable it because it kept blocking legitimate emails. I don't get very much spam at all though (maybe 2-3 per month) so it's fine.

nahguam said:
horses for courses... I actually asked mail2web to disable it because it kept blocking legitimate emails. I don't get very much spam at all though (maybe 2-3 per month) so it's fine.
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Lucky you I get that per hour easy..

Sounds like a nice deal @ $3 bucks a month..... I have mail2web, but it doesn't support HTML. So I quit using it. I just forward my everything to my gmail and have my phone check every 10min. But for $3 I think it's a steal.
Thanks for the great offer!
P.S. Your server does support HTML? How about outlook calendar? Please let me know.
Chris

Is there a link for the $3/month plan? All I see is the $5 and the $13. I'm currently using mail2web and the aliases and outlook 2007 is making me think about switching

How does the Exchange Activesync affect battery life? Do you notice a big change?

MrDSL said:
Lucky you I get that per hour easy..
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Try 3-4k a day....
I spent two years researching and testing different spam filters. For those of you than manage your own mail servers Cloudmark offers some of the best protection out there and their false positive ratio is nearly flawless. Worth every penny if you ask me.

I don't want to receive emails out of office hour and weekends

Hello all
Can any one help me. I've been given an office work WM6.1 mobile (touch pro 2) and it bugs me that I can't stop receiving spam emails at early hour of the morning. My business isn't larger enough to have an Exchange server which I know would be able to solve the problems.
Does anyone know of a app that I can use to choose when I pull for email, so I can set it just to work 9 to 5 / monday to friday?
Or if i've totally missed this option some where on my device... lol
Thanks again in advance.
Kugliim

Sorry, not sure if this helps but it's a IMAP emails system that works through a Kerio client.
Thanks again in advance
Kugliim

Not sure it will do what you want as it is a 3rd party service looking at your mail file and redirecting to your PPC but it might be worth a shot - Seven beta. That certainly has the option to define nights and weekends so that no mail is delivered.

You should be able to use the schedule function built into active sync to change this. I have mine set to instant (as its exchange) during 8am to 10pm and manual after that.
I don't have an IMAP/POP account but I can't see any reason why you should not be able to do that.....
(It should be in Active Sync-> Schedule)

kugliim said:
Hello all
Can any one help me. I've been given an office work WM6.1 mobile (touch pro 2) and it bugs me that I can't stop receiving spam emails at early hour of the morning. My business isn't larger enough to have an Exchange server which I know would be able to solve the problems.
Does anyone know of a app that I can use to choose when I pull for email, so I can set it just to work 9 to 5 / monday to friday?
Or if i've totally missed this option some where on my device... lol
Thanks again in advance.
Kugliim
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Pocketoutlook it self has no sheduler( when to start when to stop) for POP/IMAP build in. But there is a freeware http://gudensoft.com/ that you can download. I could not find th link but there was thread in development section about that software.
Furthermore..If your company allow it.. have you consider using Gmail pushmail (FREE) ..Gmai has the best spam filter

thanks for this.
I have my own personal email on gmail (which is great) however we now have our own hosted email at work. Someone in the office had a virus which must have sent out their address list and all i get is penis enlargement and watch emails.
I've set up a rule to delete ones with certain words but some get through. I had 34 spam emails last night from the time a fell asleep to waking up.
Will try out this links... thanks again

Nice one Bulldog. I had my first pleasants night sleep last night.

kugliim said:
Nice one Bulldog. I had my first pleasants night sleep last night.
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Cheers Mate

Advice sought for push mail hosting with spam filtering

OK, it's about time that I reviewed my email hosting options, I am currently paying $10 a month to exchangemymail.com for exchange 2k3 hosting (200MB mailbox). The main reason I went with that company was at the time they were the only ones I could find that offered postini filtered email accounts for one user only (I use it for my personal phone not just buisiness).
Top notch spam filtering is my #1 priority as I have had evilc.com and the [email protected] email address for nigh on 20 years now so I get a *lot* of spam.
However, since I originally took out the account, google bought postini, and now it seems that you can pay google $6 a year for postini filtering and bolt it onto any email account (You need a domain, which I have).
I am not unhappy with exchangemymail.com's service at all, but I think I can maybe get a better deal now.
So... looking for input on the subject.
Here are some points worth noting:
I currently use windows mobile, but I am maybe getting an android phone too soon, so a system that works well on both would be nice.
I use the same account on my desktop as my phone and I will not change this - it has to be as good a desktop solution as it is a phone solution.
Unification of email / contacts / tasks etc and OTA synching of these is vital. With my current system, I can enter a contact into outlook, pick up my (untethered) phone and the contact will be in there within seconds. I want to keep this.
I want the push email to be as real-time as possible. None of this every 5 or 10 minutes rubbish. I hold conversations via email, so it needs to be fast.
I am not hugely happy with the desktop exchange solution, it takes ~2-3 mins to load up outlook, and I have to enter my password too. However, I am not a huge fan of web interfaces for email / contacts etc.
I suppose it doesnt have to be postini spam filtering, but it needs to be really, really good.
Not looking for super cheap / free solutions from tiny outfits. I want to sleep sound at night knowing that my data is safe. (Yes I know about the google / sidekick fiasco but that isn't the norm for google)
I am in the UK, so hosting in places where the exchange rate is favourable makes sense

What are some good SIP providers?

So with Gingerbread incorporating SIP I was curious if anyone had any preferences in SIP providers.
I've tried sipgate, which seems to work pretty well and i bought a gizmo5 account from ebay, but i don't think they are letting you purchase credits. I tried to put money on the account, but it's been pending for quite some time now and there is no way to contact anyone.
Any other preferences that seem to work well?

Sipgate works, and they gave me 60 minutes on a free account to work with.
Didn't u get the 60 minutes?
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bosewicht said:
So with Gingerbread incorporating SIP I was curious if anyone had any preferences in SIP providers.
I've tried sipgate, which seems to work pretty well and i bought a gizmo5 account from ebay, but i don't think they are letting you purchase credits. I tried to put money on the account, but it's been pending for quite some time now and there is no way to contact anyone.
Any other preferences that seem to work well?
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Check the gizmo5 forums - you aren't alone there. One post is speculating on how they are no longer adding credit pending an integration with google voice.

mightytonbiggie said:
Sipgate works, and they gave me 60 minutes on a free account to work with.
Didn't u get the 60 minutes?
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I got the 60 minutes, but just looking for other good inexpensive providers or what other people may be using.
@krohnjw
Yeah i seen that after i tried to add credits

I added 10$ worth of credit to my gizmo5 account on Saturday and it finally showed up this morning just wait. If you read their faqs it shows they ask for 12 business hours before they will update your account.

Haha, i just checked and i now have 10 dollars there as well. Maybe they have one person that works one day a week to approve credits

Haha, same here - I paid $10 on Dec 19 and finally just got credited today!

Free sip providers
Here are some FREE sip providers:
Whistlephone-dot-com Android app and available sip credentials and DID
voipmyway-dot-com deal changes daily sip creds available free did
zipring-dot-com beta program??
nettalk-dot-com/smartphone android app for gsm/wifi

I'm using Sipgate completely free to place AND receive calls -not using up/buying any minutes/credits. I'm using it with Google Voice AND the "Google Voice Callback FREE" app.... thus it's 100% FREE
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10078413#post10078413

I just posted a whole comparison chart of different SIP providers here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=967115

I looked into a few providers and didn't like that fact you need to buy credit to make outgoing calls.
I did also setup the work around using sipgate to make free outgoing calls. It wasn't as tightly integrated as I liked so I kept working.
My conclusion was magicjack is the way to go. You know that commerical you see on tv, free phone calls for $25 a year. You can use software to get your sip credentials from the box then use them anywhere.
(link)
Then just plug your sip info into the native calling app and your done. $25 a year for unlimited calling.

Free Alternative to DeskSMS

DeskSMS was exactly what I was looking for, but the free trial is over and they want year fees.. Is there a free alternative to DeskSMS that will do the same thing?

Hello you can use "mightytext"
have fun ;-)

easy android sms or mighty text although i would use with caution at least with desksms we knew it was coming from cwm (trustworthy imo) texts are sensitive data you dont want any app/site reading and sending them

I use Google Voice which among other things allows you to SMS from a desktop browser.

Google Voice, as far as I know, don't let you text and receive text from your personal mobile number right? That's what I liked about DeskSMS. A one time price would've been okay but to pay yearly? That's not good..

It does. Your carrier has to support integration with GV, iirc. With sprint, GV offered to make my actual phone number the GV number. So when I text from the browser it is from my mobile number.
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What about Go SMS ? It's a alternative to decksms and can send SMS to other people . And there are alot of themes for this app .

I really like handcent and its free as well.

Subscriber to DeskSMS
When i first found the app i thought it was such an amazing thing. I purchased my subscription well before my initial free period was over. I tell you I do not regret it at all. Texts from people are automatically backed up in my Gmail account. If i need to find a text someone sent i just log into Gmail and search in:chats for the name or number or a snippet of what i'm looking for. The features, convenience, and how well it's built is worth the investment.

It depends on which feature you really need...to text from my pc I use AirDroid that is free and does the work gratly!

mapheG2 said:
DeskSMS was exactly what I was looking for, but the free trial is over and they want year fees.. Is there a free alternative to DeskSMS that will do the same thing?
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It is $5 per year man... That is peanuts for the service you are getting. Regarding free apps to do that, i'm with the other ppl, nothing is free. They have to be getting something from you. Always my mentality when downloading free apps.
Something to think about.

I'm in the same boat, I have a few more days of DeskSMS access and I like the dark skin as well, but I actually dislike DeskSMS mainly because I'm not seeing both sides of the conversation sync in GMail (only received syncs) and I still need to figure out how to make synced SMS's in GMail sync as read. Although I do like the quick access button that doesn't force you to open the application in a dedicated tab, but if you do want a dedicated tab the functionality is there I just never see myself using it. Then again the quick access button is very noticeably laggy.
I also use GVoice for business use and I prefer keeping my carrier's phone number for personal use. Problem is I can't use my carrier's phone number to text from GVoice unless I have GVoice take over my carrier's phone number.
Are there any work arounds I've overlooked? I basically use DeskSMS to text from my PC without having to pickup my phone constantly.

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phaberest said:
It depends on which feature you really need...to text from my pc I use AirDroid that is free and does the work gratly!
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I also use Airdroid sometimes, and it is good for messaging and for uploading smaller files to my phone. I tried using other apps (I forgot which ones unfortunately) to text from my Mac but I still find DeskSMS to be the best. It sends messages right to my Trillian (or AIM but it lags) and it typically works. Sometimes it stops and you gotta do a little tinkering to figure out why it isn't working, but for the most part I haven't found anything that beats it (especially when I'm at work and don't want my boss to see me texting).
I paid for the year, I didn't even realize it was a trial at first but I happily paid the small fee to keep using it. I've only paid for a few apps in my lifetime (Call Control and Titanium Backup basically), but it does a lot of good things for me and it was worth it.

Ci2e said:
I'm in the same boat, I have a few more days of DeskSMS access and I like the dark skin as well, but I actually dislike DeskSMS mainly because I'm not seeing both sides of the conversation sync in GMail (only received syncs) and I still need to figure out how to make synced SMS's in GMail sync as read. Although I do like the quick access button that doesn't force you to open the application in a dedicated tab, but if you do want a dedicated tab the functionality is there I just never see myself using it. Then again the quick access button is very noticeably laggy.
I also use GVoice for business use and I prefer keeping my carrier's phone number for personal use. Problem is I can't use my carrier's phone number to text from GVoice unless I have GVoice take over my carrier's phone number.
Are there any work arounds I've overlooked? I basically use DeskSMS to text from my PC without having to pickup my phone constantly.
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I am the dev for an SMS/MMS forwarding app called PhoneLeash. Its not free but its a one-time fee. PhoneLeash forwards to email or to a second phone (via SMS). It forwards both incoming and outgoing texts so you get a nice threaded view in GMail (for instance). And you can reply via email (or the second phone). It has some other phone locating features as well. Perhaps y'all will take a look!
PVS

Had to switch also
I kept having problems since I paid for it.
I kept getting the error: {"multicast_id":6603055600577454525,"success":0,"failure":1,"canonical_ids":0,"results":[{"error":"InvalidRegistration"}]}
So I chalk it up to, I paid money money for something useless. I still have 263 days left. So, for 102 days I have had no one help me with the issue so I left DeskSMS. I doubt I will get a refund either.

Alternative to DeskSMS: MooMle
mapheG2 said:
DeskSMS was exactly what I was looking for, but the free trial is over and they want year fees.. Is there a free alternative to DeskSMS that will do the same thing?
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Hey why don't you try MooMle, it's a brand new app, it's free and it does work!!!
I downloaded it yesterday and I'm loving it!