Large Email hosting

[Seb7]

Here's something I haven’t previously looked at in great detail, but if I wanted to say start my hotmail/yahoo/Gmail service, whats the easiest/cheapest way of doing this?

I want users to be able to setup their own email account on my domain.

I've tried searching for 3rd party solutions, but not having much luck. I dont mind if the users themselves individually pay for this service.

Also, is their windows solution to this? I suppose Outlook web access is the solution, but what alternatives do I have?

[LifeinAsia]

1) Buy LOTS of servers.
2) Hire lots of staff members to deal with spam complaints.

No suggestions for the software. The mail server I use gets prohibitively expensive past thousands of users.

[Seb7]

Spamming. Yep. Thats probably why its not a good i idea.

[weeks]

What's your goal here?

I am assuming that your domain is example.com and you want people to have an address of [e-mail] as an email address? Why?

If the scale is under a couple of thousand and if it is for something like marketing your domain name (which is what I did), you can just set up a bunch of email accounts with whoever is hosting your domain, or just offer pass-through. (Assuming you're working with a major player.) It didn't really catch on for me, but it was a simple marketing trick just to offer it.

But, otherwise... LifeinAsia is right on the money. For gosh sake, why?

[creeking]

you may already know this, but microsoft and google offer free email for domain owners.


MS has the option of allowing new users to set up their own accounts.

[Seb7]

It was something I wanted to do sometime ago, but a friend recently ask me about doing the same thing.

He has a business where if clients email from his domain this would be an ideal marketing tool for his business.

creeking, I didnt know this, is this an option on gmail or something? as I cant see how to do this.

[rocker]

Not sure about gmail but you can easily set this up through a number of mail box providers ...."sent you a sticky so I don't violate WebmasterWorld TOS"