Hi,
I'm looking for suggestions for an email host to suggest to someone in my family who's trying to get away from Gmail. I know all the regular companies discussed here, but I can't seem to single one out from that lot that meets
all the following criteria, so I'm open to other suggestions:
- Main focus on email hosting, not webhosting or something else.
- Support for accounts on their own .com or .net domain
- Strong IMAP support
- Good, responsive technical support. With responsive I mean tickets are answered within a matter of hours, not days. No layered support.
- Likely to be around for a long time. Having been around a long time already is a plus, but not required.
- Privacy-oriented, or at least privacy-conscious.
- A history of actually keeping the service up-to-date and improving it, not just talking about it and making empty promises.
- Simple, yet functional, non-proprietary webmail interface. Roundcube or Squirrelmail will do the job just fine.
Cost is not an issue, so suggest anyone that comes to mind. I know some of the items above are vague and perhaps contentious, but it's the best I could do.