What are the most important features in an email service? Add Answer

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High availability

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Ability to use the email client of your choice

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IMAP

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No delays

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Highly customizable spam detection

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Vast amounts of storage

Google's evil scheme to take over the Internet marches onward.

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Spam detection that "just works" without manual tweaking

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Slick webmail interface

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No legitimate email detected as spam

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Hosted Exchange (or similiar) for my iPhone

Affordable exchange hosting so my contacts, calenders, and email can all sync together via Outlook, Web Access, or iPhone.

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Secure mail access.

I would strongly advise offering reliable SSL for POP3, IMAP and SMTP. Even though most e-mail goes in the clear it would be useful to lead the pack with the ability to securely send and receive e-mail. In addition offer the ability to have your servers do SSL SMTP between e-mail servers.

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Server-side content-processing

For the purpose of placing messages in server-side (IMAP) folders as they arrive. You may also want to "pipe" certain messages to a script, or reject some automatically. Examples include Sieve and procmail. Modwest currently supports Sieve and now that there's a Thunderbird extension to manage... [show more]

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mail protector

Best spam protection currently available

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That it adheres to the Parkerian Hexad

and is Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious :)

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