ASO alternative

Ambarishrh

DigitalOcean/Cloudways looks better!

thwr

DigitalOcean/Cloudways looks better!

I've just checked Cloudways offerings, but it doesn't seem like you are able to run your own mail server there. They don't even offer some shared mail hosting at all. Instead, they are pointing you to Rackspace where each mailbox is $1/mo.

So my question is: How do you manage your mail accounts? Plain Gmail?

stacksofplates

@thwr said in ASO alternative:

@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:

DigitalOcean/Cloudways looks better!

I've just checked Cloudways offerings, but it doesn't seem like you are able to run your own mail server there. They don't even offer some shared mail hosting at all. Instead, they are pointing you to Rackspace where each mailbox is $1/mo.

So my question is: How do you manage your mail accounts? Plain Gmail?

I switched to Zoho. It's free/cheap and you get a ton for the price.

coliver

@stacksofplates said in ASO alternative:

@thwr said in ASO alternative:

@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:

DigitalOcean/Cloudways looks better!

I've just checked Cloudways offerings, but it doesn't seem like you are able to run your own mail server there. They don't even offer some shared mail hosting at all. Instead, they are pointing you to Rackspace where each mailbox is $1/mo.

So my question is: How do you manage your mail accounts? Plain Gmail?

I switched to Zoho. It's free/cheap and you get a ton for the price.

I use Zoho as well for my mail.

Ambarishrh

I am still on my old Google apps free account!

thwr

Will take a look, but I want to stay within the EU Thx for mentioning Zoho @stacksofplates and @coliver

Ambarishrh

Anyone tried https://www.bitrix24.com/prices/ they have a free option with unlimited accounts.

You can select "show me the differences" to see whats not included with the free option.

https://i.imgur.com/geCAnqg.png

Also mentions what Free package best for
https://i.imgur.com/42OuGRc.png

stacksofplates

@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:

Anyone tried https://www.bitrix24.com/prices/ they have a free option with unlimited accounts.

You can select "show me the differences" to see whats not included with the free option.

https://i.imgur.com/geCAnqg.png

Also mentions what Free package best for
https://i.imgur.com/42OuGRc.png

I did. I didn't really like it

Ambarishrh

Would be interested to know your feedback in detail. What exactly did you not like about this?

stacksofplates

@Ambarishrh said in ASO alternative:

Would be interested to know your feedback in detail. What exactly did you not like about this?

So it's been a long time ha. I think the reason was when you add a domain for a corporate email, it's done through yandex.ru and you don't actually "check" the email through bitrix but it just links you to the yandex.ru page. I think. I'm using another domain I have to test it and see if what I remember is correct.

stacksofplates

So this was another issue I remember having before. When you change the MX records for your domain, there is a verify button in the Bitrix interface. I can click the verify button 1000 times and it doesn't ever re-check, just says last checked 6 hours ago. So I may get too tired of trying and give up, but here is a message that kind of confirms what I was remembering:

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IIRC you just get a message counter that shows how many unread emails you have. Then when you click the "message viewer" it opens the yandex webmail for you to check your mail. The whole point of me using the product was for email so that's why I stuck with Zoho.

stacksofplates

Ok I got the domain joined and as I remembered this is what happened. I added a mail account and when I went to open the mail account it took me to this page at passport.yandex.com: