cPanel includes three webmail interfaces

[Alan B]

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[Tony]

Setting email accounts on the server is just too much work for me, so I don't encourage it. I have one guy that really wanted one, so I just set up a fake forwarding email for him at Gmail. I'm not sure how I did that exactly as it was a few years ago. I must have gotten the fall-through initial confirmation email and forwarded that to him.

[jerrybyers]

What is difficult about setting up email accounts?

[Tony]

Oh, I'm not sure there's anything too difficult in setting one up, but if I gave you a list of 1000 do you want to get on that before lunch? How do you keep track of who's still with the organization? Then there's the total quantity of mail allowed per account - on our shared hosting I sure don't want a bunch of people competing with my forum for that limit. Then there's tech support; I just don't want to have to deal with users that think there's something wrong, whether there is or not.

It may have made sense to do this 20 years ago. But these days I see it as way more trouble than it's worth. Maybe if people were willing to pay for these accounts my answer would be different, but of course they all expect free accounts.

[jerrybyers]

I guess I'm coming into this thread late and missed the discussion about email management. In your previous post, you only mentioned one email account. I'm not sure what you gain by using a Gmail account that you can't do on your server. You can make things easier by going to Google Apps, but they have recently scaled it back to 10 free accounts. If you need a 1000 accounts, then we are really talking about something more robust like Exchange. So, I guess I'm missing your point.

[Tony]

I suppose it depends on your needs. I said only one guy ever really bugged me about an email account. I was giving you an example of what might happen if you offered free email accounts and a thousand people decided to take you up on it. Presumably your needs are somewhere in the middle. Tell us about it. What type of hosting do you have and how many email accounts do you manage on it? What types of pros and cons do you see?

[Alan B]

I create mail accounts for my hosting clients. I don't give out free mail accounts (other than to friends/family). My clients pay me for hosting and for mail.