Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts

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Author: Chris Dennis
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Big IMAP accounts
On 10/25/2011 10:21 PM, Vic wrote:
>
>> Can anyone suggest or recommend an outfit that provides an IMAP service
>> with lots of room? i.e. multiple mailboxes that can each store
>> something of the order of 20GB of email (with big attachments).
>
> As Tim said, you should do this yourself. A commercial provider is likely
> to be expensive.
>
>> The companies I've looked at so far limit mailboxes to about 2GB.
>
> That's quite reasonable, IMO, for email. If you're looking at 20GB each,
> might I suggest you consider whether or not email is really the right
> mechanism for moving this data around?


Yes, that's what they (a small architecture practice) do -- they send a
lot of CAD files to and from clients, and want to use IMAP to allow
access from laptops etc.

The 'do it yourself' option that a few people have mentioned makes sense
though -- I'll look into a VPS with BitFolk or ByteMark.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK


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