december 13, 2008
So, I switched back to mail2web a little more than a month ago. Previous experiments and finds can be found here and here. So, after a month of usage, I am pretty happy with my experience with mail2web.
- There is little downtime with them. One night in November, the servers did not respond for a while. That caused for my phone to not sync. But, it was brief and service returned quickly. I did test their email support and in the middle of the night, they got back to me within the hour. That was pretty impressive.
- Their servers are usually pretty fast. Though, I would not call them blazingly fast. During peak hours in the day and at night, they sometimes get bogged down -- not to the point of being unusable, only to the point of being annoying. No complaints since the service is free.
- Push email is instantaneous with mail2web -- as it should be since it is "push" email. I don't carry my work pager with me while I am oncall anymore. I redirect the pages to my mail2web account, which then pushes them immediately to my phone. This saves me from looking like Batman with all things hanging off my belt. This is also useful since my wife and I can save on text messenging bills and overages -- we can both use mail2web to send instant "text" messages to each other -- and even get past the 140 character text limit.
- Because mail2web is a true Microsoft Exchange server, I get more than just contacts and calendar events pushed to me. I also get tasks and mail. The Google + Nuevasync solution only pushes contacts and calendar events.
- The web interface (OWA) while using Firefox is pretty basic -- and a bit fugly. But, the web interface while using IE6 is pretty similar to the desktop experience of Outlook. Which is fine with me. Either way, I don't have to install Outlook on my desktop to use the service -- which is a win in my book. And, I can use the service on my Windows, Linux or Macintosh notebooks. That is a huge win.
- I will just reiterate that the service mail2web live is completely free.
So, yea, I'm happy with mail2web live. It is Hosted Exchange for the cheapos like myself. There are ads on the service, but that is fine with me. If you have a device that supports Exchange synchronization, give mail2web a try.
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