Comments on: How to save spans of cash on email

By: Alissa Pfieffer

Alissa Pfieffer — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:17:11 +0000

Another good article you post here.I m waiting for others to share it with my friends.

By: Rylee Di ninno

Rylee Di ninno — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:40:26 +0000

Your blog is a very good blog. Thanx for all your posts. I hope you ll post more soon. Regards.

By: aguen

aguen — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:53:21 +0000

why is there no adiko please send email list to me via email. thanks
regards
aguen inc

By: James

James — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:41:27 +0000

Thanks Fred for a great eye-opening article! I have a gmail account, and an mweb account for business. I would like to obviously convert this account to gmail…unfortunately I’m not tech savvy. Would you guys be able to help with this or possible point me in the right direction?

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:47:18 +0000

David – you need to dump Mweb and move to Gmail!

By: David

David — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:23:08 +0000

I gets lots of emails every day…. I like to have them on my Blackberry AND in my outlook.

I am however getting tired of having to manage the emails on the BB and my outlook (ie. delete them twice, “read” them twice).

Is there any solution. MWeb’s mail forwarding doesnt work that well, I don think.

Does MWEB offer IMAP?

Any suggestions?
Thanks

By: Ideate - Small Business in South Africa

Ideate - Small Business in South Africa — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:47:59 +0000

[...] wrote a while back about how moving to Gmail will save you money, but I’m writing about this again because I [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:43:26 +0000

I agree that Gmail is the greatest thing since sliced bread, BUT getting a guy’s business card I make the following assumptions:

If it’s XYZ@mweb or telkom – then I know he’s ignorant and knows nothing about the internet and is generally not a prudent business man becuase he fails to research alternatives to being ripped off.

If it’s XYZ@gmail.com – I can respect him for having the know how to use what can only be described as the best free email service available.

If it’s XYZ@hotmail or yahoo – then I know that not only is he ignorant about using the best option but he’s also not making enough money to get ripped off by Telkom or MWeb.

I agree that people are being sadly ripped off when it comes to email accounts, and that they feel it’s a necessary evil to endure to remain professional. But let me tell you people – there are alternatives out there.
I’m not trying to use this as a medium to punt my own business but just know that with a little time researching domain hosting on google you’ll find plenty companies (like mine – OK a little punting) that offer domain hosting for your emails at a more than reasonable cost.

All it takes is time to actually find out what you’re paying for and if there are alternatives that you could use.

Down with Mweb and Telkom charging ridiculous rates for something that’s costing them next to nothing!

And if you’re using Yahoo, or Hotmail then please at the very least switch to gmail.

By: Chris Beech

Chris Beech — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:16:33 +0000

And google apps takes it even further: https://www.google.com/a/

By: Duncan Drennan

Duncan Drennan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:03:51 +0000

There is just one reason (which is actually two things, but one reason) that I still haven’t switched my company emails across to Gmail, and that is encrypted emails. I would prefer to have IMAP access to Gmail (only POP last time I checked – which was recently), then I could use Thunderbird for all my encrypted emails.

The alternative is to use the Firefox addon Gmail S/MIME, but I’ve had some problems with it, and I’m not too sure about it yet.

For those who want a local offline copy of their Gmail account they can also use Google Gears (I haven’t tried this out yet though)