Personal email accounts

[Wassercrats]

How about providing Futurequest customers who want a personal email account that doesn't contain their domain name with @futurequest email accounts? The disk space used for a personal email account could be treated like it's additional disk space usage for our domain and the current domain limits would apply.

[Bob]

Hello,

FutureQuest has never allowed the use of @FutureQuest except for Official Team use and at this time not an area we would be interested in pursuing.

Even our families have never been provided with the use of @FutureQuest...

-Bob

[Andilinks]

I don't need another email account so you may consider this a disinterested opinion. Perhaps it's an idea that should be put on the agenda for consideration at the next FutureQuest marketing meeting.

ISP's routinely offer their domains as email accounts but I can't think of a web host that does. Some may, it's not something I've thought about until now. It might be a way to promote the name. If it's not prohibitively expensive it would be a feature not offered by other hosts and might figure into the decisions of prospective clients when they choose among hosts.

OTOH it might be confusing, leading people to think that this @futurequest emailer is on the FQ staff. Perhaps a variant of the FQ domain would work better.

[Wassercrats]

Yeah, a varient would work too and maybe cause less of a problem with spam, but I'm not sure how that all works. The idea would be to use current servers so hopefully it wouldn't be difficult.

[georgeek]

How anyone could think that a high quality hosting service would put its brand at risk by allowing public email accounts on its domain is beyond belief :shocked:

- George

[Wassercrats]

There are already rules about the website and email activity for Futurequest customers, and the service could be limited to customers. It would be pretty easy to show what the official Futurequest email accounts are and that mail recieved from other @futurequest accounts is from a customer. Anyway, a different domain like @FQmail would further clarify things.

[Bob]

How anyone could think that a high quality hosting service would put its brand at risk by allowing public email accounts on its domain is beyond belief :shocked:

- George
Amen :)


There are already rules about the website and email activity for Futurequest customers, and the service could be limited to customers. It would be pretty easy to show what the official Futurequest email accounts are and that mail recieved from other @futurequest accounts is from a customer. Anyway, a different domain like @FQmail would further clarify things.

I can see a number of issues with providing a FutureQuest branded email domain, the first being if limited to Current Clients the loss of that email access if your account was canceled or closed for any reason.

Second, building the backend infrastructure to monitor the disk space and have it added to account usage, not to mention overall management capabilities such as Lost password retrieval and new account validation and creation.

Third, who would qualify for a FutureQuest branded address, Primary contact only? Secondary? anyone with a FutureQuest hosted email address? Just more areas for contention IMHO...

Fourth, isn't Gmail already doing this ;)

There are any number of options for folks to obtain non-domain email addresses and I just don't see this is inline with what FutureQuest is about or an area we would want to become involved with.

-bob

[Wassercrats]

I didn't think you would. Unfortunately, there are some controversies with Yahoo and Google and I'd like to stay away from them. I had a problem with not being able to log out of Passport, so I switched from Hotmail to Yahoo, but that was with my settings on IE 6 and they're more relaxed on IE 7. And I'll be switching ISPs eventually.

[Andilinks]

How anyone could think that a high quality hosting service would put its brand at risk by allowing public email accounts on its domain is beyond belief :shocked:

- GeorgeNo doubt low and slithery creatures would try to take advantage, they always do. FQ is probably competent enough to forestall those risks, whether the effort is worth the promotional value is another question. As Bob points out, Gmail is already well established in that market and impossible to compete against.

[Wassercrats]

the loss of that email access if your account was canceled or closed for any reason.Offer free email forwarding to any other account for three months when someone leaves (as opposed to being booted) after being a customer for at least six months. It's only personal mail, so three months should be plenty of time. Sometimes, anyway.

ISPs offer webhosting and domain registration for their ISP customers only. I guess that's because it helps prevent customers from leaving, so it's probably good for business.

Second, building the backend infrastructure to monitor the disk space and have it added to account usage, not to mention overall management capabilities such as Lost password retrieval and new account validation and creation.Seems kind of easy, like standard software would do most of it, but I'm not sure.

You should probably give everyone about 10 MB of disk space for use only with their personal email accounts so everyone will have at least that much space.

Third, who would qualify for a FutureQuest branded address, Primary contact only? Secondary? anyone with a FutureQuest hosted email address?Primary only, but allow any available name.

Fourth, isn't Gmail already doing this ;)I bet barry at gmail.com isn't available.

[Bob]

I bet barry at gmail.com isn't available.

With your luck we would announce it and another, and there are a Bunch of candidates, Barry would get signed up first :clown:

-Bob

[Andilinks]

I bet barry at gmail.com isn't available. barrysmail.net is available, that would be cooler than barry at FQmail.net.

[Tom E.]

You could get a new domain with private whois and set it up as an IRM.

You'd get all the features/limits of your existing account, and the only recurring charge would be the domain registration.

[Wassercrats]

I think I'll stick to my domain for personal mail.

[Randall]

You could get a new domain with private whois and set it up as an IRM.

You'd get all the features/limits of your existing account, and the only recurring charge would be the domain registration. Yes, this was one of the biggest attractions for me when I came to FQ. I needed a web host for a couple of current and former employers, but for me it was just a place to park my email. Still is for the most part, but I've been hosting a forum temporarily and hope to have a genuine web site of my own up in the next month or so (the Randall Finder doesn't count).

The former employer's site has been dead for years, so I'm preparing to park his domains to free up some IRMs. But oddly enough, his wife has just become a client in the past couple of days.

And she's in the chocolate business. :lick:

Randall

[Mandi]

Taking clients with products you covet is not very profitable, I've learned the hard way LOL! Since I'm allergic to chocolate, maybe I should take that client, and you can have my old cloth-diaper client :rasberry:! I foresee a whole FQ'bie client-swap thing . . .

[Randall]

Taking clients with products you covet is not very profitable, I've learned the hard way LOL! Since I'm allergic to chocolate, maybe I should take that client, and you can have my old cloth-diaper client :rasberry:! I foresee a whole FQ'bie client-swap thing . . . Nnnnn ... nuh-uh. :dopey:

Randall