Managing emails for several domains – remote access

[Mike-H]

I have several websites with different email addresses connected. At present I use MS outlook to handle all of my emails and occasionaly use webmail for remote access. This allows me toreply to customers from the correct email address to avoid confusion with clients.

Want I need is a web based solution that allows me to access emails anywehere in the world (OK at work or home and the occasional holiday). I need a solution that allows to me to manage emails-

Save them in folders
Reply from more than 1 domain
Use automated signatures in emails
Basiaclly everything that MS outlook allows me to do

Can you recommend a solution? What do you use?

(sorry if i have used the wrong forum)

[chandrika]

I am pretty sure that you can do all those things online in gmail. You can create labels (settings\labels) and sort mail into those just like folders. You can append a signature to all outgoing mail (settings\general) and you can send mail from other confirmed addresses (settings\accounts & import).

[newoptimizer]

I think its called imap in Google

[wdillsmith]

I've been investigating this solution for awhile but have not made the switch yet:

Email Center Pro - Email Management for Customer Service

Like gmail, they are big on tags and filters, not so much on hierarchical nested folders for filing. If you want to try them out, they have a free option and you should be able to set-up forwarders so email center pro gets a copy of all incoming email so you can try it out.

[AlexNewell]

It sounds like you could use Yahoo pipes and have osTicket as the central hub of your email.

[subsystems]

I switched from ISP pop3 for several domains to gmail. I also transfered all my outlook mail I had in folders to gmail as well using IMAP4. Only needed it during the transfer. Takes quite a while if you have lots of emails but it is worth it. I never have email conflicts between different PC anymore.

The trick is to setup gmail for IMAP4 and connect Outlook to it. Then create the folder structure in Outlook and you will see how gmail makes labels. Once you have that sorted out you go into Outlook and select and drag your pop3 messages to your IMAP4 folders in Outlook. They will be synced to the gmail account. It can take a very long time. Couple of days for me and several thousand messages.

You can turn off IMAP4 once you have all your messages in gmail. Then outlook can go away. I had to do this before moving to Windows 7. They removed Internet Mail and outlook express from W7. I don't use Outlook 2007 myself. It's ok and has lots of features, but I needed webmail access when away from my computers. IMAP4 is very slow in PC based email. It ends up resyncing all folders every time it checks for new messages. You'll see what I mean if you go through this process.

[Serj]

I am pretty sure that you can do all those things online in gmail. You can create labels (settings\labels) and sort mail into those just like folders. You can append a signature to all outgoing mail (settings\general) and you can send mail from other confirmed addresses (settings\accounts & import).

This is not true. Gmail does not provide for this kind of functionality.
Pricing and Signup - Email Center Pro Might work for some functionality, but their plans are stupid and expensive 10 mailboxes for $50 / month!?!?!? Who needs 10 gigs with 10 mailboxes, I need less than 1 gig with my 20 mailboxes. My solution is a laptop that has my outlook installed. I can take that most anywhere in the world too.

[SuperMan]

I use GMAIL to handle all my emails and it works great. The spam filters are awesome and I love having all my email in one place.

The problem I run into is that GMAIL limits you to 6 email addresses per account and I would love to have 50 or so

Any ideas here ??

[chandrika]

This is not true. Gmail does not provide for this kind of functionality.
Pricing and Signup - Email Center Pro Might work for some functionality, but their plans are stupid and expensive 10 mailboxes for $50 / month!?!?!? Who needs 10 gigs with 10 mailboxes, I need less than 1 gig with my 20 mailboxes. My solution is a laptop that has my outlook installed. I can take that most anywhere in the world too.

Gmail has custom send mail options that are free to set up, not sure if there is a limit on how many, but it is not mentioned and you can also use custom smtp server instead of gmails.
Adding a custom 'From' address - Gmail Help

You can use labels same way you use folders
Using labels - Gmail Help

And you can add a signature to all outgoing mail
Adding a signature - Gmail Help

[daijamesw]

Well I suppose this may be a bit obvious, but why not get remote access to your home computer?