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Do you expect the built-in camera better than a SLR camera?

If your email is bundling with your web hosting now, then please expect just a built-in camera quality of email service!

Malaysia Email Hosting Benchmark

Most web hosting companies offer email as a checklist item—something they spend very little time on. And while email hosting drives probably less than 1% of revenue for most of them, it likely drives up to 50% of support. What a bummer!

Most web hosting companies bundling email hosting (and use the magic word unlimited mailbox) as one of the feature in their web hosting package. You can google web hosting malaysia and you will be surprised how many of them are still bundling both.

Well, keyword like email hosting malaysia are seldom used even the customers are looking for email solution. This is weird, isn’t it.

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What happen when you try to send an email to 50 recipients? Send it one by one? Or dump all the 50 email addresses in a single email? Neither of them is a good solution. If you are sending one by one, it might take up to hours. If you do it the other way, most probably your email will be treated as spam or even block by your email hosting service provider. In this case, GroupMail could be a good help.

With the great grouping feature in GroupMail, you are allowed to categorize your email recipients into groups. Instead of sending email to a single email address, you are now allowed to send an email to groups of recipients.

Besides, you can also set a schedule using GroupMail. It is very useful if you are going to send a reminder. After the template and the schedule is ready, you can leave the rest to GroupMail.

Last but not least, you can still send the email using your own email account. You can have your email accout setup in GroupMail. However, it is strongly recommended to set an interval for the mass mailing task. You can limit it to one email in every 10 seconds or maybe 30 seconds to ensure that your email hosting provider do not yell at you for occupying their email server.

If you are upgrading from Outlook Express to Windows Mail, you might need this helpful instruction posted by JAF.

1. Create a directory under the current user’s Documents, such as Documents\OEMail. This directory needs to be within the user’s space, such as under Documents, in order to prevent possible access permissions problems.
2. Copy all the dbx files from one Outlook Express Identity into this directory, ensuring that folders.dbx is included.
3. Go to Edit | Select all in Windows Explorer and select all the dbx files. Then right click on the selection and choose Properties and ensure that the read only attribute of the files is unchecked.
4. In Windows Mail go to File | Import Messages and choose Outlook Express 6 format and choose to import from a directory.
5. Then use the Browse button to browse to the directory of dbx files. Make sure that when you set the directory that what is listed in the path is correct (NOTE: Vista can put the wrong path in here sometimes, so instead of c:\mypath it puts c:\mypath\mypath, so check the path to verify that it is correct, and if it is not correct then fix it by clicking the Browse button a second time and then leave the selection blank and clicking Okay.).
6. Then select the files from which you wish to import messages and click Import.

Last two months, TM announced to block the use of any external SMTP server. Subscribers of Streamyx broadband must change their SMTP address to smtp-proxy.tm.net.my. According to TM, this is to fight SPAM (I doubt this has anything to do with it…).

With all email users using TM’s STMP to deliver their email messages, something finally goes wrong!

TM’s SMTP is overloaded at last! The large amount of email going through this outgoing email server finally bring it down and all email users are having problem now especially most of their email does not deliver immediately. This nightmare starts this week. As usual, TM is not giving any notice on this issues.

Use Gmail as alternate SMTP server

You have decided to change your email domain, from abc.com to xyz.com. You want all email sent to abc.com to be forwarded to xyz.com.

This can be done with no cost by changing your DNS to Zoneedit, one of the free DNS service provider. Login to your Zoneedit account and look for Mail Forwarding section. Use ‘*’ to catch all names before @abc.com! Email forwarding at DNS level can be done without using any email server, but with less control.

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I have came across many big name companies, spending hundred of thousands setting up their in-house mail server using Exchange Mail Server. Instead of outsourcing, these companies spent extra time and money to maintain their email facilities.

No doubt Exchange is great, but that is wen you know how to fine-tunning it. Most of the businesses are not able to keep themselves updated especially when come to Exchange upgrade, patching of Spams & viruses, configuring for best performance…

Just like any other business, email is one of the most important tools for your business. Let the experts (a team of people, not a single in-house IT staff) to do the job for you, and you can stay focus in your business!