@UK PLC’s new cloud email system is brilliant.
I am in the midst of parallel running our new cloud email system vs Microsoft Exchange, and we have just been sending out 100’s of thousands of emails as part of our new green marketplace launch. The new cloud email system has been fast and responsive through out, where as exchange has frozen the computers that are connected to my exchange account.
I wanted to make sure that customers were not upset by our sending out emails, and so had all the emails send out with delivery and read status turned on to feedback to my own email address.
The result was hundreds of thousands of mails hitting my account at the same time, which was a great test of both systems. Sue and my pc’s ground to a halt with outlook connected to exchange, but my PC was fine when just connected to our Cloud Email 4 business system.
In terms of managing the email, it was quick and straightforward with a reasonable imap client. I have been experimenting with Mutt, which is brilliant if you like vi. However, the great thing about imap is that virtually all email clients from Outlook to thunderbird support imap and work fine.
I was able to move tens of thousands of emails around quickly from folder to folder, and I was delighted with the speed and responsiveness. It was remarkable how much faster it was than exchange, especially as exchange is sitting on our local network and has about 30 accounts and our cloud email 4 business is in a remote data centre and has tens of thousands of domains a huge number of clients.
We are going to try and switch over from Exchange to cloud email 4 business as quickly as we can.
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