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Jaruzel writes:
"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.
The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.
Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"
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(Score: 3, Informative) by tdk on Thursday March 20 2014, @11:47PM
Sorry, some of that is wrong. Google has a limit of 30 aliases per user, and up to 200 users per domain. fastmail has up to 100 aliases per user depending on your plan
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(Score: 2) by Open4D on Friday March 21 2014, @10:29AM
Jaruzel, I'm assuming you use your own domain.
With Fastmail I have a "Full" "personal [fastmail.fm]" account. At that level, using my own domain isn't an option. Instead I have a few aliases in Fastmail's own domains.
But it seems that with their "family [fastmail.fm]" account, you can always use your own domain, even if all family members are at the "Lite" service level. And "you can add or remove accounts or change service levels for a user at any time."
But it's confusing. They have no links from those pages to any further information. However, it so happens that I know about their help pages, which do have quite a lot of useful information, such as family/business migration strategies [fastmail.fm].
And there's this pricing table [fastmail.fm]. I think it only officially applies to "personal" account service levels, but I bet a lot of the details apply to the corresponding "family" account service levels too. But not the bit about aliases. So maybe tdk (in the parent comment) has succeeded where I have failed and dug up that figure of 100 from somewhere.
If the "Own subdomain" bit does apply to family accounts, that might imply that even "Lite" users could have unlimited aliases within their own personal subdomain [fastmail.fm] of your domain [fastmail.fm]. But that doesn't help you with your 200 existing aliases (unless they happen to be using the correct subdomains).
At least they provide a contact address to clarify all the above stuff: sales@fastmail.fm
Their privacy policy [fastmail.fm] seems fairly strong. It's an Australian company, but I believe all quoted dollar prices are US$.
One of the forums at http://www.emaildiscussions.com/ [emaildiscussions.com] is about Fastmail (although I'm not convinced that it really has 1/4 million posts!)
(Score: 2) by tdk on Friday March 21 2014, @04:09PM
I got the 100 figure from this page https://www.fastmail.fm/help/features_aliases.html [fastmail.fm], but this contradicts what it says elsewhere on their site. Confusingly they seem to have 'service levels' and 'plans' that are not the same thing.
Back On-Topic a little. I second what someone else has said. Most email service providers let you have a catch-all address (*@domain.com), that is an alias for one account.
In addition good email clients will let you set up rules to move emails (even between accounts) based on 'to' addresses, and gmail also lets you do this.
Combine these two and you can easily direct any email address to any account.
This is the system I use in fact, and I can easily make up ad-hoc addresses like thisisfromsoylent@squte.com, confident that I will get anything sent to them.
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