Amazon Workmail - Anyone using it here in the UK?

s2016

HI everyone, does anyone here use Amazon Work Mail as an official domain name email provider please? Ie my name @joebloggs.co.uk (just realised that the forum is suspecting me of posting personal email addresses and might be blocking) : I want to set up my website/ business name domain as the @ address for a better looking business email (I'm a sole trader/ contractor) but currently using a basic hotmail account with hotmail as the @ address. I need some help as I know Amazon Workmail doesn't have telephone support help but is the cheapest option out of G Suite and Outlook business Essentials at £2.80 a month.. It has 50gb of mailbox allowance so seems good to me. I have been offered free email with my web host ( 1&1) but I don't want to link my web host to my domain name email anymore. Domain is with Hostpapa by the way. Plus I want to use / access my emails via my outlook web email application and not the Amazon Workmail App (so I think I will need to set it all up to point to my outlook app/ web hosting package). Anyone with experience of Amazon Workmail, please help! Thank you!

agrinnall

£2.80 a month seems expensive, my email hosting with Fasthosts costs around £30 a year in all, and I'm pretty sure there are options that are cheaper still.

s2016

Hi I will look into fast hosts. How long have you been with them for please? I guess I am looking at Amazon, Google and Microsoft packages because of the brand names etc and worried about a company ruining my emails which happened with host papa - everything got wiped by an apparent bug they had including my site which is why I am switching.

agrinnall

I've used them since 2009. In general they have been fine, just the odd glitch that is usually resolved in a few hours or at worst a few days. I wouldn't trust any email provider to safeguard my emails long term, which is why my primary access is through Thunderbird so that they are stored on my computer and backed up locally.

paddyrg

TSOHost lite hosting is £14.99/year which includes 10 mailboxes

digp

I recommend Rackspace email. $2 a month. Minimum 5 mailboxes so $10 a month. If you pm me I'll put you in touch with someone there and they'll reduce it to $5 a month.

agrinnall

digp wrote: »

I recommend Rackspace email. $2 a month. Minimum 5 mailboxes so $10 a month. If you pm me I'll put you in touch with someone there and they'll reduce it to $5 a month.

$120 a year reduced to $60 a year hardly seems like a bargain when compared with some of the other prices suggested in the thread, or even the price the OP found.

s2016

Thanks all. Yes, I don't feel rackspace is something I want to go with. I really feel Amazon workmail is what will be best for me simply because I feel comfortable with that brand at this point (since I am a teeny tiny business really). But I am still struggling to get workmail activated...

DavidP24

You say you are a tiny company, a sole trader, so I do not see what part of the Amazon offering you find NEED?

It seems to me that you may have some misconceptions about how email is configured.

There is nothing compelling in the Amazon offering and as a brand I am not impressed either.

It may help you to have a read of the thread below where I explain how your domain email could be used in conjunction with webmail providers to send and receive email.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5639403

If you have any queries please feel free to ask.

s2016

Hi DavidP24. Thanks for your reply. I just need an email management host so the big three I had whittled it down to is amazon workmail, gsuite and outlook express. Amazon workmail came up with th cheapest offering. I also configured (well support at hostpapa did last year) my domain name email to my microsoft outlook web application as that's how I want to use my domain email ie joe@joebloggs.com. I just don't know how to set it all up. Workmail costing around £2.80 a month. I know there are tons of other providers but I have no real tech company knowledge and my last experience (using my web host as my email provider) resulted in me losing all my domain emails so I don't want that option again. Yes , I am clueless on how email is configured too (but don't need SES service which I think may be like mailchimp in that you send out 1000 emails but don't receive any emails back?) I need basically what my free outlook.com email is doing brilliantly for me, but just with my domain name attached.