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Tuffmail: Still the best IMAP service provider I can find..

May 23, 2009

Here’s a question:  Where do you host your email? Gersham and I are rather well-known for a business we started in 2002 called Geekmail.  By 2003, we were on the cutting-edge of IMAP-based email hosting and ran thousands of mail accounts on a cluster of 9 servers hosted at Peer1 Network in Vancouver.  We pushed [...]

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Google Buys Postini

July 9, 2007

As GigaOM reported, Google announced the $625M acquisition of Postini this morning, which was not unforeseen. With Cisco’s $800M acquisition of Ironport (which was hardware-based), Symantec’s $300M acquisition of Brightmail (which channeled its services thru MessageLabs) and Microsoft’s acquisition of FrontBridge (which was service-based) there were only a view acquisition targets remaining in the email [...]

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