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Amazon WorkMail Review

3.5

Amazon WorkMail has a nice a-la-carte approach, but it fails to deliver a polished experience and surprisingly lacks some of the enterprise features that administrators expect.

By Daniel Brame

IceWarp Cloud Review

3.5

IceWarp Cloud is a decent product suite at an affordable price. But its all-or-nothing approach means it might not be for you if all you want is hosted email.

By Daniel Brame

Zoho Mail Review

4.0

Zoho Mail is feature-rich with close integration to the rest of Zoho's business applications. It's marred by a sometimes confusing interface, but it's a solid product for the price.

By Daniel Brame

Microsoft 365 Business Premium Review

4.5
Editors' Choice

It's pricey, but Microsoft 365's combination of domain hosting, easy administration, security, and its industry-leading productivity suite keeps it at the top of the email hosting heap.

By Daniel Brame

Google Workspace Business Standard Review

4.5
Editors' Choice

If you're constantly connected to the internet, Google Workspace is an excellent answer to Microsoft 365 Business Premium that combines collaboration, online storage, and document editing at a competitive price.

By Daniel Brame

Intermedia Hosted Exchange Email Review

4.5
Editors' Choice

If you're willing to decouple from Microsoft's primary ecosystem, Intermedia Exchange can handle your business's email with enhanced security that provides extra control over policy.

By Daniel Brame

Fastmail Review

3.5

Fastmail will appeal to serial entrepreneurs that don't have many mailboxes but need a lot of addresses across multiple domains. You can also get a real person if you contact support.

By Daniel Brame

ProtonMail Professional Review

3.5

ProtonMail Professional focuses on security. It's a little short on other features and you pay a bit more, but if your work prioritizes privacy it might be well worth it.

By Daniel Brame

GoDaddy Microsoft 365 Business Premium Review

3.5

For existing GoDaddy customers who need the horsepower offered by Microsoft 365, this solution is a perfect fit. But if your domain lives elsewhere, you might consider going straight to Microsoft.

By Daniel Brame

Rackspace Email Plus Review

3.0

Rackspace Email Plus tries to be a lower-cost option for users who don't need everything that comes with Microsoft 365, but it doesn't quite get there.

By Daniel Brame

Fastmail Partners With 1Password to Hide Your Real Email Address

Fastmail users get an extra layer of privacy in the form of easy-to-manage email aliases.

By Matthew Humphries

New Cloudflare Tools Aim to Keep Your Emails Extra Secure

The company will now help defend against email spoofing and phishing attacks.

By Nathaniel Mott

ProtonMail Explains Why It Shared a User's IP Address With Police

Even a secure email service can't ignore a legally binding order from Swiss authorities.

By Matthew Humphries

How to Merge Gmail Accounts

There’s no need to juggle multiple email accounts when you can combine them into one.

By Lance Whitney

Not Even Google Employees Can Unlock Their Own Personal Gmail Accounts

There is no support for personal Gmail accounts that get locked, not even for Google staff.

By Matthew Humphries

Free Yahoo Mail Accounts Lose Ability to Automatically Forward Emails on Jan. 1

Getting the feature back requires paying for a premium account.

By Matthew Humphries

Gmail Is Adding Brand Logos to Make Emails More Trustworthy

Google kicks off a pilot for the BIMI standard in Gmail, which requires brands increase their email security in return for having their logo displayed.

By Matthew Humphries

Microsoft Rolls Out Protection Against 'Reply All' Email Storms

Hitting reply all to thousands of recipients will no longer result in millions of emails taking a system offline.

By Matthew Humphries

The Best Hosted Email Providers

Small business email servers are things of the past. Businesses are now considering nimble and versatile hosted email solutions for their needs. Features and pricing vary widely across the segment, so we've tested 10 of the top solutions to help you find the best option for your company.

By Daniel Brame

Rackspace Hosted Exchange Review

4.0

Rackspace Hosted Exchange excels at providing a familiar and powerful hosted email solution for existing customers. But if you're not already a Rackspace customer, then you may be better off looking at other options.

By Daniel Brame