介绍 (Introduction)
Gmail is probably one of the most popular email services around. But it has some major drawbacks: the most obvious being that the webmail client shows targeted ads around your mail. Even more important, you can’t use your own domain unless you are willing to pay $49.95 a year.
Gmail可能是周围最受欢迎的电子邮件服务之一。 但这有一些主要缺点：最明显的是Webmail客户端在您的邮件周围显示有针对性的广告。 更重要的是，除非你愿意支付每年$ 49.95，你不能使用自己的域名。
What I do like about Gmail is how easy it is to setup on your mobile phone. It doesn’t matter if it’s an iPhone, or an Android (duh). Just hit the Gmail icon on your phone and within seconds you’re good to go. And you can use Gmail Calendar to sync your appointments across all of your devices.
我喜欢Gmail的原因在于您可以轻松地在手机上进行设置。 不管是iPhone还是Android(duh)。 只需点击手机上的Gmail图标，几秒钟之内就可以完成操作。 而且，您可以使用Gmail日历在所有设备上同步约会。
It also has an excellent spam filter, allows for both POP and IMAP access, has tons of filter options (including the dreadful tabs) and a very stable connection.
它还具有出色的垃圾邮件过滤器，可同时访问POP和IMAP，具有大量的过滤器选项(包括可怕的选项卡)，并且连接非常稳定。
But this all doesn’t make up for the fact that you can’t use your own custom domain. Any professional company should not be using a ‘mycompany@gmail.com’ email address. But $49,95 a year is a lot, especially when you are using multiple email addresses (because yes, this price is per account!).
但这并不能弥补您无法使用自己的自定义域的事实。 任何专业公司都不应使用“ mycompany@gmail.com”电子邮件地址。 但是每年 49.95 美元是一笔不小的数目，尤其是当您使用多个电子邮件地址时(因为是的，这个价格是每个帐户的价格！)。
So let’s look at some Gmail alternatives. Preferably free or low priced, and definitely allowing for a custom domain. IMAP access should be standard, same goes for webmail. And it would be nice it you could use an integrated calendar.
因此，让我们来看一些Gmail替代方案。 最好是免费或低价的，并且绝对允许自定义域。 IMAP访问应该是标准的，Webmail也是如此。 如果可以使用集成日历，那就太好了。
Outlook.com used to be a great alternative to Gmail: No ads, practically unlimited storage and email accounts all with your own domain. But they canceled the custom domain service, in favor of their paid Office365 product.
Outlook.com曾经是Gmail的绝佳替代品：没有广告，几乎无限制的存储空间和拥有自己域的电子邮件帐户。 但是他们取消了自定义域服务，转而使用其付费Office365产品。
After wading through dozens of email providers, I came up with this final selection: Zoho Mail (the only free alternative), Rackspace Email and plain old regular hosting. Turns out the combination of free/low pricing and a custom domain is a rare one.
在经过数十家电子邮件提供商之后，我想到了最终的选择：Zoho Mail(唯一的免费替代软件)，Rackspace Email和普通的常规主机。 事实证明，将免费/低价与自定义域结合使用是一种罕见的方法。
免费的替代品： Zoho Mail (The free alternative: Zoho Mail)
Let me start by saying that if you don’t plan on needing more than 10 user accounts (or 25 if you refer 3 other customers), Zoho Mail will be your best choice.
首先，如果您不打算需要10个以上的用户帐户(如果您推荐3个其他客户，则不设置25个帐户)，那么Zoho Mail将是您的最佳选择。
I just love Zoho apps. I’ve reviewed their CRM and accounting products before, and they all have the same business model: tons of features with a generous free plan, and even more features for the (quite cheap) paid accounts.
我只是喜欢Zoho应用。 我之前已经审查过他们的CRM和会计产品，并且它们都有相同的业务模型：大量功能和慷慨的免费计划，甚至还有更多功能(非常便宜的付费帐户)。
Zoho Mail comes with 5 GB of storage per account, offers an integrated calendar, tasks and notes apps and even comes with 5 GB of shared docs storage. It has a webmail interface that’s nothing special, but easy to use with a number of basic setting. You will also have to specify an admin account, which you can use to select some overall settings.
Zoho Mail每个帐户5 GB的存储空间，提供集成的日历，任务和便笺应用程序，甚至还具有5 GB的共享文档存储空间。 它有一个Webmail界面，没有什么特别的，但是易于使用，并且具有许多基本设置。 您还必须指定一个管理员帐户，您可以使用它来选择一些总体设置。
You can use IMAP and POP use filters based on email addresses, content or priority along with unlimited email aliases.
您可以基于电子邮件地址，内容或优先级以及无限的电子邮件别名使用IMAP和POP使用过滤器。
Setting up is easy, just point your MX records to Zoho Mail, add a SPF record and you’re done. Zoho even checks if you did it correctly so no mail is lost. You then just fill in their POP or IMAP server details on your devices
设置很容易，只需将您的MX记录指向Zoho Mail，添加一个SPF记录就可以了。 Zoho甚至会检查您的操作是否正确，因此不会丢失任何邮件。 然后，您只需在设备上填写他们的POP或IMAP服务器详细信息
It’s only downside is the spam filter. I am using Zoho for a number of clients, but a decent amount of spam is still coming through. You can’t change anything in the filter itself (like raising the threshold). Your only option is blacklisting domains, which is a tedious and useless task.
唯一的缺点是垃圾邮件过滤器。 我正在为许多客户使用Zoho，但仍有大量垃圾邮件通过。 您不能更改过滤器本身的任何内容(例如提高阈值)。 您唯一的选择是将域名列入黑名单，这是一项乏味且无用的任务。
The feature set for their free plan is very extensive, sufficient for small business and freelancers. It even comes with support, along with excellent support documentation.
他们免费计划的功能非常广泛，足以满足小型企业和自由职业者的需求。 它甚至附带支持，以及出色的支持文档。
Basically the only reason to upgrade is when you need more than 25 user accounts, or more storage. At $2.50 a month per user it’s still a steal compared to most paid providers though.
基本上，升级的唯一原因是当您需要25个以上的用户帐户或更多存储空间时。 在每月每用户它仍然是$ 2.50抢断相比，大多数支付提供商虽然。
付费替代方案： RackSpace电子邮件 (The paid alternative: RackSpace Email)
RackSpace won’t be the first or even the second company you think of when it comes to hosted email. But they built a pretty decent Gmail alternative. It’s not free, but it’s not as expensive as you might think either.
在托管电子邮件方面，RackSpace不会是您想到的第一家甚至第二家公司。 但是他们建立了一个相当不错的Gmail替代方案。 它不是免费的，但也不像您想象的那样昂贵。
RackSpace Email is priced at $2 a user per month, and comes with 25 GB of storage. But to be honest, that’s not really a special feature.
Rackspace公司现售价为$每月2用户，并配备了25GB的存储空间。 但老实说，这并不是一个真正的特色。
What is special is their 24x7x365 support, especially since you can get an instant response by phone or chat. And they provide an 100% uptime guarantee (compared to Gmail’s 99.9%), which at least ensures maximum effort to keep your email coming in.
他们的24x7x365全天候支持，特别是因为您可以通过电话或聊天获得即时响应。 而且，它们提供100％的正常运行时间保证(相比之下，Gmail的保证率为99.9％)，这至少确保了最大的努力来保证电子邮件的进入。
RackSpace Email offers both POP and IMAP access, and offers a simple webmail interface (you could also call it easy to use). It offers the same filtering option as Zoho Mail. Nothing fancy but it gets the job done.
RackSpace Email同时提供POP和IMAP访问，并提供了一个简单的Webmail界面(您也可以称其易于使用)。 它提供与Zoho Mail相同的过滤选项。 没什么花样，但它可以完成工作。
The real surprise is in the Contacts and Calendar screens. If you don’t mind using webmail, you can have access to shared calendars and contacts.
真正的惊喜是在“联系人”和“日历”屏幕中。 如果您不介意使用网络邮件，则可以访问共享的日历和联系人。
Shared calendars are not common with hosted email providers, but they’re very important to have if you are running a sales or support team with leads or tickets to follow up.
共享日历在托管的电子邮件提供商中并不常见，但是如果您要管理销售团队或支持团队并提供线索或票证，则共享日历非常重要。
These features, combined with excellent reliability and support, make RackSpace Email an excellent alternative. If you want to go really fancy you can even get Hosted Exchange for $10 a user per month. But the regular email product will do the trick for most of us.
这些功能，再加上出色的可靠性和支持，使RackSpace Email成为绝佳的选择。 如果您真的想花哨的话，甚至可以每月每用户10 美元的价格购买 Hosted Exchange。 但是常规的电子邮件产品将为我们大多数人带来成功。
自己动手的替代方案：好的'ol虚拟主机 (The Do-It-Yourself alternative: Good ‘ol web hosting)
Most people think of regular web hosting when it comes to hosting email addresses. But with some very advanced webmail clients nowadays you can practically build your own Gmail alternative for a few dollars a month. In most cases you can use as many domains and email addresses as you like.
对于托管电子邮件地址，大多数人会想到常规的虚拟主机。 但是，如今，有了一些非常先进的Webmail客户，您几乎可以每月花费几美元来构建自己的Gmail替代产品。 在大多数情况下，您可以根据需要使用任意多个域和电子邮件地址。
While most hosting companies offer POP, IMAP and webmail in their default packages, this doesn’t mean you can just sign up where ever you want.
尽管大多数托管公司都以默认软件包提供POP，IMAP和网络邮件，但这并不意味着您可以随心所欲地注册。
Truth is many hosting companies don’t really like hosting email, since it’s quite easy to have your IP range labeled as spammy if you attract the wrong customers.
真相是，许多托管公司并不真正喜欢托管电子邮件，因为如果您吸引了错误的客户，则很容易将您的IP范围标记为垃圾邮件。
There’s also a difference between secure (SSL, which is prefered) or non-secure IMAP/POP access, and basic or advanced webmail clients.
安全(首选SSL)或非安全IMAP / POP访问与基本或高级Webmail客户端之间也存在区别。
So you have to do a bit of research. But when you do, you can find some very interesting options.
因此，您必须进行一些研究。 但是，当您这样做时，您会发现一些非常有趣的选项。
For example for one client I wanted to use server side filtering of emails. While this might seem easy (most hosted email providers offer it), this isn’t the case with the most popular webmail apps.
例如，对于一个客户，我想使用服务器端的电子邮件过滤。 尽管这似乎很容易(大多数托管的电子邮件提供商都提供了此功能)，但最流行的Webmail应用却并非如此。
Popular webmail clients like Horde and Squirrelmail require a plugin to perform this task. This means a web host has to support it, and most of them don’t.
诸如Horde和Squirrelmail之类的流行Webmail客户端需要一个插件来执行此任务。 这意味着虚拟主机必须支持它，而大多数都不支持。
This seems like a trivial feature. But if this is what your client is looking for, you just might end up moving the whole domain to a different provider if you current one doesn’t support it.
这似乎是一个琐碎的功能。 但是，如果这正是您的客户所寻找的，那么您可能会最终将整个域移至其他提供商，如果您当前不支持该提供商。
The only downside is that most webmail clients don’t offer any type of calendar functionality. Some of them offer plugins for this, though, but again your host has to support it.
唯一的缺点是大多数Webmail客户端不提供任何类型的日历功能。 尽管其中一些提供了此功能的插件，但是您的主机又必须支持它。
All I am saying is that you need to be sure that you get what you need before signing up. But when you do, I hope you agree with me that using regular web hosting is a pretty good Gmail alternative, at very low cost.
我要说的是，您需要确保在注册之前能获得所需的东西。 但是，当您这样做时，我希望您同意我的看法，即使用常规网络托管是Gmail的一种非常不错的选择，而且成本非常低。
结论 (Conclusion)
With this article I wanted to present you with three very different Gmail alternatives. Zoho Mail seems the most obvious one, and probably is the best alternative if you need just a few accounts.
在这篇文章中，我想向您介绍三种截然不同的Gmail替代方案。 Zoho Mail似乎是最明显的邮件，如果您只需要几个帐户，可能是最好的选择。
RackSpace Email is a very cost-effective alternative. RackSpace has an excellent reputation when it comes to support and reliability, and its pricing is very competitive.
RackSpace Email是一种非常经济高效的选择。 在支持和可靠性方面，RackSpace享有盛誉，其价格极具竞争力。
Doing it yourself by using regular web hosting is a very viable and cheap alternative, as long as you use a decent hosting company. Just make sure you do your research first.
只要使用一家不错的托管公司，您可以使用常规的虚拟主机自己做，这是一种非常可行且便宜的选择。 只要确保您先进行研究即可。
Let me know in the comments which option your prefer, or what you consider the best Gmail alternative.
在评论中让我知道您更喜欢哪个选项，或者您认为最佳的Gmail选择。
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