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Our first salesperson needs email access. Are aliases enough?
Give your first salesperson the right email access. Compare aliases, separate and shared mailboxes, then check reply permissions and conversation history.
Three brands in one email account: who should see what?
Manage three brands in one email account with clear mailbox owners and domain access. Check sending routes, responsibilities and shared storage.
Five people, fifteen email addresses: what are you paying for?
Count five people's fifteen email addresses without confusing mailboxes, aliases or shared storage. Compare plan limits using one practical team list.
Get your business email ready before the website launches
Launch domain email before your website is ready. Prepare DNS access, a mailbox and a sending route, then check a customer enquiry and reply.
TrekGuider: A Travel Guide Marketplace Built by Creators
For three years, alongside TrekMail, I have been building TrekGuider: a marketplace where travel creators sell their guides and maps. I built it on my own across 16 countries, with AI as my team. It is now live.
Buying an Email Platform Mostly for the Storage
Sometimes what you want is a large mountable drive and the mailboxes are incidental. Because the plan and the add-on price separately, the cheapest route is the free tier plus capacity — this covers where that wins and where a bucket beats it.
A Mailbox Per Device: Email as a Machine Interface
Backup appliances, monitors and controllers all emit alerts by SMTP because that was the integration available when they were designed. This covers why one shared address degrades, what per-device addressing fixes, and when an alias does the job instead.
When to Upgrade Your Email Plan, and What Actually Changes
Comparison tables are written to sell the top tier. The useful question is which limit you will hit first and what it costs to stop hitting it — this walks the boundaries in the order people actually reach them.
Reselling Email Storage as Part of What You Sell
Most agencies leave storage on the table because wholesale options need engineering or are priced per seat. This covers the real cost base, the three places margin actually comes from, and what you take on by becoming the vendor of record.
Email for Every Member, Student or Volunteer
A choir with 200 singers, a professional body with 3,000 members, a school with 900 pupils — none can pay a seat fee per person. This covers what changes when they do not have to, and the three predictable problems nobody plans for.
Send as Multiple Addresses From One Mailbox
One person is often several senders — sales to prospects, accounts to suppliers, their own name to everyone else. This covers identities versus aliases, replying as the address that was written to, and why sending as a domain you do not host fails silently.
Forty Domains, One Account, and No Spreadsheet
Nothing breaks at forty domains — per-domain work simply becomes the job, so DNS checking gets skipped and a broken record sits unnoticed for months. This covers what turns collective, the plan limits, and the two cases against consolidating.