Originally published July 2025. Last updated November 2026 with Zoho Mail pricing verified on Zoho’s pricing page, a five-user cost table, the free plan’s IMAP, POP and ActiveSync limits, Zoho’s annual-only billing, and a plain answer on which provider costs less. Short answer: Zoho Mail costs less than Greatmail. Zoho Mail Lite is $1 per … Read more
If your Greatmail account works in Classic Outlook and Thunderbird but fails to set up or stops syncing as an IMAP account in the new Outlook for Windows, your settings are probably fine. The difference is how the new Outlook connects: it does not talk to our servers from your PC at all. We recently … Read more
Introduction Windows 10’s end-of-life date is approaching fast. This combined with rising hardware costs has many users looking for OS alternatives and finding Linux as a viable option. But here’s the question that might make you stop: What about my email? After migrating one of our office systems from Windows 7 to Linux Mint, we … Read more
If you’re searching for alternatives to GoDaddy email hosting, you’re probably looking for basic but reliable business email without all the bells and whistles of expensive Office 365. You need professional @yourdomain.com addresses that work with standard protocols—IMAP and POP3 for incoming mail, SMTP for outgoing, solid webmail access, effective spam filtering, and maybe CalDAV/CardDAV … Read more
How an outdated law from 1986 puts your company’s communications at risk—and what you can do about it Last month, a prosecutor at the International Criminal Court found himself locked out of his Microsoft email account. The reason? Microsoft had blocked access as part of US government pressure related to ICC investigations. To regain access … Read more
In the digital age, email remains a cornerstone of communication. From personal correspondence to professional exchanges, its significance cannot be overstated. Yet, as our inboxes grow cluttered and demands for swift replies increase, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing email functionality has taken center stage. This article explores the profound ways AI has … Read more
Microsoft today acknowledged a bug in an Office 365 update affecting Outlook and the display of messages. In our reports and from what we’ve seen first hand, Outlook failed to display more than the first line of the body of messages and also displayed strange behaviors composing new messages. We found a recent discussion on … Read more
Microsoft makes it super easy to get your email, calendars, contacts and tasks connected with just a few settings using its proprietary Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) technology. Designed for mobile, EAS works exceptionally well in the iOS native Mail app, Android Gmail, and other popular mobile apps like BlackBerry Hub. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said using … Read more
Updated: October 2025 We look at lots of email clients and mobile apps. And while most mobile apps (Bluemail, BlackBerry Hub, Outlook and Gmail) work nicely with Exchange ActiveSync, the same unfortunately cannot be said for Windows desktop clients. In 2025, this challenge continues, though we now have a few solid workarounds. (Not sure if … Read more
Some versions of Microsoft Outlook 2016 feature “Simplified Account Creation” which does not allow for configuration of mailboxes using Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). Fortunately, the “Simplified Account Creation” can be disabled in these releases of Outlook 2016 by making a registry change on the affected computer(s). Microsoft has provided step by step instructions how to disable … Read more