mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Hopefully this thread is in the right spot. I'm not sure how many of you are using mail2web live for your touch pros, but I love the service. However, today I received an email stating that if I want to continue the service as I have it now that it will cost $4.95 a month.

I guess $4.95 a month isn't a lot for such an awesome service, but man this kind of sucks.. lol

Any of you guys going to switch to something else or keep mail2web?

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Thinking about paying for it since I know firsthand how reliable it is.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Switching to HOTMAIL because it's free. I'll just have to forward my regular email there.
I think Mail2Web was awesome untill they got GREEDY.
I was considering upgrading to their pro plan for the HTML email, but not now...

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Noooo! :( *Crys* Oh well, I'll just keep them until I MS Office.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I actually switched to hotmail a while ago. The reason for the switch is that I wanted HTML e-mail. Hotmail's been great.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I just bought a new server, Windows 2008 Server and Exchange 2007 Enterprise Edition with all of the corresponding CALs needed for my company. The total bill was just under $12,000 for the hardware and software. This does not include my time for installation or maintenance.

And you have the nerve to call them greedy? Wow...

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

You got ripped off :).

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I don't think I would call them greedy since they provided such an awesome service free. I'm glad you posted how much everything ran for you to upgrade so we have an idea on how much cost mail2web is incurring. I've gotten use to mail2web and will be paying as well.

Although I do have my hotmail on push too b/c of HTML email, but you can't beat being able to add tasks, contacts, and calendar appointments on the fly if you have a computer and don't want to put it in the touch pro directly.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

This is rather upsetting to me. Mail2web was awesome and so convenient. I have been using it for almost 4 years now. If they only had a more reasonable price for the plan. Something like $50 dollars for the whole year or something like that.

I have like 5 phones with mail2web accounts and we use it for calendaring and mobile mail. And I am facing paying 50$ a month, which is kinda steep.

Are there any other providers that are this reliable/ easy to setup for free?
Is windows live mail comparable, or does it have limitations?

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I never thought mail2web was very reliable, but for free it was worth it. try 1and1 it is 6.95 a month but provides html and has a great a usuable outlook on line and great options

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I only used mail2web for syncing contacts and appointments. I've switched to google for syncing (as of today) and so far it's working great.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Wow.... Never looked at it that way. That is extremely steep for your situation. You think they would have some kind of bundle deal. Or pay 4.95 and get three accounts for that one monthly fee.

Windows live mail is push and also has HTML, but I've never tried to add task, contacts, or calendar to my live mail and see if it would sync with my phone. I believe only email and contacts sync through live mail.

This is horrible, b/c people like you are either forced to move to another service and loose your mail2web email push accounts, or pay crazy amounts each month.. I hope they restructure that pricing for multiple accounts.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I was actually paying for their $4.95 "personal" service for a while, but I left them because they dragged their feet badly on offering Exchange 2007 on their personal side. They don't have ANY type of option, paying or not, on the personal side for Exchange 2007. I wasn't gonna pay $15/mo for their business options, nevermind the fact I'd have to set up my own domain, just for Exchange 2007.

Seriously, if they really want to get people to actually pay, they need to be offering Exchange 2007 as part of their pay plans on the Personal side and not just their business side.

Right now, I'm using Denial's service, he offers, over at XDA-Developers. It's basically the same $5/mo, but he's running Exchange 2007.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Really? I don't think so...

$4,000 for Exchange Server 2007 Enterprise Edition, not including the 85 CALs (for employees). Then the cost of Windows Server 2008 Enterprise (another $4,000 + CALs), which is well over $9,000, just in software.

Now throw in a quad processor rackmount server from Dell with 16 GB of RAM, three hot swap, 15K RPM, SCSI hard drives in RAID for mail storage (450+ GB) and also two hot swap, 15K RPM SCSI drives in RAID just for the Windows installation (80 GB).

Add in three years of same day, 24/7, four hour response time on hardware, and I say we got a good deal. What did you pay for your Exchange 2007 server?

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

You can try Seven Beta. It's free. Some people claim it's a little hard on the battery, but I haven't noticed any unusual drain since I started using it.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Considering my mail2web hasn't synced since 6am this morning (it's 1pm now) and I've been experiencing random downtime like this for months, I think it's time to switch to hotmail.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Damn, I used this a lot. Specially to keep my contacts and calendar up to date. There was no need for a laptop to sync. After every flash it was great. Agggh!!!


#^*%$!

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I tried Seven Beta and actually liked it more than Mail2Web, in terms of reliability and speed.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

i hope this isn't tru i haven't recieved this email yet i use mail2web for calendar and contacts and voicemails from youmail for my wife and myself i wouldn't mind paying for the service but given the way i use it i could just use seven beta and move away from mail2web

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

i've been using seven for about 6 months or so now and my wife and I like it also I haven't tried to option of syncin contacts and calendars but it's good for pushing emails

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

does hotmail also sync contacts like Mail2web did?

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

It does sync contacts. But I think its only one way. Like if you update the contact on your hotmail account, i dont think its updated on your pda. But I do know for a fact if you update or add a contact on your pda, it is updated on your hotmail account.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Does seven beta work by activesync? Since its in beta, do you think they'll eventually charge as well when it comes out of beta?

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Here's the email.

Dear mail2web LIVE Customer,

We have some very important changes that will affect your account that we want to let you know about. We're very glad that you've found your mail2web LIVE account useful. It has always been our intention to provide high quality and affordable Exchange solutions, and we have done our best to keep the mail2web LIVE service free over the years. However due to our planned upgrade to Exchange 2007 and to changes in our licensing agreements with Microsoft, there will be some changes to your service.

If you no longer want to keep your account, do nothing and it will be cancelled on May 1, 2009. If you want to keep your account, please read on...

Choose Your New Plan

If you want to keep your account active, you will be required to log into the Control Panel before May 1, 2009 and choose the new plan you would like to upgrade to. Here are the available options:

Our new free service is called mail2web LIVE Basic and includes an ad-free Outlook Web Access 2007. Please note that the ActiveSync and BlackBerry services are not supported with mail2web LIVE Basic.


The new Exchange 2007 version of mail2web LIVE will be available for $4.95/month and will include Outlook Web Access 2007, ActiveSync, POP3, IMAP4 and SMTP Service and more. We are also offering a 60-Day Free Trial of this service that includes ActiveSync, allowing you to try out the new platform before you commit to buying!


Our new mail2web LIVE Pro service will provide full access and include all the mail2web LIVE features plus a free copy of Outlook 2007 or Entourage 2008 as well as the MAPI access and RPC over HTTPS service required to configure the account in Outlook. The new mail2web LIVE Pro service is available for $9.95/month and we are offering a 60-Day Free Trial with full functionality!

Thats it in a nutshell.............. :(

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Actually, I haven't received an email either. But of course I believe you.


This sucks!

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

If you go to the page that used to offer the free service it redirects you to a new one where they offer you a 60 day trial. :(

http://services.mail2web.com/FreeServices/m2wLive/

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I've recently switched to a windows live domain hosted via hotmail with push to my phone. I have my own custom domain (ex mydomain.com) and started using that as my personal email address (ex me@mydomain.com). Since it's a hotmail passport as well, I can use that same email address for messenger, xbox live, msdn, hotmail.com, etc. I sync my email and contacts with outlook (via outlook connector), my touch pro (via windows live for windows mobile) and hotmail.com. For my calender I'm using google sync to sync my phone's calender with google's server, then google calender sync app to sync it with outlook. The result is everything in sync with one email address/signon for me to remember and use forever. No more switching email addresses to and from ISPs, etc.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Hopefully it doesn't if so that would suck. It's really good at pushing email.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

No, Seven doesn't work via Activesync, it works OTA, just like real push email. I use it for my Gmail account. One thing I really like about it is that emails read on your TP show up as being read at your original provider and vice-versa, not instantly but within a few minutes. What's amazing is that Seven Beta is even faster notifying me than my Gmail Notifier application. I would REALLY hate it if they started charging for it, though I honestly would consider paying for it if the price was reasonable.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Seven has always been a paid service (http://www.seven.com/howtoget.united_states.html), but they keep the beta version free.

FYI seven send 1 international SMS with every email you register, if im not mistaking int SMS are like $0.30ea but lots of people cry about it.

I use it and my emails hit almost instantly... same with my contacts.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I personally don't want to use seven just because activesync already comes built in win windows mobile. I am biased before even trying it, hehe. I know. :P

I'll try to find another exchange server or something along those lines.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

RF your a monster!!! I love it.. im working on some of my IT certs but your a beast....and as far as M2W..

i cant believe that they are charging now(i mean i can the economy sucks)..ive been using their service for calendar and contacts for years...but im not paying 4.95 a month when there are other free options out there...thanks for the couple years of free service tho lol...

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Check your pm...

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

So my question is, since my calendar and contacts are setup on mail2web, how am i supposed to get them over to somewhere else? If I delete mail2web from my phone it removes EVERYTHING.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Use pimbackup to make a backup on your contacts and calendar on your phone. Then remove Mail2Web and perform a restore with pimbackup. Then setup Seven (or another push provider) and your contacts and calendar should automatically be added to the push account.

If not, they may provide for an import of your data...

Pimbackup's web site is here.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

Doesn't it slap on a signature of it's own?

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

You should look at www.nuesync.com, I use it for my Google Apps Calendar syncing.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

That's some crazy stuff right there, wish I could afford something like that but I don't think I'll even make it to the $5 m2b, hehe. :)

But congrats on that setup it looks really amazing. :)

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I have already upgraded to the pro version of the new service for the day trial. So far I love it, HTML email, and exchange support for my PC, which I believe was more expensive before the upgrade. Also, the reliability of Mail2web has never been in question for me.

Re: mail2web live will cost atfter may 1,2009
 

I too am contemplating the mail2web switch. The part that sucks for me is that my Yahoo! account got so bogged down with spam that I switched about 6 mos. ago to mail2web. Now I'm being forced to pay or switch again... Don't know what I'm going to do now... So far I have activated my 60 day trial and am checking things out before I commit. $5 isn't all that bad, but if I can find something comparable for free I'm onboard. I've tried Seven and am not sure if I really liked it. Activesync saves better in my opinion compared to m2w.