Add email hosting service

[starwatcher]

Title:
Add email hosting service

Area:
Server use (?)

Summary:
I'd like to see a separate, paid feature, wherein Dreamwidth offered email hosting service.

Description:
Since becoming net-capable, I seem to change my ISP every couple of years. (Usually to upgrade to better/faster service.) Changing my email addy each time is an irritation. Obviously, I need a permanent addy that won't change with my ISP.

I was considering G-mail, but the recent forced opt-in of Buzz makes me reconsider. That kind of behavior is why I prefer to pay DW than LJ for my social networking.

But any free email service - Yahoo, Hotmail - has similar problems with ads and promoting 'features'. I am considering paying a hosting service, buying a domain name, and using that as an email base. But I'm pretty non-tech-inclined, and afraid of jumping into issues I don't know how to handle.

I wondered if DW would be open to hosting an email service, for a stated monthly fee above the regular costs.

The service probably wouldn't be a BIG draw, so I suspect (hope) the servers could handle it, especially if storage space is limited and temporary. Nothing like Gmail's 7000+ MB, but enough that people can send/receive several large files before downloading to their own computer.

It may be just a pipe dream, but I'd sure like to have starwatcher @ dreamwidth.org as an email addy.

Poll #2305 Add email hosting service

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 43

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Should be implemented as-is.
2 (4.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (2.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
33 (76.7%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (16.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[chagrined]

O/T for the suggestion itself, but fyi, you can disable Buzz in Gmail, in case you were not aware: https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#settings/buzz

(It's still opt-in by default, but you can turn it off, so I wouldn't call it a forced opt-in.)

[starwatcher]

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Thank you. I did disable it the first day, and it didn't affect me. But the first opt-in by default, without warning people, and compromising their privacy, is as near 'forced' as makes no practical difference; it rankles to give them my business.
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