6 corporate email services, one of which you will definitely want to use

There are two types of email: personal and corporate. If you omit the technical details, the main difference between corporate mail is that it is tied to your own domain (for example, [email protected]), and the creation and management of mailboxes is carried out from a single administrative panels.

Corporate mail for a company can be organized from scratch by spending money on a server and an intelligent technician, or you can simply use one of the ready-made solutions.

1. G Suite

• Cost: from $ 5.40 per user per month.
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android.
• Russian language support: there is.
• Mailbox volume: from 30 GB for each user to unlimited, depending on the tariff.

Gmail for business from Google is one of the popular options for organizing corporate mail. There are a lot of settings, and it may seem that from habit it is easy to get lost in them, but in general the service from Google is arranged logically.

G Suite works on a paid basis only. Together with corporate mail, even at the lowest tariff, you will receive integration with other Google services: office suite Google docs, a service for voice and video meetings Meet, a messenger for communication in teams Chat and others.

The administrator in G Suit has broad powers: for example, he can check the statistics of user activity, connect additional protection or choose a data storage region (most of the data centers are located in the USA and Europe).

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2. Yandex. Mail for business

• Cost: free with ads; for 129 rubles per user - no ads and with priority chat and mail support.
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Web, iOS, Android.
• Russian language support: there is.
• Mailbox volume: unlimited.

If you don't like fiddling with settings for a long time and you urgently need corporate mail, Yandex. Mail". Launching on the Yandex platform will require a minimum of technical knowledge and will take no more than a couple of minutes. The settings are easy to understand, and the interface is not overloaded with graphic elements, thanks to which mail is loaded instantly.

Even in the free version, all your company's mailboxes will be protected antivirus and Yandex's antispam - one of the most effective on the market.

To exchange large files, each corporate mailbox user can connect 10 GB of their own space to Yandex. Disk ”through your account control panel. In addition, the calendar and the "To-do" service are available for maintaining task lists directly from mail. The address book of employees will contain contacts of all colleagues, so you don't have to search for them.

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3. Mail.ru for business

• Cost: basic version with advertising - free; extended - from 2,990 rubles per month.
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Web, iOS, Android.
• Russian language support: there is.
• Mailbox volume: unlimited.

Mail.ru is another widespread service that makes it possible to create corporate mail accounts both on a paid and free basis.

Even in the free version correspondence protects Kaspersky Anti-Virus. In the paid version, in addition to a number of additional functions (calendar, corporate messenger, cloud for workers groups), there is a guarantee of service availability 99.5% of the time with a refund of part of the money in case of technical problems.

Contacts of colleagues and reference information about them (photo, department, position, and so on) are automatically entered into the address book of users. Using the service, it is easy to set up the work of a large number of employees, even if the company has a complex structure with different branches and subsidiaries - all of them can be combined into one address book.

Also, Mail.ru for Business allows you to customize the mail interface, if required.

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4. Microsoft Exchange Online

• Cost: from 250 rubles per user per month.
• Platforms: Windows, macOS, Web, iOS, Android.
• Russian language support: there is.
• Mailbox volume: from 50 GB per user.

On the surface, Microsoft Exchange corporate mail does not look as clear and attractive as competing solutions. But the built-in service Outlook Is the gold standard for many organizations with a large number of employees.

It is possible to connect up to 600 first-level domains to the administrative panel and up to 400 aliases to the mailbox. In addition to mail, the package includes many services, including OneDrive, Skype and, depending on the type of subscription, the ability to use office programs for macOS and Windows.

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5. Zoho mail

• Cost: free for companies up to 5 people; over 5 people - from $ 1 per month per user.
• Platforms: Web, iOS, Android.
• Russian language support: there is.
• Mailbox volume: from 5 to 200 GB.

Zoho Mail is a complete email service for the modern enterprise, including a calendar, notes, task manager, contacts and bookmarks. The service can be integrated with Zoho Workplace, a set of 9 applications that includes a corporate social network and an office suite.

The service is free for a team of 5 users, and this may be especially important for residents of Ukraine, since there are no options in the country with free service from Yandex and Mail.ru. Paid Zoho Mail plans start at a dollar per month per user when paid immediately for the year. A good solution for a startup, if not scared by the lack of full-fledged Russian-language technical support.

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6. ProtonMail

• Cost: from $ 8 per user.
• Platforms: Web, iOS, Android.
• Russian language support: there is.
• Mailbox volume: from 5 GB with the possibility of paid increase.

ProtonMail is a Swiss-based company with a focus on privacy. Ideal for detective agencies, investigative journalists, cryptocurrency traders and in general everyone who works with sensitive data and wants to protect all correspondence passing through corporate mailboxes from prying eyes.

ProtonMail features end-to-end encryption of all mail exchange. Letters are automatically encrypted before they are sent to the mail server, and thanks to the asymmetric encryption scheme, only recipients and addressees can read them.

However, ProtonMail only works in browser or branded applications. There is no POP3 / IMAP / SMTP support, as all cryptography is implemented on the web browser side in JavaScript. In addition, the service is blocked on the territory of Russia and its use is possible only through a VPN.

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