Hello! I have recently opened an email service for my website http://www.hostopen.net. It offers 1 GB free space, up to 4096 bit encryption, limited free sms, smtp, pop3 and imap and a lot more. My question to you is, how should I market this? I have put a banner on my main website, but since it does not have many users not a lot of people are seeing it. I would be very happy if someone could help me with this.
The question is why? Why should I use your email service verses gmail/hotmail/yahoo/etc? a gig of space and 4096bit encryption is okay, but what does that mean to the end user? Where are you doing that encryption, on the password? I see nothing thus far in the webmail client that states what you claim, so I assume it is just the password. One of the first things I notice is no captcha; spambot heaven. It would be quite simple to program a bot to automate creating accounts to spam from. This also means without a captcha I can brute force a password, that 4096bit encrypted password does not mean much when you can do that. I see no need for this email. I asked these questions to be proven wrong. They are questions to ask yourself what is the niche for this service. Please, prove me wrong.
I see what you mean, and I like your approach. As for the features, you can read more about them here if you are interested: http://www.hostopen.net/faq.php?faq=email The list is not finished yet, but maybe you could help me out like you did with your first post? The captcha image will be fixed sometime in the near future. Is there any "toplist" site for email services, or some other list of all possible email accounts? Thanks for your help!
Okay, in the FAQ I see it supports PGP. I would advertise this over 4096 number. This is quite a neat option, but one small problem; no SSL. If I am security smart enough to want PGP, I want the transaction between server and my browser to be secured as well. Also, some of the links on the bottom of the page use javascript. There is no good reason to use javascript for these links, paranoid people like myself surf with javascript disabled by default. Besides the amount of space I still dont see a reason to use this email service instead of Fastmail.
I will have SSL fixed soon. I will also change the javascript links, thank you for telling me. I do not understand what you mean by Fastmail being better than my email services, I just cannot see how they compare. Fastmail do not offer any of the security measures that we have, and a lot of other features are also missing from their service.
Fastmail was one of the first email providers to support PGP. They really do not advertise it, but in the security world they are well known.