On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
I used the internet before Google existed.
Me too; in the good old days of Compuserve etc.; when AOL was in competition with the Internet and 'AOL' meant something rude 'A... on line'.
And yahoo works equally well as a free mail service.
In parts of the world Yahoo mail is technically defective. Just does not work.
(AL)
Why not rent a cheap VPS, install Centos (of course) and run a mail system for your daughter to use? Its bound to be better than Google. Your daughter's university emails can be automatically forwarded from Google to your Centos VPS.
This is the realm for ClearOS, SME, or Nethserver which will have a reasonable mail system working out of the box instead of the months it will take someone to get the details right from scratch. But, no, it isn't likely to match Google in terms of either reliability or ease of use - and especially in searchability.
With no previous experience of Linux and with no hand-holding from anyone, I switched from Windoze to Centos 5, installed Exim and it worked straight from 'the box'. No delays, no struggle, no bewilderment, no problems; Exim just worked like a dream come true. I use Evolution as the mail client.
No wonder I genuinely adore Centos. There is nothing as good as it.