You'll see the next series of posts all fall under the category of Why GoDaddy Sucks. The following are all the issues I've had with GoDaddy's email services:
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You can't use IMAP (unless you pay $30 dollars a year). Even if you purchase an entire year of hosting. Weak.
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The webmail interface is ugly as hell, just like the rest of the super-annoying
GoDaddy site.
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You get 100MB of email space for an entire year of purchased hosting. I setup a mailbox using the default settings, sent myself an email and my box was 2% full already. Come on.
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The SMTP server address differs for clients and hosted applications, meaning; if I want to send an email from Outlook then the SMTP address is one thing but if I want my web application to send an email the address is something entirely different. This is an unnecessary pain in the ass and something you'll only see with GoDaddy.
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GoDaddy blocks your email from your web application if you specify a From address and name that differs from the address being used to transport the message. This is especially annoying with a "Contact Us" form. Someone will enter their information and using your no-reply@mydomain.com mailbox you'll want to send that message to your personal mailbox with the appropriate From information filled in. You can't, it'll be blocked. So you'll have to append all the user's information at the bottom of the email so you'll know the name and email address of the person who sent it. So then, instead of simply clicking Reply, you'll have to rework the whole damn thing.
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GoDaddy blocks email if it contains ANY hyperlink that doesn't pass the SpamHaus database 100%, and again you don't even know about it until you realize your email just never showed up. GoDaddy actually parses the HTML of all the email and if any domain fails a SpamHaus test, it just drops the message. This is just stupid.
So what did I do? Switched to DiscountASP.NET where I encounter NONE of these problems.