Any other decent, free IMAP hosts out there? Ever since the Gmail UI shit the bed and mail clients grew an archive button I don't really need Google Apps itself anymore anyway.
If you have the time for it, you could try a VPS and your own IMAP/SMTP-server and web-interface.
I migrated off Google a year ago to my own server, took a day to sit down and understand/configure it and have since then run smoothly w/o me touching it.
And since I host some other people's domains and mail for a small fee, I actually earn a few $ / year.
