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I'm a contractor, so my 'work' email address changes a lot. More importantly, I lose any calendar entries I made when the contract ends.
Whilst I don't mind running servers/services at home, this needs to be like water from the tap and I can't afford a connection like that at home.

So... hosted exchange seems like a winner? I'll just keep using it for calendar perm then and have it synched to my Windows Mobile (this is important). Job done. No more whinging from the family when I forget someone elses birthday.

Any recommendations on a provider? Obviously, I'm looking for just one account, not 100+.
 
I'd say gmail would be the better option for persistant email with useful business orientated features...

Or rent your own VPS and domain and setup your own stuff if you have the knowledge.
 
Renting your own VPS sounds like a great idea, actually. Of course you'll need to buy licenses then... which is a bit of a pain. Any particular reason it needs to be exchange though? A few people mentioning GMAIL etc, but you could set up any *nix server and have these sorts of features... set up Horde as a web interface.. It needn't be expensive. Let us know what you do! I'm quite interested...
 
The only goal here is to get calendar items from a central, reliable source onto my Windows Mobile. Period!
Looks like there are issues with live accounts and calendar; i.e. Microsoft simply don't want it to work ;/
 
GMail will do all that for you easily.
I have it pulling down calendar updates, contact info etc. If you have an iphone you can pay the £59.99 per year and use MobileMe to do it all for you, or use the gmail app for the iphone.

Theres also a Google CalendarSync program that pushes any changes made on your Outlook client (on your laptop/desktop) to gmail.com (your account) so you can view it wherever without having to explicitly sync it.
 
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