[GRLUG] google enterprise for email

Rick Vargo rick at vargo.org
Wed Aug 6 14:26:26 EDT 2008


The only real downside to hosting your services with Google is that it  
gives them access to you and your company's info as it flows through  
their systems... You definitely would want to avoid it if you are  
working with patients, secret company proprietary info, and the like.

Rick

On Aug 6, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Don Wood wrote:

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>
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> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 12:15 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote:
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>> On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 14:05 -0400, Phillip Hebenstreit wrote:
>> > Hello everyone,
>> >
>> > Does anyone have 1st hand knowledge of using the google  
>> enterprise for email
>> > services?  I believe GRCC is using google for their email  
>> server.  I'd
>> > especially be interested in hearing from someone on the IT side  
>> of things at
>> > GRCC or other place using google for email.
>>
>> Company I work for switched from
>> qmail/courier/spamassassin/squirellmail/etc to using Google Apps and
>> Google Mail... using our own domain name and so on.
>>
>> It relatively easy to setup and get working. My only problem is they
>> don't really support "evolution" very well yet.
>>
>> Other than that, my only gripe is: why didn't we do it earlier.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> I host our own email server here at work and it's a royal PITA  
> dealing with spamassassin when users can't get or send email to  
> customers or vendors.
> What do you mean by they don't support evolution that well? What  
> problems might one encounter with it? And I'm definitely intrigued  
> by it if it garners Greg's approval. Sorry Greg, I sorta use you for  
> a sounding board. =)
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