I think one of the services Google could offer is spam filtering and virus scanning. You re -point your MX records to google and you relay your SMTP servers messages though Google's SMTP Relay servers. That is not a new business model other companies are doing this. It would give google another stream of income other than Keyhole and Ad's.
Mike Miller On 3/29/06, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Allen Brown wrote: > > Mike Cherba wrote: > >> It looks like google finally is beta testing the logical expansion to > >> gmail. > >> -Mike > >> > >> https://www.google.com/hosted/ > > > > I don't understand. They are offering email for my domain. > > How can they do that without *hosting* my domain? > > They provide the hosts to put in as your MX record. Then all mail for > your domain goes to them. > > Then, basically they provide 50 gmail accounts for your domain and have > a web based admin to manage those. You can add more but it's not > guaranteed while it's in beta. Gmail is nice, though, in that the users > can POP messages from it. So in a way, it's not much different than if > it were hosted by your or by gmail, except you do get the gmail > interface to it. > > -Rob > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
