Businesses will not consider hosting their proprietary documents on other people's machines, no matter whether "are they security experts?" is a sane argument
On Jan 29, 2008 2:49 PM, Petri Laihonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > > Gmail option is interesting.... I may need to check that one out as > well.... Especially if it allows to use some other "sender" address > than @gmail.com. I was investigating at some point last year perhaps > having managed mail service system, but did not find any good options > for it. Gmail does not support IMAP and alone my mailbox size is about4.5Gb. > (M$ outslurp would die and loose all of it with less than quarter > of that....) > > > Gmail does allow you to a custom "From:" address after you authenticate > the email address. Its a simple process but you do have some issues with > mail servers looking for a reverse DNS entry and your email could end up > in the recipients spam box. > Gmail now supports IMAP. I think they rolled out this feature couple of > months ago. > > Karthik > > > Ha! More interesting information.... > I will take another look at Google mail stuff..... > Thanks.... > > Now, Does anyone know a good reason not to look into google provided > services? > Some of my concerns would be: > - my stuff would be indexed on the server other than my own, who will > have access to this data? > - same above concern, if I choose to use their web apps (word processing > etc....) > - While I'm not a security expert, Is my data safer on my own server than > on google servers? > - is google becoming a M$ like bully while they grow .... > - anything else? > > > Petri > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing [EMAIL > PROTECTED]://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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