On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, I recently suffered a few events which are hinting that perhaps I > should move from using a desktop mail client (Outlook 2007 in my case) to > web mail such as Google Mail. Yesterday morning my pst file was corrupted > and I wasted 45 minutes finding scanpst.exe (I forgot it’s name) and running > it over my 200MB file. Luckily it came good. Over the last few months I’ve > helped friends migrate to new machines, and in each case the worst thing was > the mail. One person didn’t have a mail client on Win7, another blew the > size when migrating from Outlook Express to Outlook, another had a pst that > wouldn’t export. This suffering would have not happened if these people had > web mail accounts.
Google Apps is very good from my experience- lets you use your own domain > > > > I had a look at Google mail and I can see that there is a feature to “add > account” and it will poll my existing pop3 accounts. This leaves me > wondering about the following issues: > > > > · Security – How secure is Google mail? I have no idea how Google > isolate or handle user’s email. Where is it? Who can access it? Is it > encrypted? And so on... (maybe it’s in their sign-up fine print) > Https and they have a sms feature in case you forget your password or something plus some other stuff i cant remember > · Import – Can I import my pst into Google mail? A quick web search > hints that it’s possible. > Yes you can import pst using a tool- paid version has a better tool from what i heard but i never used them > · Persistence – Can I be sure that my web mail will remain > accessible to me? Lord forbid that Google goes broke or drops it’s web mail > service. > Never had a problem accessing the mail- paid version has 99.9% uptime guarantee i think. 7 or so GB space for free version and 25GB for paid i think per user > · Search – Outlook has a pretty good search facility, so how good is > the Google mail one? > Search is great > · Advertising – Targeted ads to me ... Yeechhh! As if I don’t get > enough already on bus stops, TV, radio, food packets, web pages, sky > writing, highway billboards, etc. > The paid version- $50US/user/year- also lets you get rid of the ads. Free version lets you have 10 users max i think > > > These are the first issues that popped into my head. Has anyone else made > the move to Google mail for serious use and found it okay? Any things to > beware of? > > I've moved several people onto there and nobody has said anything but good things. > > Perhaps there are competitors to Google mail I haven’t considered? > Windows Live has their own thing too but i didnt bother considering them > > > I actually have a Google email account, but it’s barely been used ever. > > > > Greg
