Hi, My gmail account holds a huge number of visba-l , dotnet.discuss and the entirity of the aus list, from since when we were made honnary aussies when the discuss net folded.
Search is great, labeling is eaiser to use than folders. I pull in pop3 accounts from 7 other addresses. Gmail handles + address structure to make it eaiser to see where your email is being spamed from and then blocked. Ie. [email protected]. You can use https for all comunications. Targeted ads? I've not paid any attention to them for years. Apps, paid is not much more than the free version, the major selling points are you're own email address, automatic team sharing for docs / etc and integration of google sites to host your internal websites / blogs. I don't much like the "cloudification" of IT, brings back bad memories of dumb terminals and faulty connexions. But I couldn't live without gmail. .02c Davy "When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." I feel much the same way about xml -----Original Message----- From: Bec Carter <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:41:31 To: ozDotNet<[email protected]> Reply-To: ozDotNet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OT] Moving to web mail G'Day Greg, David Connors helped me out a while back to move some friends over to free version Google Apps and they are loving it. The documentation was great and easy to follow. I used the free tool to import the stuff from PST but had issues with attachments. I read somewhere the paid version has a better tool but never used it so can't be sure. You can also just pump the mail directly from the mail server into gmail with the paid version. Bec 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. > > > > 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) > > · Import – Can I import my pst into Google mail? A quick web search > hints that it’s possible. > > · 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. > > · Search – Outlook has a pretty good search facility, so how good is > the Google mail one? > > · 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. > > > > 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? > > > > Perhaps there are competitors to Google mail I haven’t considered? > > > > I actually have a Google email account, but it’s barely been used ever. > > > > Greg
