The free use of Postini is also nice (Google bought out Postini a few years ago) -- especially if you have spent hours making your SpamAssassin configuration perfect over a weekend; just to find it doens't work very well the next week (I wont say how many hours I put into SpamAssassin before I moved everything over to GMail!)
Stan On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Mike Raley <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, > > Btw, Google apps does have a free, unsupported version available. I have > been using it for approximately 4 different organizations for about a year > now. I have yet to actually need Google's support for anything, so I have > no qualms about the lack of support for no cost. > > For the person that simply doesn't have the bandwidth/hardware/time to run > and admin their own mail server it's a really good option. My only > complaints are it occasionally takes an extended time to send emails within > the domain you are a part of, and that for the admin, you do not have the > full control as if you were hosting the server yourself (I cannot go in and > find an email someone "claims" to have "lost", or check maillogs) > > But otherwise, I would recommend it, unless you have lots of spare time on > your hands! ;) > > Mike Raley > > > --- On Wed, 12/31/08, Bradley Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Bradley Holt <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: Unique email problem (apparently)] > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 10:17 AM > > We've been using Google Apps (Gmail for your domain) > > since the day they > > started offering a paid version and have been quite happy > > with it. > > $50/user/year is very good deal especially for something so > > business > > critical. With four user we only pay $200 year, have > > practically zero > > administrative cost, and have had extremely little > > downtime. Don't forget > > about all the other goodies you get too such as Google Docs > > and Google Sites > > (a not-yet-very-well-known-SharePoint-killer, IMHO). > > We're quite comfortable > > living "in the cloud" (our hosting is "in > > the cloud" as well) despite the > > many naysayers. > > > > Thanks, > > Bradley > > > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Gary Brown > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Thank you all for the suggestions. It has really made > > me take a look at > > > GMail. I did find some unsettling information @ > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gmail#Criticisms and was > > wondering what > > > experience those of you who use Gmail have had. > > > > > > I'm also looking into Josh's method and found > > > http://www.linux.com/feature/146613 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > http://bradley-holt.blogspot.com/ > > > >
