[brlug-general] Google mail - aps etc... WAS Cox blocking email with numerical IP addresses.

[Petri Laihonen]

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 about
>> 4.5Gb. (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

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