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

[Andrew Baudouin]

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 <pietu at weblizards.net> 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
>
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