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

[Tim Fournet]

There is strong evidence to the contrary:
http://www.ironmountain.com
http://www.salesforce.com
http://www.neospire.net
http://www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/saas/default.mspx


Andrew Baudouin wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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 <http://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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