Rumored GMail Service
While this rumored GMail service sounds pretty sweet, I wonder how many companies would be willing to route all of their email through Google? Can you say “privacy concerns.” I think the most use of this would be hobbyists who run their own website, bloggers who host their own blog domain, or startups. Which isn’t to say the service wouldn’t be successful, because GMail is a great client and if it takes the headache out of managing email, then thats great, but I don’t think the perception of Google’s privacy policies is the greatest right now.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 3:11 pm
As an architecture firm we had a great deal of problems with spam. I decided that the best solution was to forward all the company email to individual gmail accounts. Then I setup each computer’s Outlook to download their email from gmail. Spam was reduced by 90%, our mail is fully backup, office email can be checked at home, and we haven’t seen a virus yet. Gmail does not accept .exe files. Everyone in office is thrilled to use gmail in this manner.
breichelt said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
Wow, thanks for the comment David, thats a great way to reduce spam by using GMail’s spam filter (which is awesome, by the way). Was there any debate or apprehensions about using Google to handle your company email?
Would your company consider using GMail to manage your domain, like that article talks about?
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 3:51 pm
Your welcome. There was little to no debate or apprehension to route the company email through gmail. What made it easy was the main architect had heard of gmail and liked what he heard. When I brought it up to the team, they were all for it. We knew we had to do something to solve the issue and it had to be low budget. I ran beta testing on my account only for a week to see how gmail would handle. I cut beta testing short because I was overwhelm with requests to do something. They were getting tired of the spam. One of the architects wants me to show him how to do it for his home email.
Another important thing that we like about routing our company email through gmail. One of the computers had their outlook go crazy and it would not send or recieve. No problem, use gmail through firefox until I can solve the issue. Company keeps running with little downtime.
As for the gmail to manage our domain, to be honest, I heard about this first from your site. I will look into it further, but I am unsure how it could coexist with our current ISP. If we found it to be as benifical as our current gmail, I think we would use it.
Alex said,
Wrote on November 26, 2006 @ 5:15 pm
There are several good reasons for using gmail to handle company mails.
Spam is one biggie as mentioned above. I reckon gmail has one of the best, if not be best anti-spam technology compared with other mail clients. I was on hotmail and then yahoo mail, both of which disappoint me in that matter.
Another reason for myself is its super advanced search function. I used outlook with my previous work, when the mail archive reaches 10,000, you will hate the speed it searches anything old.
Being able to access anywhere is also a bonus for business people travel alot. Although nowadays many companies provide web interfaces to their employees but they fall far behind in accessibility, ease-of-use and others.
You may know that gmail now supports more functions with access on mobile, which is a huge benefits to us because it means bringing a laptop is no longer a must to check email on the go.
By auto-forwarding company emails to our individual gmail accounts, we can actually merge business mails with personal mails but still un-noticable. Gmail enables you to reply those business mails as if you were replying from the business account. This, though, has its own cons. For instance you will need to manually put on or off the business signatures or disclaimers.
Has someone mentioned gtalk in business landscape? I believe more and more colleagues will find it handy to exchange a few updates for work when they are all on the gmail interface, this means time and money saved.
There are much more to mention when you look at other handy features of gmail. But after all I think it’s quite a personal choice. If your employees are happy to stick with their personal gmail accounts, why don’t you let them use gmail to handle business mail as well?