jlvfr

Hello folks


My company has received a proposal to replace our e-mail system (based on Exchange 2003) with Google's Gmail Enterprise. I know the basic info in this system (box size, @what-I-want.com, admin, etc), but I'd like to talk to techs in companies that actually work with this system (nothing like hands-on experience) as well as users.

So, please, if you are in either of these cathegories, let me know (here or pm) so we could, if you don't mind, trade info.

Thanks in advance for any help.

gunnut

Google makes industrial email servers now?

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jlvfr

No...

You know the standard, web-based Gmail? They sell an entreprise (for companies) version that allows users to have 25GB, has tons of extras, can be administered by the company's IT, has the company's domain (ie, mymail@company.com), etc...

gunnut

I wouldn't use that for business. I like to keep things near me rather than in the clouds. Should something happen to your connection or to Google, you are SOL. But that's just me. I don't trust any online app. Just the other day Hotmail had a glitch that wouldn't let me access my email for the entire evening. Google had a glock a few months ago that prevented the customers from accessing their email for a few hours.

vlexo

Do you mean whereby you can use your domain name for gmail by setting your email dns servers to point to google? ... with also the ability of being able to create more accounts/change passwords/make subpages etc?

jlvfr

Yes, BUT:
- gmail has an offline system that allows you to acces the mail even if you can't send/receive;
- the system has an availability of better than 99% (better than my company's system... )
- has an outstanding anti-spam system;
- 25GB box!! Do you know how hard it is to provide a mailbox a user won't clog up in a week?

jlvfr

Yep, that's it. Been reading some stuff about it, but there's nothing like actually talking to folk who use it... now if I can contact such folk...

gunnut

I wonder how this is done. If you're offline but still have access to the mail, that means the email is on your end, meaning...

You better come up with this storage space somewhere on your system/server.

jlvfr

25GB x 150 mailboxes=3750GB... and, for redundancy (RAID5) multiply that by 3=11250GB

Plus a backup system...

gunnut

Not everyone will fill up the inbox to capacity, so you can probably go with half the size of your storage.

If you have the funds to do all that, then I don't see why not. But what do you really gain?

Parihaka

Yes I wondered that. Also, where is the server based, what is the legislation covering where the server is based, and who owns and legally has access to the data contained on the server?