Thread: Gmail for enterprises: anyone has it?

Originally Posted by 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.

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?

Originally Posted by 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?

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...

Originally Posted by jlvfr

Yes, BUT:
- gmail has an offline system that allows you to acces the mail even if you can't send/receive;

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...

Originally Posted by jlvfr

- 25GB box!! Do you know how hard it is to provide a mailbox a user won't clog up in a week?

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

Originally Posted by gunnut

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

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

Plus a backup system...

Originally Posted by jlvfr

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

Plus a backup system...

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?

Originally Posted by 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.

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?