Comments on: IMAP & Google Apps for Your Domain http://www.giraffeweb.com/2008/05/imap-google-apps-for-your-domain/ Giraffe Web Development & Design Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Judy http://www.giraffeweb.com/2008/05/imap-google-apps-for-your-domain/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Judy Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:28:04 +0000 http://www.giraffeweb.com/?p=37#comment-4 Hmm…since this post, Google has upped the free accounts to 7GB. So, what is the catch here? If you log in the the webmail feature, you will notice as you read your mail that there is a one-liner ad above your message that relates to some keywords within your subject (I haven’t looked at it enough to see if it is also pulling from the subject). So, if you have anything really confidential in your e-mail, well, you might want to think twice about using this service. It is really one of those many situations in our business where you have to go with the lesser of several evils and in this case the spam was so out of control that it was taking up too much of my time trying to manage the e-mail on my server. The Gmail spam filter is really good, and it does not require someone having to send an e-mail back to be an approved sender, it does not require you to wash your mail through a 3rd party service before you get your mail, and it will save all the e-mails you send and receive online if you tell it to keep copies up there. Also, if you are reading your mail on your cell, you don’t have to waste time on the spam downloading or weed through it. I figured it would take me some time to fill up my 7gb if I never deleted any mail at all since my Outlook is taking up about 2GB now. You do still need to log in periodically to check your spam filter because at the end of its one-month life span it is automatically deleted. I have found a few legitimate e-mails stuck up there in the spam filter. Also, It has a great vacation responder that several clients have used. If you do want to receive and send e-mail on your cell, but want to keep copies of your e-mail, you can keep your Outlook settings for POP and then enable the IMAP feature to use with your phone (this is actually the recommended setting for the cell phones). Hmm…since this post, Google has upped the free accounts to 7GB. So, what is the catch here? If you log in the the webmail feature, you will notice as you read your mail that there is a one-liner ad above your message that relates to some keywords within your subject (I haven’t looked at it enough to see if it is also pulling from the subject).

So, if you have anything really confidential in your e-mail, well, you might want to think twice about using this service.

It is really one of those many situations in our business where you have to go with the lesser of several evils and in this case the spam was so out of control that it was taking up too much of my time trying to manage the e-mail on my server.

The Gmail spam filter is really good, and it does not require someone having to send an e-mail back to be an approved sender, it does not require you to wash your mail through a 3rd party service before you get your mail, and it will save all the e-mails you send and receive online if you tell it to keep copies up there. Also, if you are reading your mail on your cell, you don’t have to waste time on the spam downloading or weed through it.

I figured it would take me some time to fill up my 7gb if I never deleted any mail at all since my Outlook is taking up about 2GB now.

You do still need to log in periodically to check your spam filter because at the end of its one-month life span it is automatically deleted. I have found a few legitimate e-mails stuck up there in the spam filter.

Also, It has a great vacation responder that several clients have used.

If you do want to receive and send e-mail on your cell, but want to keep copies of your e-mail, you can keep your Outlook settings for POP and then enable the IMAP feature to use with your phone (this is actually the recommended setting for the cell phones).

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