Your (corporate) mail, hosted by Google?
Posted Thursday, February 9th, 2006 1:42 pm by Ian Dexter Marquez
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Googling Google examined the GMail JavaScript code and speculates that the next big thing for the search giant’s email service is mail hosting.
This is how it is “supposed” to work:
After deciding to use GMail as a mail server, the first step would be to add an MX record pointing to mail.google.com in the DNS for a domain — effectively routing email directly to Google for it. … There will be a tab to manage domains — giving (users) the ability to link domain(s) to (their) account.
The post goes on to mention that Yahoo! has its own mail-hosting service for small businesses, so Google might be going in the same direction. The only snag, I think, in this service is the p-word: will there be an agreement that safeguards the subscriber from being subject to Google’s crawlers (seeing as how Google keeps track of your searches, mails, and now, chats)?
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4 Responses to “Your (corporate) mail, hosted by Google?”
[...] Today in Pinoy Tech Blog, I’ve posted about a speculation that Google will be doing mail hosting for domains. Cool, but the p-word raises eyebrows. [...]
I probably won’t use it for corp mail, but it sure makes sense for your own vanity blog/email domain.
Everyone.net used to offer this for free.
For once, Microsoft beat Google to the punch.
[...] Dex blogged earlier about the possibility of Google hosting your corporate email. Earlier today, links to this Google service has been spreading around and we got a tip pointing us to such: This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google’s webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software for you to install or maintain. [...]
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