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Question for Google Apps for Edu email users
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Thu Nov 10 08:43:30 2011
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Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:41:48 -0500
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From: Brian Gibson <gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu>
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Hi everyone,
We are researching email/calendaring alternatives and I'm trying to get
a straight answer about whether the free offering from Google is usable
as far as email goes. There is a "Google Message Security" piece that
you can add (pay service) and it states the following 2 features...
"Stops spam, viruses, phishing, denial of service, directory harvest
attacks, and other attacks before they reach your network without
message loss or disruptions to email service"
"Protect sensitive messages such as financial data and personal content
by using industry-standard SSL or TLS protocols"
Does that mean there is *no* anti-spam/virus/phishing protection at all
if we opt out of it or is there some base level that we get with the
free version? Does the 2nd item mean without it people cannot do IMAP
(inbound) and SMTP (outbound) over SSL/TLS from their email clients and
if they use AirSync from their smartphones/tablets it is not using SSL/TLS?
I'd love to hear back from some email admins about these answers, and
equally as important, has switching over to Google (or Microsoft Live)
made your life harder or easier?
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brian Gibson
Systems Administrator
Wheaton College
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face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Hi
everyone,<br>
<br>
We are researching email/calendaring alternatives and I'm
trying to get a straight answer about whether the free
offering from Google is usable as far as email goes. There
is a </span></font></font></span><span style="line-height:
normal;"><font><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline;">"Google Message Security" piece
that you can add (pay service) and it states the following 2
features...<br>
<br>
</span></font></font></span><span style="line-height: normal;"><font><font
color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span
style="font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none;
vertical-align: baseline;">"</span></font></font></span>Stops
spam, viruses, phishing, denial of service, directory harvest
attacks, and other attacks before they reach your network without
message loss or disruptions to email service"<br>
<br>
"Protect sensitive messages such as financial data and personal
content by using industry-standard SSL or TLS protocols"<br>
<br>
Does that mean there is <b>no</b> anti-spam/virus/phishing
protection at all if we opt out of it or is there some base level
that we get with the free version? Does the 2nd item mean without it
people cannot do IMAP (inbound) and SMTP (outbound) over SSL/TLS
from their email clients and if they use AirSync from their
smartphones/tablets it is not using SSL/TLS?<br>
<br>
I'd love to hear back from some email admins about these answers,
and equally as important, has switching over to Google (or Microsoft
Live) made your life harder or easier? <br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-signature">++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Brian Gibson<br>
Systems Administrator<br>
Wheaton College<br>
<br>
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