Re: [MLUG] New campus e-mail?

[Nathan Odle <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:
> How bizarre.  I'm sure for the price of asking that they could have
> gotten gmail to do the same deal for them or better.  Although I don'
> t do it, you can use that with other email clients, and they just
> launched the calendar stuff.  I am completely convinced that large
> organizations can do really well by outsourcing their email, but
> choosing this solution over others strikes me as really weird.  I
> predict we'll see a new era of people essentially  blowing off their
> mizzou.edu accounts (there was a previous era of that, but you might
> be too young to remember it. :-))
Not sure if you're talking about when I was there (1995 though 2002), 
but I recall a lot of professors getting pissed because nobody checked 
their school e-mail addresses.  That was a major downside, nobody used 
the things but professors often sent performance-critical information to 
them.

I just got my e-mail from Google that I've been accepted into the GMail 
domain-hosting beta.  It will be interesting to see how it goes; I plan 
to switch our office e-mail over.  One major feature for us is fast, 
reliable IMAP access.  We are the types that leave everything in our 
inboxes so that we can get the e-mail from anywhere (for this reason POP 
*really* sucks).  I am going to do some trials today loading things in 
and out of my existing GMail account via IMAP to see how it works.  
Actually, I'm not even positive that GMail supports IMAP.  Better check 
that out, I guess...

-N


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