GMail for Domains

June 2nd, 2008 by Tony

You’ve probably heard about GMail. Access email from anywhere with almost any web browser… Outlook, Thunderbird, and iPhone compatible (POP or IMAP)… over 6 GIGabytes of storage… searchable… free…

But have you heard about GMail for Domains? Now you can use GMail with your own domain name (like support@TheCompanyWeb.com) ! And you can have up to FIFTY (50) email accounts. Each Email account can have over 6 GIGabytes of storage. You can have distribution lists, forwarding, catchall address, spam filter, vacation responders…the whole shabang! And the price? FREE!

Why would you host your own mail server when you can have over 300 GIGabyes (50 x 6) of storage for FREE? Some Hosting companies want to charge you $16 or more per year per mailbox! And their max size is only 500 MegaBytes! ( I’m Not Saying who… )

GMail has one of the best SPAM filters I’ve seen. Almost none of the SPAM gets through, but it very rarely calls my good email SPAM. Also included is virus and phishing protection.

And, of course, you can search through your email with the Google search engine.

Unlike, MSN, Yahoo, or AOL, Gmail does not add advertising to the end of your emails, either. That looks very unprofessional for a business.

And, even with all of this, Gmail is only part of what you get FREE. Google Apps for Domains also includes integrated contact lists, calendars, documents, web pages if you want to take advantage of those also.

Is it reliable? Google only promises 99.99% uptime for it’s enterprise (over 50 users) version, but I’ve used Gmail for Domains for about 2 years, and it’s never been down when I needed it.

It’s hard to go wrong with this one. Check it out.

Filed under: Free, Services, Virtual Office