Can I trust Google?
Posted by posted by Francis @ 11/07/2007 09:49:00 AM
When Google announced that they were adding IMAP support to GMail, I immediately thought that this was the end of my 3-locations-for-one-POP3-email-account-problem. I immediately signed-in for a GMail account and waited for the IMAP option to be enabled.You see, my plan was to have GMail read my POP3 email account (company email) and that I would use IMAP from my 3 machines (Thunderbird at home, Outlook at work and Mobile Outlook on my smartphone). It was going to be blissful, email unification heaven.
Today, the IMAP option was enabled on my GMail account. It works (just tried it). And now, I am second guessing myself. Can I trust Google with my company's private email? Not from a reliability standpoint (can't be much worst than our ISP), but from a privacy standpoint?
Anyone out there with a good answer?
1 Comments:
Unless you feel a need to encrypt your email, I doubt google is that big of a threat to your company.
Of course, if you want to sync like you say and control your email, just invest in an Exchange server instead...
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