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I agree. I work in a large-ish company (~9k) who a few years back moved from Exchange/Outlook to GSuite (with POP and IMAP disabled) - so using anything but the
by Samon 9y ago
I agree. I work in a large-ish company (~9k) who a few years back moved from Exchange/Outlook to GSuite (with POP and IMAP disabled) - so using anything but the Gmail web interface and/or the mobile apps is out of the question. Add in the obligatory (and yes, slightly annoying) corporate managed email signature (HTML), the fact that everyone is used to just copying images/screenshots inline with the text, and of course the very tight google mail/calendar/drive integration, and I don't think that even if I could use a text-only client outside the Google ecosystem, it would be a viable option.
- pyre 9y agoThere is a lot of software for working with Google services via the CLI. Your biggest hurdle is probably that POP/IMAP is disabled for email.
- zhengyi13 9y agoNaively, I could see wanting to disable POP given the potential for inadvertent mail loss, but what justification could there be for disabling IMAP?
- Samon 9y ago"Data Leakage Protection". The idea being that the everything that ever goes in or out of a mailbox is recorded, audited, etc. Yes, deleting an email/thread doesn't remove it from Vault, but this way, other than copying/pasting from the browser window into another client, there is always a trail of where an email went, and users can't "take home" a dump of their entire mailbox. When legal get involved and need a dump of "every email between employee X and external party Y", there is no question of whether a different SMTP server was used so we may not have a record of the sent messages, etc.