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What are your thoughts on Google's corporate mail service? http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/pricing.html http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/bu

• rdl 13y ago
  Right, that's specifically why I said "$50/yr is too little". I would never use Google for my mail (I do have a gmail account for when necessary, but I hate using it). They're probably more technically competent than most shitty mail hosters, but from a privacy/security perspective, outsourcing your mail to a company which will happily turn it over seems like a bad choice. The only way I'd outsource my mail is to someone who can operate the server but not see the contents; this is technically difficult but could be done (relatively straightforward if you're willing to pay enough for dedicated hardware; conceivable with a better VM system someday). Ideally also with options in free countries like Hong Kong and Switzerland (which I don't currently have). For a regulated US company who was fully at risk to the USG already, Google Mail might be an ok choice. You still end up with the potential for civil discovery, but a document retention policy (i.e. destruction policy) of 6mo or less would address that, and Google does that for hosted mail if you want.