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Review of GMail for Your Domain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fingers-in-another-pie dept.

DevanJedi writes "Google recently started offering GMail hosted email service, with 25 free 2 GB email accounts, for universities and beta-testing private domains. Science Addiction has a review of the GMail for Your Domain service and its features including screenshots and speculation on future Google free and paid hosting efforts."

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  1. I gave it a try by kkamrani · · Score: 5, Informative

    I gave it a try for my domain, anthropology.net, and aside from somewhat of a hurdle getting my registrar to use Google's MX records, I have nothing but praise for the GMail hosting service. It really offers me and my site a professional web mail service.

    Although, I must say I swapped back out because they don't seem to have a catch-all email feature, like *@anthropology.net

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    1. Re:I gave it a try by outZider · · Score: 5, Informative

      That's a Good Thing(tm), really. Catchalls are huge spam traps. If you end up getting a dictionary attack, every address they try is set to 'valid'. ;)

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    2. Re:I gave it a try by Pathwalker · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Catchalls are huge spam traps. If you end up getting a dictionary attack, every address they try is set to 'valid'. ;)

      Is this a bad thing? A few friends and I have found that there are uses for having a set of addresses which only get spam...

  2. Outlook, not Gmail by DragonHawk · · Score: 5, Informative

    "One of the main problems with GMail is the "on behalf of" thing when trying to masquerade under a valid alternative email address."

    That's really more of an Outlook issue. GMail is adhering to the standards. "From" identifies the nominal author(s) of a message. "Sender" identifies the specific, single agent which originated a message. See RFC-2822, Section 3.6.2.

    It's hardly GMail's fault that Outlook presents that information in such a funny looking way.

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  3. Re:Old news but welcome by sprins · · Score: 5, Informative
    One of the main problems with GMail is the "on behalf of" thing when trying to masquerade under a valid alternative email address.

    I'd say one of the mail problems with GMail is the fact that their outbound SMTP relayers are off-and-on listed in the dnsbl.sorbs.net blackhole. This means mail you send out may get blocked by receiving servers that check this blackhole.

    I'm regularly getting these kinds of messages when I send out mail and that really sucks:

    PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 554 Service unavailable; Client host [64.233.166.180] blocked using dnsbl.sorbs.net; Spam Received See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?64.233.166.180