Google Beta Testing "Gmail For Your Domain"

ndansmith writes "Google is looking for organizations to beta test its new hosted email service. From the information page: 'This special beta test lets you give Gmail, Google's webmail service, to every user at your domain. Gmail for your domain is hosted by Google, so there's no hardware or software for you to install or maintain.' The beta test is limited, but Google is accepting open applications."

Re:Wow

[Em Ellel]

Invites insanity is so over - just sign up.

Re:Excellent

[Bungopolis]

It's true that corporate secrets and other sensitive information could be compromised through this program, however I doubt any organization that needs that kind of guarantee would actually choose to adopt it (if they do somebody probably needs to be fired). The primary audience seems to me to be institutions like schools, such as San Jose City College, which is the first to try the program according to the Google Blog [blogspot.com], who can now offer their students a superior service without any cost.

Re:Excellent

[MikaelC]

Under GMail try:
Settings/Account/Send Mail As...

This allows you to send mail with no @gmail in the 'from:' field. (You are then asked to verify that you own the account you want to send mail from, probably to avoid mail spoofing).

Then just forward your mail from the selected adress to gmail and all should be fine.

Of course people can still identify the mail server the mail was sent from (by it IP) as belonging to Google, but this is only a minor annoyance to me.

Skins for gmail

[MatthewParker]

skins for gmail
http://gmailskins.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org]

Re:Do they intend to 'keep' everything

[Daniel Dvorkin]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't public companies supposed to archive all their corporate e-mails anyway, under Sarbanes-Oxley? Megacorps aren't going to use this service anyway, of course, but I can see it being useful for a mid-sized company to be able to say, "Yeah, Google has all of it."

"on behalf of" problem

[Wierdy1024]

That doesn't work:

When you send your mail to someone who uses outlook and they reply they see "[e-mail] sending mail on bahalf of [e-mail]" in the from line. That totally defats the purpose of doing it, as not your busness conatcts still see that you're using gmail, and cross you off the "serious clients" list.