Corporate: Lotus Notes. :mad:

Personal: Several Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail accounts. So much better to be able to get to my mail from any machine.

Security? If I have a sensitive exchange, we encrypt/password protect a Word doc.

Oh, and by the way, if we're talking court order, you could be ordered to provide passwords anyhow.

IMAP and Exchange RPC over HTTPs (a/k/a Outlook Anywhere) both support the offline and access anywhere model. I dislike POP3 because of its poor implementation of multi-client support. IMAP is significantly better in that regard.
Yeah...not really much security there. If someone is motivated enough to access your mailbox the password "security" on the Word document is a joke.

13years of email is pretty nice I thought I was a freak at 8years history.

My outlook.pst is a hefty 3.7gb with around 400k emails archived =D

I sold my soul to google about two years ago and wouldn't want to go back. So what if they know about me - I don't care.

The ability to use any machine to get my mail + my phone is worth a lot.

I still have my own domains, but forward all the mail to gmail and use the gmail servers to reply.

Works a treat!

Exactly . . . other than NSA sniffing your email (which they do on transmission, not on the server), if you're subject to a search warrant police can go on your computer or "the cloud". And if they don't have a warrant, they can't (legally) go to either.

Anyway, if you're really concerned, archive IMAP messages to your local email and delete the copy on the server. IMAP is the only way to go if you want to access your email from more than one location.

I don't think this is correct. It has been reported that Microsoft Office 2007 uses 128 bit AES for password encryption.

Do you literally forward the email to Gmail, or do you used Google Apps for domains? If you're doing the former, you should check out the latter.

when you reply to an email, from what account does the email show it is coming? I have several of my own business domains, but when I reply to a message I need to make sure the recipient is seeing the email address to which they sent the original message, not a google account...

I have been looking for a solution to my scenario because my current ISP (via my home office) does not allow me to use my own outgoing servers, only theirs (I do use smtp relay, but the number is limited). Also, my domains are with go daddy and their email servers are often black listed around the world so my emails sometimes don't get delivered...

gmail let's you choose which address to send from.

The domains are just for mail - two for the family, one for wife's business and two for our kids. They're on a cheap hosting plan with 1and1 and moving them is a little too hard for me to bother with at the moment.

If you have a suggestion for a easy migration path, I'd be interested.

I've configured a couple of my accounts to use the 1and1 servers to send the mail, so it comes from 1and1, but is still archived in Google sent mail.

The rest I use the Google servers for the mail. The others may appear in some mail clients, such as Outlook, as:
sent of behalf of [email protected] by [email protected]

Thanks. I will check it out.

Yes.

Reason number 147 to despise this annoying, dumbed-down, POC software.

Use Google Apps. Allows you to ditch 1and1 and get free webmail hosted by Google.


http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

Happy to do this, but I do still need a host for the domains I use as google doesn't supply them.

Any idea on the cheapest route?