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“This is outrageous… [this is] Gmail for our domain,” Benioff exclaimed. “I can’t wait to get my Outlook server out of my company. It’s really unbelievable what it does and how bad it is. Google does a much better job of managing email than I do at my company.”

I agree.

I recently received an invitation to join Google’s Gmail for domains beta program.  And with a little help from the Pair swellsters, was able to easily switch things over. I have all my mail going there now, and no longer use a mail client locally.  Not that I was ever really happy with any.

Gmail has proven to be an awfully good alternative.

I used to keep all mail on my iBook, so I could take it with me, and always have access.  Now I’ve got access to everything from any computer.  And good access.  I loved the webmail switch, so also tried it with work mail.  But they use “Outlook Web Access”.  I immediately found it lacking, so called to get my work mail forwarded to my gmail account.

Their first response was to tell me my responses would be from my rexruff e-mail rather than work mail.  I explained to them that actually, with gmail domains, I could set up different accounts and it would automatically reply with the same address it was addressed to.

Then I told them the things gmail could do that Outlook could not.  They tried to say Outlook could.  But I interupted to say: “I access the webmail in firefox on a mac”.  Dead silence.  Then, “oh, enough said”.  Outlook web access is extremely limited in anything besides MS stuff.

I find gmail better than my local Mac Mail client as well.  In combination with a customized google home page and google scholar, I’m just not doing all that much locally these days.  I hope their RSS reader improves soon.