Allow me to wax revjimesque a moment.
I’m considering moving all of my mail, at least for my primary domain, to google. I’m brainstorming reasons fer and a’gin’ it, so help me out if you give a damn.
Good reasons to move to Google Mail/Apps for gentlenews.com:
- Mail not totally dependent on my web server
- Better (so I’m told) spam handling than my current cocktail of pyzor/spamassassin/blackmagic
- I don’t have to manage/configure/maintain any of the above mentioned crap anymore
- I don’t have to manage/configure/maintain jack shit, for the most part
Good reasons not to move to Google Mail/Apps for gentlenews.com:
- I’m still paranoid and don’t like trusting all my precious data to servers on which I don’t gotz r00t
- I’m not sure how possible or easy it is to do automated backups of mail data with gmail
- In the unlikely event GMail goes away or gets unbearably altered, I could lose anything not backed up
- I’ll lose a lot of the control I currently have, such as server side filters that make “creative” use of multiple mailboxes
- It’s been a long time since I used mutt with an imap account, I’m spoiled on giving mutt direct access to a maildir
Bad reasons to move to GMail:
- ??? Are there any?
Bad reasons not to move to GMail:
- Pain in the ass to setup initially
- Will have to coordinate with the handful of other people using mail accounts on my domain, most of whom are very accustomed to SquirrelMail (yuck) and will probably be shellshocked by the AJAX (do people even still call it that?)
- Any more?
Ok, so I didn’t analyze it quite as maniacally as the Good Reverend would have. I’m just not capable of his superhuman feats of neurotic overanalysis.
(I said “anal” twice.)