I have my own work domain email address (self employed) which I access using outlook on just my office PC and a personal gmail account.
I forward all my work domain mail to my gmail so I never miss an email. I've noticed recently that I'm now getting tons of spam to my work address but almost none is reaching my gmail account as it's being filtered by google.
This has got me thinking about ditching good old Outlook and moving over to Google's business email offering (gsuite)
Anybody here using it and have any opinions?
following with interest for the wife..
This is the one you pay a tenner a month or something?
DrP
You can still use outlook with gmail for business as far as i know.
We use it at work for a few hundred people. Works well and filtering is good but you do need to check your spam filter each week
I prefer office365 as the shared calendar stuff and linking to skype is better. Cost is similar i think but then being able to share office docs within a team is great. Learning curve is steeper though
If its only you then either would do.
Oh, the support with o365 is great. I just raise a case and usually get a call back the same day.
starts @ £3.30/month. If it keeps the spam away I'm happy!
I use it.
Can't say it is any better (or worse) at preventing spam than anything else, to be honest.
Rachel
Many small businesses I know just use regular gmail accounts and don't bother with paid ones. My personal email is accessed via iOS / Mac mail apps.
following with interest for the wife..
you are bill clinton and i claim my fiver
Many small businesses I know just use regular gmail accounts and don't bother with paid ones.
This is what I'm wondering ..... I'm not sure that my clients would be bothered if an email came from my personal gmail account or my business domain. I already reply from my gmail account occasionally and it's not been mentioned
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I used to use it.
Was very good no spam for me and also @sharkbait.com looks better than a @gmail.com
It would be a business cost so costs you nothing
It's worth also considering 365 Business Essentials (or premium if you want a new office suite). It's also around £3 per month, has reasonably good mail filtering and lots of other 'cloud' tools.
I use gmail for business. I like it but I'm a fairly light user.
It was pretty easy to set up and has required no maintenance since.
Pros -
gmail and all the apps (mobile etc)
Access from anywhere
Docs & Sheets is 2nd to none for collaborative content
Cons -
email signatures not as good yet (AFAIK unless you use the old version of gmail)
some invites do funny things when received on gmail
for me - I'm happy.
Just finished migrating around 4000 accounts to O365. Its excellent.
Spam filtering is configurable and the monthly cost includes apps and cloud storage.
We've setup hundreds of google suite accounts for clients and have never had any issues unlike other services that I wont name.. if you prefer outlook maybe look at outlook365 instead.
My business is email critical and we run around 10 accounts on google suite with no issues.
Their logging tools are good, you can setup dkim and spf for better deliverability (less chance of being spoofed) and their migration tool is getting there..
I have my own domain, which sends mail to my POP server and also to my (private/free) gmail account. In gmail I have told it to send emails as if from my domain.
(Bit of a caveat - mine seems to say "on behalf of dave@domain", where as the kids/wife just says "wife@domain" (correctly) when sending from gmail. If it bothered me I could probably work out why and fix mine)
mickmcd - Member
following with interest for the wife..
you are bill clinton and i claim my fiver
Top work, top, top work!
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the 'correct' one is actually the on behalf of according to spec but most systems don't do it. Whether or not you see it depends on the email client but you cant change it with google (unless things have changes in the 5 years since I last tried)Bit of a caveat - mine seems to say "on behalf of dave@domain", where as the kids/wife just says "wife@domain" (correctly)
