On Tue, 2022-06-21 at 10:49 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > After several years of tightening budgets and losing support staff > (for context, this was in Venezuela) I managed to persuade the > university to abandon our central mail server > and adopt Google as our provider. > > Best decision I ever made. The system now works, has great spam > control, and virtually no direct support cost aside from our own help > desk. Best of all, as a university we got it all for nothing. > [Comments on Google's world domination will be disregarded - I've > heard them all]. When Microsoft heard we were about to do this, they > rushed in with a counter offer. Luckily we kept our heads and have > not regretted it.
I can think of few things worse than depending on Microsoft, they've never grasped the idea of good software. About my only concern, these days, about Gmail is that it's a horrible interface. But you can bypass that by using a real email client. One of the things about scholastic mail is that most students already have an email address, and making them have another (yours) is a pain to them. And, when they leave, they have to abandon it, and may not want to. So that's another argument to favour external mail. Of course, Microsoft being an expensive never-ending cost versus Gmail being a free thing looks good to the bean counters. But existing IT staff won't want to lose one of their cash cows. You could go entirely the other way. Become a commercial email provider that people in the outside world pay for, using that to fund your internal IT needs. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.66.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 16:02:34 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
