Email Nirvana

I've now transferred all our email setups completely to gmail/google apps for your domain, and am using their IMAP services as well, rather than POP3. It is all totally brilliant (especially with Thunderbird) Now we can use multiple accounts easily via "traditional" email client software (but across multiple PCs) and webmail, and mobile mail from our phones/PDAs (using the Google Java mail apps) and the whole thing stays automagically synchronised. What's been received, read, sent, deleted, moved, filed, whatever. Brilliant. All mail stays on the server (6GB inbox limit and rising), so no worries with needing to back it up (although, I do still do it weekly, but that's another story, involving POP3 and Jungledisk...). Only thing is you've got to trust Google...

Still also using Bigfoot addresses for some incoming, but it gets routed to Gmail.

Oh, and the spam filtering is really, really good in my experience, too. So I no longer need to use popfile, very good though it was. And all communication with Google is encrypted both ways, which is a bit of a privacy/security bonus (again, you've gotta trust Google though). Obviously if you send unencrypted emails (who doesn't?) then they can still be read by ISPs (though obviously not my ISP!), three letter agencies, four letter agencies, all kinds of people en-route, but hey.