How Much Can you Trust Google With Your Email?
posted Oct 28, 2008 at 10:19:38 AM by Doug Gibson.
Like many people, I've been using Google's hosted email solution for some time. Google is pretty good at filtering spam, so (again) like many others, I let my email go to Google, have them filter the spam, and then pull it down via Thunderbird. When I notice a lull in email, I usually think something is up, and today upon logging in to the hosted email account directly, I see dozens of legitimate emails in the spam folder, including my Google Analytics report from Google themselves. Wonderful.
Now my spam folder is thousands of messages large, so it's not really a good use of time to go through them all looking for false positives, but I'll have to sample the last few days at least.
Conspiracy threories aside (I've never bought into any of the Google conspiracy theories I've heard), the question that has to be asked is at what point does a free service like this become a liability to your busniness? It's definitely made me think twice about hosting any more domain email accounts with them.
I just thought I'd warn some of you about my experience and I'd be interested in hearing if you've experience the same issue lately.
Actually I used to have mis-marked spam a lot when I was forwarding email through a few accounts here and there to trim down spam. Since I've moved my domain onto Google Apps for you Domain, I've only seen 2 mis-marked spams, and one of those was pretty close to being spam anyway. Plus I pay them for the GAfyD since it was cheaper than what I was paying before, and it removes ads from the interface plus "guarantees" uptime.