On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:43 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Gmail is just ridiculously better than any other email client I've ever used ever, having previously progressed through Pine, elm, mutt and Thunderbird. Perhaps it's just me, but I'd guess otherwise from the number of Wikimedians with gmail,com addresses.
Well, yeah, that's why I forward my email to gmail. But I can't imagine using them for my domain's MX record. I'd want more control and flexibility than that.
As a related anecdote, the IRS recently banned gmail addresses when signing up for a preparer identification number, because Google was sending their registration password emails to the bit bucket (no, not to the spam folder, the emails were just disappearing, even if you explicitly added a filter not to send them to spam). See http://www.google.co.nz/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=4e489afd6114c49a&am...
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're reluctantly switching to GMail as the standard email solution, but we'd love to switch to an open solution in future.
Is this going to affect the mailing lists? OTRS?
Is the WMF paying for this? What are the service guarantees? I'd imagine no on the former. Being able to add the Wikimedia Foundation to the list of people who have "gone Google" will be a huge coup.