As an architecture firm we had a great deal of problems with spam. I decided that the best solution was to forward all the company email to individual gmail accounts. Then I setup each computer's Outlook to download their email from gmail. Spam was reduced by 90%, our mail is fully backup, office email can be checked at home, and we haven't seen a virus yet. Gmail does not accept .exe files. Everyone in office is thrilled to use gmail in this manner.

Your welcome. There was little to no debate or apprehension to route the company email through gmail. What made it easy was the main architect had heard of gmail and liked what he heard. When I brought it up to the team, they were all for it. We knew we had to do something to solve the issue and it had to be low budget. I ran beta testing on my account only for a week to see how gmail would handle. I cut beta testing short because I was overwhelm with requests to do something. They were getting tired of the spam. One of the architects wants me to show him how to do it for his home email.

Another important thing that we like about routing our company email through gmail. One of the computers had their outlook go crazy and it would not send or recieve. No problem, use gmail through firefox until I can solve the issue. Company keeps running with little downtime.

As for the gmail to manage our domain, to be honest, I heard about this first from your site. I will look into it further, but I am unsure how it could coexist with our current ISP. If we found it to be as benifical as our current gmail, I think we would use it.