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imported>Matthazinski: Created page with "In 2012, Virginia Tech's Computing Center officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all `@vt.edu` [[ma..."

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In 2012, Virginia Tech's [[Computing Center]] officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all <code>@vt.edu</code> [[mail]], after planning the change for some time. In July 2012, the service became officially released and all users could switch at their convenience. November 2012 has been given as an estimate for the forced transition to Google Apps, although no date has been set.

==Controversies==
* Users that forward their mail to another account must manually set up forwarding through Google's interface, which retains forwarded messages for at least 30 days in the trash folder. This can cause privacy and security concerns.
* Due to [[w:ITAR|ITAR]] regulations, many students and faculty doing government research are unable to use Google mail services, as they have not yet been confirmed to be ITAR-compliant.
* Gmail uses a non-standard IMAP interface, in which "tags" are used instead of a standard directory structure. This means that when users attempt to delete a message in IMAP, it will actually only remove the tag and will be difficult to find. Actually deleting messages requires moving them to the trash folder, where they will be deleted after 30 days
* Some users are unhappy that they must use a separate mail password from their PID password.
* Users are limited to 25 GB of storage for their mail and documents.

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 * Users with existing Google accounts using a VT email address are forced to move or merge their existing accounts due to a namespace conflict.
 * One network liasion has reported several users encountering issues when transferring locally-stored mail in large batches. Apparently, depending on the mail client and number of messages, Gmail may time out and permanently lose all messages that were not successfully transferred.
-* Virginia Tech's mail relays do not support STARTTLS, so all incoming mail is unencrypted in transit.
+* Virginia Tech's mail relays do not support STARTTLS, so all incoming mail is unencrypted in transit. <ref>{{cite news
 | title       = Email
 | url         = https://www.hokieprivacy.org/mail/

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 * Users with existing Google accounts using a VT email address are forced to move or merge their existing accounts due to a namespace conflict.
 * One network liasion has reported several users encountering issues when transferring locally-stored mail in large batches. Apparently, depending on the mail client and number of messages, Gmail may time out and permanently lose all messages that were not successfully transferred.
 ==External links==

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-In 2012, Virginia Tech's [[Computing Center]] officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all <code>@vt.edu</code> [[mail]], after planning the change for some time. In July 2012, the service became officially released and all users could switch at their convenience. According to an internal email circulated to [[4Help]] employees, the tentative date for forced migration is November 12, 2012.
+In 2012, Virginia Tech's [[Computing Center]] officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all <code>@vt.edu</code> [[mail]], after planning the change for some time. In July 2012, the service became officially released and all users could switch at their convenience. According to an internal email circulated to [[4Help]] employees, the tentative date for forced migration is November 12, 2012; this was later given as the official deadline.
 ==Controversies==
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 * Some users have previously reported that a third-party Gmail extension is enabled by default which scans the text of users' email messages. This is contradictory to the VT Mail policy of not having VT email mined for data by third parties.
 * Users with existing Google accounts using a VT email address are forced to move or merge their existing accounts due to a namespace conflict.
 ==External links==

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	* http://www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaTech/comments/11psjj/does_anyone_know_when_the_deadline_is_to_switch/		* http://www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaTech/comments/11psjj/does_anyone_know_when_the_deadline_is_to_switch/
	* http://going.google.vt.edu/		* http://going.google.vt.edu/
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-In 2012, Virginia Tech's [[Computing Center]] officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all <code>@vt.edu</code> [[mail]], after planning the change for some time. In July 2012, the service became officially released and all users could switch at their convenience. November 2012 has been given as an estimate for the forced transition to Google Apps, although no date has been set.
+In 2012, Virginia Tech's [[Computing Center]] officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all <code>@vt.edu</code> [[mail]], after planning the change for some time. In July 2012, the service became officially released and all users could switch at their convenience. According to an internal email circulated to [[4Help]] employees, the tentative date for forced migration is November 12, 2012.
 ==Controversies==
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 * Some users are unhappy that they must use a separate mail password from their PID password.
 * Users are limited to 25 GB of storage for their mail and documents, but this is still an improvement over the existing system where mail expired after 30 days.

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 ==Controversies==
 * Users that forward their mail to another account must manually set up forwarding through Google's interface, which retains forwarded messages for at least 30 days in the trash folder. This can cause privacy and security concerns.
-* Due to [[w:ITAR|ITAR]] regulations, many students and faculty doing government research are unable to use Google mail services, as they have not yet been confirmed to be ITAR-compliant.
+* Due to [[w:ITAR|ITAR]] regulations, many students and faculty doing government research are unable to use Google mail services, as they are not ITAR-compliant.
-* Gmail uses a non-standard IMAP interface, in which "tags" are used instead of a standard directory structure. This means that when users attempt to delete a message in IMAP, it will actually only remove the tag and will be difficult to find. Actually deleting messages requires moving them to the trash folder, where they will be deleted after 30 days
+* Gmail uses a non-standard IMAP interface, in which "tags" are used instead of a standard directory structure. This means that when users attempt to delete a message in IMAP, it will actually only remove the tag and will be difficult to find. Actually deleting messages requires moving them to the trash folder, where they will be deleted after 30 days,
 * Some users are unhappy that they must use a separate mail password from their PID password.
-* Users are limited to 25 GB of storage for their mail and documents.
+* Users are limited to 25 GB of storage for their mail and documents, but this is still an improvement over the existing system where mail expired after 30 days.

Going Google - Revision history

imported>Matthazinski at 23:23, 7 February 2015

imported>Matthazinski at 23:23, 7 February 2015

imported>Matthazinski at 19:09, 24 October 2012

imported>Matthazinski at 06:42, 22 October 2012

imported>Matthazinski at 04:11, 22 October 2012

imported>Mutantmonkey at 22:52, 16 October 2012

imported>Matthazinski: Created page with "In 2012, Virginia Tech's Computing Center officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all @vt.edu [[ma..."

imported>Matthazinski: Created page with "In 2012, Virginia Tech's Computing Center officially announced that the university would be eventually migrating all users to Google Apps for all `@vt.edu` [[ma..."