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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; this was later given as the official deadline.
==Controversies==
* 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.
* 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. <ref>{{cite news
| title = Email
| url = https://www.hokieprivacy.org/mail/
| work = Hokie Privacy
| accessdate = 7 October 2015
}}</ref>
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