E-mail

EDUCAUSE Library Items for E-mail

Software-as-a-Service Email Security: Risk vs. Trust

May 31, 2012

Many organizations would be interested in treating e-mail as a commodity —cutting costs and resource investments by outsourcing it to a software as a service (SaaS) provider. However, …

Leverage the Cloud + Leverage In-House + Improve Security = Save Money

January 11, 2012 | A session at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 2012

The University of Maryland in Baltimore had to replace its in-house student e-mail system. Our students wanted Google. We had concerns with security as well as compliance requirements such as HIPAA…

Forward Into the Cloud

September 30, 2009

With more students auto-forwarding e-mail to private accounts, even colleges that have not outsourced their e-mail find it difficult to keep correspondence on their own servers. …

E-Mail: In or Out?

October 30, 2008 | A session at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference

E-mail is a critical yet expensive service to maintain. Students view it as a commodity and often criticize the functionality provided by in-house solutions. Hosted e-mail vendors offer free servic…

A Solution Looking for a Problem

May 7, 2008

© 2008 Rebecca Gould and Elizabeth Unger. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License ( http://creat…

Well, if They’re Already Using It ...

October 25, 2007

College representatives at Educause conference ponder outsourcing e-mail to Google and how to embrace students’ Facebook habits. College repr…

E08 Podcast: E-Mail: In or Out?

November 25, 2008

This forty-six minute podcast features a point-counterpoint session recorded at the EDUCAUSE 2008 Annual Conference. The presentation, " E-Mail: In or Out? ," is a panel discussion on…