[Lunatic Fringe]

swarmed by spam due to their ancient age

You need to fire your IT guys. Spam can easily be filtered on any email system, yes even Microsoft Exchange. We use Exchange and after I purchased and installed Brightmail, our rate of spam hitting the Inbox dropped significantly.

[kingu]

You need to fire your IT guys. Spam can easily be filtered on any email system, yes even Microsoft Exchange. We use Exchange and after I purchased and installed Brightmail, our rate of spam hitting the Inbox dropped significantly.

Absolutely, fired the folks who maintained our servers when we no longer had any need for them anymore. We've had a 98% reduction in spam in the inbox and four false positives out of 193,000 e-mails (last month's statistics.) We use Gmail's POP interface to download then delete our e-mail off of their system (like anything is ever deleted off their mines..)

Aside from the five minutes to set everything up, and an hour or two a week for the first couple weeks ensuring we didn't get false positives on the spam filter, it has been pure and absolute pleasure. If tomorrow Google popped up with a demand for payment for future services, I'd gladly fork over the dough.

Someone else disliked the gmail interface - no need to use it. Set up your favorite e-mail program and use it instead.