Has anyone experience with using Google Apps?

The server I’m currently using for my private email will be shut down soon, so I need to decide upon a future way of handling my personal email. I have low requirements, they key feature I need is a good spam filter; Google Apps can certainly provide this. Since I’m the single user, the free “standard” edition should be easily good enough.

Obviously, since I don’t have a reachable mail server myself anymore, I’d either have to rent a server just for my personal email, or use some hosted solution like Gmail, even if it is not open source.

So, did you try it? Did you return to a different solution?

  • ☹ Privacy issues of using Google
  • ☹ Free service limitations (50 acounts, sufficient for me)
  • ☺ Good spam filter
  • ☺ Good Webmail
  • ☺ High availability
  • ☺ IMAP support (at least to some extend
  • ☺ Android support - my next phone likely will be an Android device

Any points I’m missing? Email me: erich (a) debian org

Update: I have received a lot of feedback, much of which is very positive on Gmail/Google Apps for personal use.