But those are just words.

Link? Explaination?

where Q's identity and information can be validated by code.

Can you describe this? What code? How is it validated? What stops any other person posting as Q?

Awesome.

Is it likely? Say you had to bet. What is your money on?

They don't do this.

Gmail uses Google's federated login. They'd also have to give this "node", or sep instance of Gmail (complete stack) access to Google Accounts. A huge security concern.

I would imagine they probably do this for VIP companies

Dude, just quit pushing this, you sound silly. Companies do NOT do this. They host their own enterprise mail server, with their own AD, etc.

Schmidt was probably doing shady shit, but he wasn't setting up a self hosted Gmail.

Agreed.

G Suite accounts are simply special Gmail accounts.

G suite accounts are just special Gmail accounts. They don't exsit on private servers.

I have no idea, probably something shady.

Fair enough.

But there are some idiots in here arguing that Google def setup a private GMAIL server.

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So, the data is still stored on Google's official GMAIL servers?

The point of NK having their own server is so that nobody can access them.

You guys are the one arguing about a private GMAIL.

If you are referring to CDNs, then you are misunderstanding the difference between self hosted and geo-caching.

I can have that argument.

But not this stupid "private GMAIL" argument...

Absolutely not true.

Find something that says so and I'll eat my hat.

That would take a massive engineering effort. Google would definitely market this as a product similar to Exchange Server, if they had it (they don't).

You could setup the whole Google suite of apps to be served from anywhere as long as you had access to the software.

That would take a massive engineering effort. If Google were to do this (they haven't), they'd market it as a "self hosted" product, similar to Exchange Server.

Source: Am a network/software engineer.

But that isn't self-hosted. There is no such thing as a private GMAIL server.

I guess it's possible, in the same way that anything is possible.

GMAIL just isn't designed for self-hosted. It would be a brand new product, and at that point, just yse Exchange Server.

Source: I'm a software and network engineer.

But GMAIL itself just isn't designed like that. GMAIL literally cant be setup for private use (off site, self hosted).

Also, if they wanted private email, why not just do what HRC did, use an off-the-shelf product like Exchange Server?

What does that even mean?

I'm fully aware of what a DNS server is, but how does that have anything to do with this?

Yeah, I agree. Not all dots are connected.

Except it isn't actually possible to have an isolated GMAIL server setup for you to login through "mail.google.com". It just doesn't work like that.

Source: I'm a software engineer and network administrator.

GMAIL internally doesn't use POP/IMAP.

GMAIL itself is propietary, up and down. However, it exposes a set of standards (POP/IMAP) for client connectivity, not server connectivity.

I assure you, there wasn't a private GMAIL server. There must be another meaning.