Advantages vs. Disadvantages of sending email through Google/Gmail instead of from my server

Question

I've read a lot of questions on stack about people who want to change their mail classes (i.e. swiftmailer) to send the emails with SMTP using their Google Apps server/email address.

The only real benefit to this that I can see is that a copy is placed in Gmail's sent folder. I overcome this currently (without SMTP) by just BCCing an email from my server to keep copies of everything that goes out (i.e. [email protected]).

Does sending through Gmail's SMTP server help with Spam or that annoying "Google doesn't think this was sent by this server"? Is there anything else I'm overlooking?

Thanks all.

(and yes, my domain is a hosted by Google Apps for email/calendar/etc... the MX records are all set and functional).

Answer 1

Emails are under all kinds of anti-spam scrutiny by major email providers. By sending them through Google you can probably use the work that Google has already done.

See this article: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html

You may also consider using a service like PostageApp.