When it comes to email, there is one that stands above the rest, and that is Gmail. With the latest update in Google’s suite of email products, Gmail has improved dramatically with more features all the time. Some people say Gmail doesn’t have enough space to offer its users.
We think they’re wrong, though, as Google still has a lot more updates for Gmail. Unfortunately, many of us don’t know what Gmail got for us (G Suite Subscribers)
The features you get with Gmail differs as your G Suite pricing plan varies. If you are a G Suite Basic subscriber, you will get all the basic capabilities such as business emails, 30 GB storage, security, and basic controls.
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And if your subscription is G Suite business, you will get the appropriate features, and so will be the email features on the G Suite Enterprise plan.
However, let’s compare Gmail features across these three G Suite plans.
G Suite provides a comprehensive mail storage space for every subscriber. You can confirm that everything messages, including calendar invitations mails, shared files via drive with email, messages sent by applications, attached files, forms, and letters sent with users share notes, are stored in the vault.
And the admins can take control over the storage options by enabling or disabling it in the admin console
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email Storage | 30 GB | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Sending (size limits) | 25 MB | 25 MB | 25 MB |
| Receiving (size limits) | 50 MB | 50 MB | 50 MB |
| Recipients/message (Including to, cc, Bcc of Single email) | 2000 (500 external) | 2000(500 external) | 2000(500 external) |
| Unique recipients per day Each email address (each unique recipient) counts only once per day: 5 emails sent to 10 different addresses count as 10 unique recipients 5 emails sent to a single address count as 1 unique recipient | 3000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) | 3000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) | 3000 (2,000 external, 500 external for trial accounts) |
Note: G Suite Business or G Suite for Education accounts with fewer than 5 users get 1 TB per user
Gmail offers an additional email address for receiving mail. By adding an additional email alias, a user in an organization can get one more professional communication email. However, it won’t be as private as your primary business email.
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business email (name@ourcompany.com) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Additional Address/user (info@yourcompanyname.com) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Multiple Domain Addresses (name@add-company.com) ) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Email mailing list (admin controlled) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Email mailing list (user controlled) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
As we’ve seen in the chart, G Suite provides the same capabilities for G Suite basic, business, and enterprise plans in terms of the mail address and storage capacities except for G Suite basic storage.
Going to the advanced features such as administrative controls, security, access, and migration all these G Suite plans have a lot of in commonplace and few differences, let’s check what are those.
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Filtering Junk email & Blocking Virus | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Disable Gmail Ads | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Personalized Filtering & Content Policies | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Email Retention Policy | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Whitelisting IP Address | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Blacklisting (User Managed) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Compliance Footers (Mandatory) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Email search, eDiscovery, Retention | Add-on (Paid) | Provided | Provided |
| Gmail Data Loss Prevention (DLP) | No | No | Provided |
| Gmail Log Search (BigQuery) | No | No | Provided |
| Third-party Archiving Tool | No | No | Provided |
| Email Encryption-S/MIME | No | No | Provided |
You can access G suite across almost every browser, so Gmail as well. However, to have the best user experience, it is suggested to use an up-to-date web browser. To illustrate, you can use it in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, MS Edge, Internet Explorer, etc.
Note: Apart from Chrome, all other browsers work perfectly with G Suite but not give offline access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Sheets, and Slides. Plus, those browsers won’t offer desktop notification options.
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Phones and Tablets | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Web Browsers | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Mail and Docs Editor (Offline) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Mail Support (IMAP & POP) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| MS Outlook Support | Provided | Provided | Provided |
You can migrate emails, contacts, calendars, and files easily with G Suite. You can take the control all from your admin console. Anyway, if you are finding it difficult to handle the migration service, you can reach the G Suite service provider to get it all done in no time.
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Migration (using admin control) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Migrating Email data, contacts, calendar from webmails, notes, exchange etc. | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Migrating Email from Webmail Hosts | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Multi-user Migration from MS Exchange | Provided | Provided | Provided |
Gmail provides the administrator to enable or disable using of other desktop clients such as MS Outlook, Apple Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Outlook Express in the admin console via POP (post office protocol)/ IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol.
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enable/Disable IMAP/POP Access | Provided | Provided | Provided |
As a G Suite administrator, you can manage the emails of your company by routing and storing it as you prefer. You can enable email scanning for detecting scam messages and store it in an external server and much more.
| Feature | G Suite Basic | G Suite Business | G Suite Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email Routing (Domain and User level) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Catch-all Email Address | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Inbound Email Gateway | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Outbound Email Gateway | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Relay Server (Outbound) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
| Receive Mail (multiple POP addresses) | Provided | Provided | Provided |
I hope you got a decent idea about what exactly Gmail got for every G Suite subscriber. It more than just a platform to send and receive emails, but a great tool to organize, control, collaborate business communication with certain security.
However, if you need any help with setting up your G Suite plan or exploring the most out of this amazing business toolset, please feel free to reach us, Medha Hosting will help you at any time. We have a team of certified Google Cloud consultants who are ready 24/7, helping anyone need it.
