But yes I understand.

I'm not really saying its nirvana, but things "just work".

If you want to beat down Google, fine.

I'm not taking it personal, just giving you my personal view on it.

And yes, personally, I'd rather be using GroupWise from Novell for all this crap... but you know, its just not in the cards.

Summary:
Yes you can *just* send from Google, but you should also have your domain serviced from there for mail. You can remove all mail just like any other pop service and be done with it. That way you can just manage all groups and aliases from hosted gmail.

Last word I'll say on this.