Having mostly recovered from our MuleCon event last week I looked at my to-do list and found that I had to be the one to setup the Google Apps Premier. After some minor difficulties (several "page not found" errors when adding accounts) I thought we were good to go. I sent out email to the team to test drive the new Google mail and we immediately realized that the site shuffles you to a non-SSL page after login. Having mostly recovered from our MuleCon event last week I looked at my to-do list and found that I had to be the one to setup the Google Apps Premier. After some minor difficulties (several “page not found” errors when adding accounts) I thought we were good to go. I sent out email to the team to test drive the new Google mail and we immediately realized that the site shuffles you to a non-SSL page after login. I am sure this is for speed but it’s a bit odd to think that corporate IT departments would suggest non-SSL browser based mail.From our internal mailing list, Andrew pointed out: Being a 2-year gmail user, I’ve been able to use the fully encrypted channel all the time via web: https://mail.google.com/mail The difference from a standard URL is that once logged in with the above URL, one **stays** in SSL mode. The default URL drops out of SSL and goes into a plain unencrypted HTTP mode. I am greatly surprised to have not found the same behavior for our new MuleSource account. None of my URL variations worked. Google groups research only revealed similar questions without any answer. It’s probably good to give their support a call (it’s free with Premier accounts) and find out what’s going on. Otherwise free gmail users are in a better position then paying customers (?!). For the moment I am going to chalk this up to a configuration issue, but it’s a big one that will prevent large customers from using these services. This is exactly why people are afraid of hosted apps. Open Source