OT - Google Hosted Email

Anyone out there using Google's hosted email? I've set up one account and was going to recommend it to a client but I haven't had enough experience with it to be 100% sure. Cheers. Adrian Lynch http://www.adrianlynch.co.uk/

i use it for all my domains. so far nothing but love. -- jonese http://www.jonese.us http://twitter.com/jonese ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Was one of the best tech decisions we made! Great stuff. J.J. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

It Rocks.  Your going to wonder why you didn't do it sooner.  We have been on for over a year and I can barely remember the days of purchasing spam filtering software, trying to keep a web interface up,and worrying about backing up.  That doesn't even touch the user side of it (searching and storage mainly) that you are probably already familiar with. The list of pluses is huge. ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I would recommend Gmail to retrieve your email *not hosted* on Google as well. Period. e.g. I have had the same email address since '99. I am sure it made it on every spammers list there is. I used to get over run with spam... we are talking thousands a day. Even with server side black lists and and spampal on the client, I would get *at least* 100+ spams in my in box daily and thousands more in my spam folder. It took 45 min to over an hour just to download my mail over dial up if I was using spampal (spampal had to ping the black list servers for each email). Now I get one or two spams in my inbox *a month*, if that... and maybe a 100 in the spam folder. All hail the Geek Gods of Google. G On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:07 PM, David Mineer <mineer@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:49 PM, Gerald Guido <gerald.guido@gmail.com> wrote: > I would recommend Gmail to retrieve your email *not hosted* on Google as > well. Period. and why would that be? i've hosted my personal domain's email on google for a year now, and couldn't be happier.  zero worry, zero cost, 6 gigs of storage, spam filtering.... is there any particular reason you're actively recommending against it? -- Evelyn the dog, having undergone further modification pondered the significance of short-person behaviour in pedal depressed, pan-chromatic resonance, and other highly ambient domains. "Arf," she said.

I think you misinterpreted  what I was trying say. Let me try again: > I would recommend Gmail to retrieve your email,  *even for* accounts  *not hosted* on Google as > well. I use gmail to get email for accounts that don't use googles mail servers. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Charlie Griefer <charlie.griefer@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Gerald Guido <gerald.guido@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Gotcha.  yeah, I misinterpreted.  I thought you were saying to use gmail, but *not* use google mail for hosted domains (and wondered why, or whether or not you had a bad experience with it). We're on the same page now :) -- Evelyn the dog, having undergone further modification pondered the significance of short-person behaviour in pedal depressed, pan-chromatic resonance, and other highly ambient domains. "Arf," she said.

Second to fending off hackers (crackers actually), Email was always the next worst part of hosting. Nothing but headaches. I do not miss that *at all*. Google mail is a God Send. G P.S. Arf indeed. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Charlie Griefer <charlie.griefer@gmail.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- -- "The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." - Albert Einstein

I'm wondering if GMail could be my saviour here too. I have a simple mail system where the client can setup mail 'templates' and choose to send that email to a client - macros they define get replaced by name, etc. Would this kind of thing be doable? I.e. can I use a google api to create email bodies, etc? Dominic -- Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk

----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Dominic, It sounds like we are doing something remarkably similar and it has definitely been the most unpleasant part of my entire project.  It would be great to switch everything over to a Gmail domain if it would work.   Just curious, Are all the clients in your scenario registered email users of your domain?  

> Just curious, Are all the clients in your scenario registered email users of your domain? No - and yeh, email has been the least enjoyable part of the project; all sorts of trouble! Dominic -- Blog it up: http://fusion.dominicwatson.co.uk

Google apps rules, we use it for about a dozen domains and about 25 users and it works like a dream, even for those older staff members who insist on keeping with outlook! I still haven't got around to re-purposing the old linux mail server though! -- Jay

> Anyone out there using Google's hosted email? > > I've set up one account and was going to recommend it to a > client but I haven't had enough experience with it to be > 100% sure. I strongly recommend Google Apps for Your Domain. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Training: Adobe/Google/Paperthin Certified Partners http://training.figleaf.com/ WebManiacs 2008: the ultimate conference for CF/Flex/AIR developers! http://www.webmaniacsconference.com/