Does anyone use Google Mail for their domain?

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Until now, I've had my mail going through my host and not had a problem. After setting up a couple of unhosted domains to use Google Apps yesterday, I'm wondering about switching all my mail over to Google. From what I can see, I'll get more storage, better spam protection (not that I get any at the moment) and use of things like the Google Mail app for my phone.

I have Thunderbird set up at the moment and would continue to use Thunderbird when at my computer, I'm not doing it for the web-based element, but that would be useful when elsewhere.

Just wondering what other people's views are really? :)
 
Yeah, Googlemail for domains is a really great application.

Only thing to consider if you're doing it for a business domain is a) there is no SLA - if it was ever down or didn't work for you for whatever reason, google aren't bound to fix it within a timescale or with financial penalties. b) I'm unsure of Google's privacy policy with regards to your emails and the content of the emails.
 
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It's not business, it's personal and there's nothing particularly private in there.

How would it cope if I had another domain pointing to my hosting? With Google the domain is registered, is there the ability to add an alias in a similar way to parking a domain?

That maybe doesn't make sense, let me know if so.
 
Sounds interesting. How does it work, set your name servers to google's? Possible to use Google app for mail and still have all other traffic (http etc) still coming into my machine?

Just at the moment I have my mail server, and it fowards all my mail to my google account anyway. Can you setup gmail account to retrieve email from your google app domain account thingy and display it in your normal gmail?

sorry that probably makes no sense what so ever! :o
 
You can direct your MX records to them and any mail to your account will be handled by them, leaving HTTP and everything else still going to where it was previously.
 
Yeah just my allllec.co.uk (all services are down on it at the moment, apart from mail).

It'll all be back up and running when I get this new computer through the post.

The mail is only serves 2 purposes. 1 of which is for my ocuk email. The other is for mates wanting to send stupidly large attachments to each other. (Don't ask me why the don't just use WLM). Anyway, they can stuff off - They hardly use it and just slows internet down to a crawl when they are doing it.

So i figure i just setup gmail apps. That way I don't have to run a mail server just for 100~ emails a day from ocuk. Then i'll just set it up to foward to my regular email gmail address.
 
I've got hosting and space isn't really an issue there, but I'm just thinking it'll be easier to use Google for it.

Can anybody give me pointers as to Google handling multiple domains?

Found it, it would appear you can: http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=53295&hl=en_GB

Magic, so I can park my new domain with my hosting and send the mail onto the Google Apps account :)
 
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One final thing before I switch over, changing the MX records won't cause my existing e-mails on the host's server to be removed will they? That sounds silly now I've just said it, but I don't want to lose a year's worth of e-mails :p
 
Nope, It will just stop the current mail server from retrieving anymore. It doesn't actually effect the server because all it does is send mail to your domain off in a different 'direction' if you like.



All setup and verified etc etc and it's all good. Speed is a lot quicker than running my own server. And now I have no real reason to have the computer on 24/7. So it's win win.

ta

alec
 
Right, I'll do it later then. Thunderbird will become briefly very complicated while I'm switching things over... :)
 
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