Email Setup

gord · 28 Nov 2011 at 13:14

Hi all,

Just looking for some advice really. My email setup is quite old and I want to make it better, so hopefully the information here will help others in a similar position.

I have:

my first hotmail account
my personal domain account
a gmail account

Now I forward my hotmail to my personal domain. My gmail isn't used at all apart from some testing.

What I'd like to do is use my personal domain for everything but with IMAP, and preferably with a web interface backup. So I've been looking at Google Apps and not sure whether I even need the paid for service.

Could I just forward my hotmail and personal domains to my gmail, and use gmail to send as my personal domain while using their free IMAP service? This sounds easy to setup, but then using it sounds like I would have to select the from each time, when I just want to use my personal domain address and google's infrastructure, not their domain.

What setups are others using? Any google apps users? Any help much appreciated.

Azza · 12 Dec 2011 at 12:16

Late reply, but if you've not done anything yet Gord, I'm exactly the same as you, near enough just finished setting up my personal domain using Google Apps.

Sign up to the free Google Apps here - http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

Once you've gone through all that enable 2 step verification.

Enable as it says here - http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=184711

Setup on your account as it says here - http://support.google.com/accounts/...age=guide.cs&guide=1056283&answer=185839&rd=3

Then you'll want to Enable IMAP - https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=77695&rd=2

Here is a list of supported clients and configs - https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75726&rd=2

Then sign into your clients using the application-specific passwords. Here is a guide on how to set it up - http://support.google.com/accounts/...uide=1056283&page=guide.cs&answer=185833&rd=3

That last bit is where I got confused, I was trying to sign into Thunderbird using the password I set up, but you need generate an application-specific password.

Now I just need to figure out if I can transfer my YouTube account to this new account and also my Android account. hmmmm.

gord · 12 Dec 2011 at 14:12

Cheers, I'll take a look through what you've posted.

Azza · 12 Dec 2011 at 17:45

How've you got on Gord?

Seems you can't transfer products from one account to another, unless for YouTube if you set up the account before 2009, you can unlink it and link it up to a different GMail account.

gord · 19 Dec 2011 at 16:27

Havn't had a chance to take a proper look yet. Going to migrate over xmas when I've got enough time to ensure everything is right.