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- Jeffler, on 11/15/2007, -6/+50Uhh, doesn't google show you how to do this already? Why do we need someone else posting what they tell us in the first place?
- jamesspelt, on 11/15/2007, -3/+36Best kept secret? I think not...
- dimmerswitch, on 11/15/2007, -1/+20If you get page not found, try:
http://dmiessler.com/blogarchive/how-to-migrate-yo ... - Carv, on 11/15/2007, -8/+20How did this blogspam get so many diggs? I figured most people this is relevant to would know this. It's not exactly a secret.
- zspeed78, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7I forward all my gmail accounts into one account. simple, and great.
- SovereignGFC, on 11/15/2007, -2/+9Google just owns, that's all there is to it. And you people who are like "OLD" have to remember not everyone has the command of information you do. I consider myself pretty web-savvy and computer literate but I've never heard of this procedure, although I did know about Google Apps, I didn't know it did this! Cool article.
- knuckles, on 11/15/2007, -0/+7I can vouch for zspeed. I moved all my various accounts under GMail with my own domain name and it works great. The spam filter alone was worth the effort of moving everything over to Google.
- dalaeth, on 11/15/2007, -0/+6Yeah, because your unencrypted emails flying through 20-30 connection points to get from point A to point B is very private.
- qubitz, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5Even if you have multiple domains and email addresses google apps mail is nice because you just point your MX records to google, and can receive all your email in one place.
- Firehed, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5I'm pretty sure it's well-advertised on the site. Click the "business solutions" link on the homepage, for one. Or just visit www.google.com/a. It's pretty straightforward. I've used Google Apps on at least three different domains, and all were trivially easy to set up.
- zydeco, on 11/15/2007, -0/+5...crossing through a few dozen AT&T secret closets on the way...
- happytedium, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Google tells you how to do all of this anyway, but Google Apps really is awesome. I registered a domain name (fairly cheap), set up a google apps account, redirected my MX records to google and now have free IMAP email/gmail (up to 100 accounts too) with my own domain name. XD
- Yeago, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Or you can just use POP and mess with the reply-to settings.
- inactive, on 11/15/2007, -1/+6Yeah, 350 diggs in 30 minutes because everyone already knew about it. ;)
- mediaroots, on 11/15/2007, -3/+7wait. how is this a secret? this is blatent blog spam, with stupid instructions
- verge, on 11/15/2007, -1/+5thanks ds! first time i've seen this happen on dmiessler. the submit was 12:40A, revision was @1A, appears links were not updated. thank you, again. i'd certainly change if i could.
- mrjit, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4I've been using Google Apps for awhile. Pretty nice, especially considering I'm hosting my domain for free (using a freedns site for DNS). But, they don't touch the features at all. I don't think there has been any changes/updates (at least not noticeable on the free end) the entire year I've used it. And it's extremely void of feautres. I was hoping at some point they'd do CMS intregration, etc.
- PerryMason, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4You're not wrong. They've got this search function which I reckon hardly anyone knows about.
- bashturd, on 11/15/2007, -0/+4Absolutely love the service, ran my own email server for years, switching to google for mail hosting was much much better. The fact that it is free makes it even better, though I would happily pay for the service.
- doublsh0t, on 11/15/2007, -2/+6Don't forget the one major disadvantage: privacy.
- potterboy, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Just a heads up: This doesn't work with exchange based email.
- livejamie, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3why isn't it even close? what's the difference?
- Sabotage, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Yea you can. I just did it myself, its called Domain Aliases
- Firehed, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Every bit on the internet will pass through AT&T at some point - they have more infrastructure than you can possibly imagine.
Not to mention that any email provider will have to give in to a subpoena, including your IT department at work with the Exchange server. - zspeed78, on 11/15/2007, -2/+5Google tells you exactly how to do this.
- livejamie, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3i just forward my mail to my gmail account and use aliases, seems pretty much the same
- Otto, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Uhhh.. Yes, you can do just that. They have domain aliases right in the config page. No limit on number of domains that I can see. I have 4 in there.
- binarymelon, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3You should be able to use POP, it has been available for quite some time now. Even better they have just recently added IMAP support.
- knuckles, on 11/15/2007, -0/+3Ok, well, I just checked and it seems to work with POP so I'm really behind in up-to-date news... bury me.
- vvaduva, on 11/15/2007, -2/+4This stuff is years old...not news, and Google's writeup is pretty straight forward on how to do it. I don't need a blog to explain to me how to do this; and it doesn't even explain it very well!
- raccettura, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Google's imap is just to damn slow. Not to mention the silly hierarchy [gmail] is just annoying. So close, but I couldn't bear to make the switch.
- fak3r, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2change this: "How to migrate your Domain Email to Google... and maintain Your Address"
to this: "How to get 100s of diggs...post old instructions and include Google in the title!" - scottc, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2I host email for thousands of my clients' domains, but I moved my company domains to Gmail in April 06 and have never looked back. It is far superior to what we sell. The spam filtering is nearly perfect and if your domain is on a shared web server then moving your mail to Gmail will solve the occasional spam blacklist problem that happens when one of the other domains on your server sends spam.
- knuckles, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2I have 2 domains under my account. Easy as pie.
- darnit, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2FTA:
"Silly Google uptime
Silly Google speed"
....wtf? - dijital, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Um... Actually... SMTP = Simple Mail TRANSFER PROTOCOL
- Firehed, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2What's slow about Google's IMAP? Of course it'll take a while the first time when you have to download 8000 messages, but I get messages immediately with the right settings (with a little "push" hack, my phone gets test messages within a second or two of my having sent it)
- expatcatalyst, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Hey I'm 51 and you are spot on! lol
- akash8m, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Here they have instructions for specific domain e-mail transfer.
http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answ ... - bearsinthesea, on 11/15/2007, -0/+2Right, but as long as they aren't storing them all, they only have access to one at a time. Your entire mailbox on google is much more valuable, and more of a security/privacy risk.
There are plugins for firefox to do gmail encryption, but getting anyone else you email with to use encryption is hard. Google shouldhave integrated encryption. - iViper, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Shame you can't have HTML signatures though
- djmaverick, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1I switched all of my domains. It works great. I don't know if it is a "secret."
- fak3r, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1True that, that's why ATT need to be held accountable so others won't roll over for the NSA and give up our rights for us. Follow along at home kids, they're your rights (for now!) It's ongoing, plenty to read and learn, then contact your representatives and start screaming:
http://www.eff.org/cases/att - bearsinthesea, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Actually I was looking all over google's pages last night for this info, but couldn't find it.
I also read something hinting google might host your web page. Is this one of their services yet? - gdgi, on 11/15/2007, -2/+3the question that no one's asking is 'why the ***** would you do this?'
seriously, you want google (and whoever else) reading, storing, and worst of all - commercializing - your personal communication?
Seems that everyone forgets why google does everything it does - and the answer isn't just because their nice nerds. they do it so they can continue to make billions of dollars off of your personal information, whether it's searches, email or otherwise.
Why anyone would willingly submit to this I just don't understand. - dijital, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Obviously this is new to the people digging it... Why don't you just IGNORE it instead of taking the time to let everybody know that YOU have already seen this. Morons...
- ycohain, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1I used to work for a domain name registrar and it's a big fear over there that one day google will start sending lots of traffic to their apps for domain names and they'll take away all the revenue my company used to make for email solutions and starter page websites since google's products are much better in quality and are absolutely free.
- TypeEE, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1hierarchy? If you are using Thunderbird, there is an advance setting under "Server settings->Advanced", change IMAP server directory from blank to [Gmail], then you won't see [gmail] again. It'll be flat like regular inbox
- fak3r, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1I think that fear is well justified. If you look at how well Google does with Spam filtering alone they win. I've had the same main email address for 8 years, I prob get 1-2 spams a week in my inbox, with an untold amount (currently over 10,000) in my Spam folder. I used to run my own mailserver, with its own spam fighting abilities and webmail via SSL for checking, but it was just too much to keep up; Google has struck gold on this.
Having said that, I can't believe some other company out there wouldn't be able to duplicate the spam filtering, and then just improve upon the email UI (Roundcube anyone?) I thought Zimbra would be this one, but they're going more for corporate and sm business, plus now Yahoo owns them and will brush them to the back of the bus quickly (sorry, my confidence in them is gone). -
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