google-hosted gmail for your domain
I have been testing the new gmail "google apps for your domain" service for some months now with great results. Although, when I first switched over, the service was down for a day or so and I panicked. Mail was being returned to senders and I thought I had made a big mistake.
I have been testing the new gmail “google apps for your domain” service for some months now with great results. Although, when I first switched over, the service was down for a day or so and I panicked. Mail was being returned to senders and I thought I had made a big mistake. I temporarily went back to my normal mail server, but the amount of spam the filters were not catching was too much to bear. So, I went back to hosted gmail and haven’t had a problem since. I tried to keep my domains mail server as a backup server, but then all of my client’s email (on the same server) defaulted to server – so I bit the bullet and deleted the backup mail server settings.
The only issue I have had thus far is the inability to use the gmail notifier for my domain email. But today, I found a new handy piece of software, the hosted gmail client. This is a mini-browser that sits in your taskbar, auto loads your hosted gmail, and has shortcut buttons to inbox, create mail, addresses, settings – for those people more familiar with a desktop application. I like it because my email is not lost in the 20 browser windows I have open at any given time. It’s a barebones program at this point, but hopeful google will add gmail notifier functionality to the client app.
The other thing I like about using gmail for my work email is the handy tool to find out where your spam is coming from. Anytime you comment or signup on a website, you can use a “custom” email address tailored to that site. Something like myname+wordpress[at]mydomain.com anything u put after the plus sign will get delivered normally to your email account – and you can use it to filter or identify incoming mail. Very cool.
Google also offers other free services branded with your domain name… google talk, google calendar and google page creator. The service is stil beta, so you have to sign up with your google account and wait to “be invited” – but it’s worth the wait.
hey dude. I recently signed up with google apps for your
domain and created a few email accounts as well.
but what is the URL for gmail from domain – microappli.com. — I tried a few combinations but don’t know — can you tell what it is since you’ve been using it for some time now.. thanks sourabh
it should be http://mail.google.com/a/microappli.com but it doesnt look like it is enabled for this domain.
I’ve been using “gmail for you domain” for a while now but I’d never heard of the ‘hosted gmail client’. So far I’ve been using Google Talk as my notification client.
its a pretty cool idea – but it is not as good as the taskbar gmail notifier.
I just installed the firefox extension – gmail notifier – but I would rather have it in my taskbar and not have to open a new tab in firefox for it.
What do you mean that you use google talk as your notification client? I haven’t heard of that.
Interesting, I hadn’t heard about this client either. I’ve been App For Domaining for a while too and I still haven’t found a good way get notified about all my accounts. I’m fine with going to each individual page to read the full text, but Google Notifier only works with one at a time. It’d be great if they’d roll out a multiple account notifier.
Very nice article.
There is a problem with Google Domains that I didn’t have with Godaddy. Due to the way Google Domains handles the mail headers, many times you cannot figure out to WHICH address you were sent a junk mail message. For instance, we use addresses like cnet.com@confusionists.com, but we can’t always figure out (even looking at the ‘full’ message headers) to which email the junk that arrives in the catch-all was sent. With Godaddy, that information was always in the headers.
Though on the other hand, Godaddy rejected mail from known domains like u.washington.edu because they were on a spam blacklist. You can’t win ‘em all, apparently.
I’ll be checking out http://code.google.com/p/hosted-gmail-client/ and the Google Talk client, too.
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