Comments on: Google Apps for your domain http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/08/08/google-apps-for-your-domain/ Gentoo Linux - Asterisk Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:53:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: angelo http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/08/08/google-apps-for-your-domain/#comment-27 angelo Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:38 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/08/08/google-apps-for-your-domain/#comment-27 The <a href="http://www.google.com/a/" title="Google Apps for your Domain" rel="nofollow">Google Apps for your Domain</a> has to be the most ideal set of web applications any web 2.0 type start up business would need. We at <a href="www.rawvoice.com" title="RawVoice" rel="nofollow">RawVoice</a> use it extensively. We are still using the free standard edition but we may soon switch to the Premier Edition. We had a situation where one of the partners deleted all of the financial E-mail when he resigned. Now that Google owns Postini, we are hoping they offer the E-mail backup service at a significant discount when combined with the $50 per year fee. Before we started using Google Apps, we were using Groove in order to synchronize our documents and spreadsheets and we had to manage our own Qmail E-mail server. Since we also use our server for web hosting, moving the E-mail off of that server was a no brainer. Once Google added the Writely service to Google Spreadsheets (now known as Google Docs), we quickly made the transition to Google Docs. I can't explain how frustrating Groove was, I am just glad I don't have to use it anymore. I am not sure if Google is using Qmail or not, but Gmail uses the same Qmail features. One of the most useful feature is the login+string. With Gmail and Qmail, you can take your login portion of your E-mail address and add a "+anything" to it. e.g. login+mailinglist1@gmail.com for signing up to mailing lists that you are afraid may end up sending you SPAM. It is quite useful, even for advertising campaigns or other E-mail tracking. The Google Apps for your Domain has to be the most ideal set of web applications any web 2.0 type start up business would need. We at RawVoice use it extensively. We are still using the free standard edition but we may soon switch to the Premier Edition. We had a situation where one of the partners deleted all of the financial E-mail when he resigned. Now that Google owns Postini, we are hoping they offer the E-mail backup service at a significant discount when combined with the $50 per year fee.

Before we started using Google Apps, we were using Groove in order to synchronize our documents and spreadsheets and we had to manage our own Qmail E-mail server. Since we also use our server for web hosting, moving the E-mail off of that server was a no brainer. Once Google added the Writely service to Google Spreadsheets (now known as Google Docs), we quickly made the transition to Google Docs. I can’t explain how frustrating Groove was, I am just glad I don’t have to use it anymore.

I am not sure if Google is using Qmail or not, but Gmail uses the same Qmail features. One of the most useful feature is the login+string. With Gmail and Qmail, you can take your login portion of your E-mail address and add a “+anything” to it. e.g. login+mailinglist1@gmail.com for signing up to mailing lists that you are afraid may end up sending you SPAM. It is quite useful, even for advertising campaigns or other E-mail tracking.

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