Google Mail business account

[Robert Lambie]

ive been using google business for a couple of years now. cant beat it!

you can easily import you contact database.
but i doubt much else. but i could be wrong there…

apparently google business and the free one work on completely two different platforms or two different hosts under the google umbrella actually run it. my reply here is a bit ropey i know, but i vaguely remember looking at some news reports and Q&A’s…

Gmail & Googlemail.com i believe is run to find all the glitches and spam workarounds within their mail system. Google business is their "all singing all dancing" version…

I get virtually zero spam email… yes it comes in, but you never know about it because its directly into the spam folder. its excellent…
i probably get one single spam email per month and you just click "this is spam" and its never seen again.
there is no need to send these bulk emails out to confirm folks ligit email addresses and the like to prevent spam. it just doesnt come in.

it also integrates and sinqs with my blackberry.
has its own word doc, PDF openers, and all else… you can also do away with the google extension and run your own domain name.

for £25 per year, it certainly gets my thumbs up!

[Warren Beard]

Thanks Rob, I remember you telling me you had this and I just don’t really want to have all my emails on a different address but might be worth it anyway.

Searching for the details on Google has been no help either only that people want to import emails and it’s not that easy. I currently have an email forwarder set up so I can use an info@….. address but yes when it replies it also says googlemail which would also be nice to get rid of. My emails have been down for 36 hours so far as my host is down and emails are not being forwarded and are getting lost in an email vortex of nothingness.

I suppose the sooner the better if I’m going to do it.

Cheers

Warren

[Robert Lambie]

yeh, trying to improve on my emails, is something i have tried over and over again whilst running UKSB.

when google brought out this at first i looked over it and thought, if this lot cant get it right, who can! :lol1: at £25 per year its dirt cheap.

the facilities within the account is constantly being added to. little things here and there, but make it even better to use.
i keep everything online these days… so i can access my mail, servers etc all remotely and from anywhere in the world. the fact i can do this with emails alone is a god send… my blackberry sinq’d with google just adds as another bonus. before that the likes of outlook express was used along with BT, Virgin etc and they are just crap in comparison…

the only thing i didnt like is that things like igoogle and the like dont bolt onto it either. nor do instant message notifications work with it… this is why i mentioned "i dont think you will be able to upgrade as such" because Google business appears to be a complete stand alone platform.

however, i did find a program for the instant message "you got mail" notification just recently. so if you need it let me know and ill get you the link. its the only one i am aware of, but although basic, works very well…

[Warren Beard]

Thanks Rob and yes please send me the notifier as I think I will upgrade, I’ll just have to go back and forth for a while until I don’t need the old emails, I did it once before when I changed business names so know what it’s like.

Thanks Rob

Cheers

Warren

[Warren Beard]

All sorted now, business account set up and it’s propagated already and the best news is most (if not all) the emails over the last 2 days are coming through so might not have lost anything.

My notifier also works Rob so no need to send that download thanks.

All happy again and very relieved, lets hope it’s the end of that and also I will look much more professional as it won’t say Google mail in the address anymore which is a bonus.

Cheers

Warren

[Robert Lambie]

sounds great mate, well done and thanks for letting me know on the migration…

are you definitely sure about the notifier? if so, which one are you using?
i read allot of reports saying none were compatible and google business email and google hadn’t released one yet, but that’s not saying one hasn’t been since of course.

getting your domain name to be registered by google is a little technical, but not over the top. i think i followed the video tutorial you will find in the help pages. its not long winded, just needs to be right and im not to techy and i managed, so cant be that hard. :lol1:

business accounts also allow you to brand your email account using your own logo to replace theres when your logging in. using your own logo, looks allot better i think…

[Jason Xuereb]

We use Google Business Services. Fantastic. Email on the browser, iphone, blackberry, desktop can’t beat it.

We migrated about two years worth of emails took a while but worked great.

Anyone know how to get your signature to appear above the quoted email when replying to emails from the web interface?

[Warren Beard]

I already had notifier for my free Google account, I just changed the login details to the new account and it worked.

I have already imported all my filters which also created most of my labels which was great so I just did the balance of my labels manually, it has been importing all my old emails for the last 10 hours and still going 😕

I didn’t have a problem getting my domain registered, I just created a new html page and pasted the supplied text inside and saved, Google checks automatically and was done, about 20 minutes later (after I updates the MX records) the new account was working.

I like the idea of the logo so will have to look in to that next but am out all day today on a 5hour drive round trip 😕

cheers

Warren

[Robert Lambie]

quote Jason Xuereb:

Anyone know how to get your signature to appear above the quoted email when replying to emails from the web interface?

not sure i follow 100% jason, but…
when you reply to an email, (which google tag, "conversation") for the first time… it automatically adds your signature.
but as each email reply happens, it just adds the conversation history below it, rather than a signature every reply. so the signature is there on first reply, but after say 5 replys to same conversation the signature will be found right at the bottom.

hope thats what you mean? :lol1:

thanks for the feedback on the notifier warren… this must have been updated only recently because i searched on numerous occasions and even on google pages. the feedback was generally folk annoyed at there not being a responder as such. i then found one but not created by google.

[Warren Beard]

Use the Labs to customise your google account, it is excellent and does many things, there’s a lot of rubbish stuff but some good ones like;

Insert signature at top when replying

Warn if you forgot an attachment (if you mention attach in email message but don’t have one attached it will ask you to check)

Change order of titles so snippets are easier to read

quote text settings

send and archive in one button

and my best is the cancel email feature, it waits 5 seconds after you hit send before it send and in this time you can cancel which puts the message in to your drafts so you can edit it, how many times do you hit send and then as you hit it remember something you left off?

Check them out if you haven’t already

It didn’t come up as standard when I set up the business account and you need to activate it in your email profile (Personal Google Apps page) click on allow Apps for users, it adds an extra tab called "Labs" in your mail settings.

cheers

Warren

[Robert Lambie]

yeh i have some of those already installed.
the attachment notice is good, as is the "cancel sending" function etc etc
i dont like the news snippets and stuff, prefer to keep my mail account just as that, rather than having news flashes etc when i should be working. :lol1:

the calendar is good too when combined with your phone. means you get constant reminders as and when needed when your out on the go.

my only gripe is that when i get my mail to my phone, it then appears as having "been read" in my account when i get back to my pc. i can click mark as unread from my phone, but would prefer that as a default. maybe there is now and ive over looked it, but there wasnt before. :lol1: