[TriLUG] OT: Personal Email Vendor Selection

[Igor Partola]

The fact that the Google Apps for Domains users are second-rate when it
comes Google's latest and greatest technology is the reason why I have
igor at igorpartola.com simply forward all mail to ipartola at gmail.com. I then
had to tell GMail that ipartola at gmail.com is authorized to send email as
igor at igorpartola.com.

You lose an important feature: ipartola+anything at gmail.com still goes to me.
This way I could theoretically set up ipartola+trilug at gmail.com, and then
create custom filters based on the +trilug part. In fact I hear a lot of
people use that trick with various spam-prone services (think
ipartola+thegap at gmail.com, ipartola+outbacksteakhouse at gmail.com, etc). You
can't do this with just the Google Apps for Domains account (AFAIK at
least). You can have a catchall address, though, so you could simulate it.

Igor

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Jonathan Woodbury <jonathan at mybox.org>wrote:

> Igor, are you using Google Apps for Domains to accomplish this or just
> forwarding your mail to Gmail?  My recommendation for those who want to use
> their own domain would be to use a free Google Apps for Domains account,
> assuming you can get away with 10 users or less.  You can still archive
> your
> mail to your own server for backup purposes using IMAP.  You could even
> forgo the Gmail interface and just use your favorite IMAP client and just
> use Google for storage and queuing.
>
> The one downside to using a Google Apps for Domains account is that the
> users in that domain don't have access to any of Google's services that
> requires a profile, such as Picasa and Google+.  This probably won't be the
> case forever though.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Personally, I set up my own domain and made my address dependent on me,
> and
> > not the provider. This way if I ever get tired of using GMail (which is
> > great BTW, though I don't use POP3), I could easily switch, without
> > burdening my friends, family and professional contacts with the chore of
> > updating their address books.
> >
> > Igor
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Alan Sterger <asterger at earthlink.net
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Listers,
> > >
> > > Need some help deciding on what vendor to choose for personal email.
> > >
> > > Currently with Earthlink, due to inertia.  I've had the same email
> > address
> > > more than 11 years.  The address appears on my resume.  While I don't
> > mind
> > > paying for value (spam filtering, availability, storage, web access,
> > ...),
> > > my "threshold of pain" was reached at Earthlink's current $40 pricing.
> > >
> > > The account is POP3 with 2 free addresses, 300MB on each.  They also
> > offer
> > > web access which is rarely used, I prefer POP3 for archiving/searching
> on
> > my
> > > own machine.  One client is Eudora OSE with the other Outlook Express.
> > >
> > > How are the free POP3 email vendors, Gmail or ... ?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Alan Sterger
> > > asterger at earthlink.net
> > >
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