Buying and using a domain for email?

jayme1

thanks for all your input

leemoss wrote: »

I was surprised myself at how simple it was. The only slight issue with Google Apps accounts is at the minute you cant sign up to Google+ (if you're into social networking) with an apps account although I believe that is going to change.

yeah I've read that google apps users lag behind on any rollout of features, I have a gmail account already which I would keep for youtube, google+ ect., what I'm primarily looking for as far as google apps is concerned is email, contacts and possibly calender.

leemoss wrote: »

I always used to access my emails through outlook but over the last couple of years ive moved to cloud/web based services, ive found it far more convenient and less hassle.

yeah I would primarily access them via webmail too which is what attracted me to google apps, along with their 2 step verification (I like the added security) and also exchange activesync support which I could use on my phone.

leemos do you use google apps? if you do do you know if the + trick works? ie say your email address is name@mydomain.com if you send an email to name+mse@mydomain.com is delivered to name@mydomain.com.
as I understand google apps allows you to make 10 full user email accounts for free and also allows up to 30 aliases per user as well (though that might be limited to a total of 100 across the 10), although I could turn on 'catch all' in order to have a unique email for every different site, but I've heard that you can receive A LOT of spam doing that.

leemoss

jayme1 wrote: »

do you know if the + trick works? ie say your email address is name@mydomain.com if you send an email to name+mse@mydomain.com is delivered to name@mydomain.com.
as I understand google apps allows you to make 10 full user email accounts for free and also allows up to 30 aliases per user as well (though that might be limited to a total of 100 across the 10), although I could turn on 'catch all' in order to have a unique email for every different site, but I've heard that you can receive A LOT of spam doing that.

Neither is something ive tried, not really had a use for it. As you said turning on a 'catch all' would be a bad idea, we have it at work and the spam filter gets 1000s of spam messages a day to random @work.com addresses.
I use it for pretty much the same reasons you're planning on using it for, basically email, contacts, calendar and occasionally use documents. Having an android phone allows nice integration too.

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have gmail changed the way they do it now, i tried for a while but every message i sent via gmail would come out as
[EMAIL="me@gmail.com"]me@gmail.com[/EMAIL] on behalf of [EMAIL="me@domain.com"]me@domain.com[/EMAIL] which wasn't good, google said they would never change it as it was some security issue

leemoss

the_r_sole wrote: »

have gmail changed the way they do it now, i tried for a while but every message i sent via gmail would come out as
[EMAIL="me@gmail.com"]me@gmail.com[/EMAIL] on behalf of [EMAIL="me@domain.com"]me@domain.com[/EMAIL] which wasn't good, google said they would never change it as it was some security issue

With a Google Apps account you don't have a @gmail.com address associated with the account. The primary address is the @yourdomain.com address, which is where mail is actually delivered to/sent from. Your domain name isn't masking a gmail account with Google apps.