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I had been holding off on posting this, but after finally getting this to work flawlessly for me, I have decided to publish this article.
For all the different domains that I own, and all the websites that I have setup, I have always needed some form of software to be my mail server.  I used to run a few different mail server programs out of my own home, so I had greater control over the application.
Then a few years ago I was invited to the googlemail beta when it was still closed.  I had used hotmail, yahoo, and a few other free mail clients before this, but they just never seemed to interest me enough to keep using them.  Don’t get me wrong, I still have my yahoo account, but I use that as a spam address.
The biggest problem that I was facing was I needed an application that would allow for mail client usage such as Outlook Express (Microsoft Mail now), and also for web viewing, as some of the people that I was serving mail for needed to view it over the web.
I was using a program called Icewarp, and it was great, until I starting getting innudated with SPAM.  The different organizations, that I was hosting for free started to complain about receiving way too much SPAM, and asked me to decrease it.  It became a never ending battle.  So the search started.  Then I stumbled upon it… oh could this be it?  Gmail had been released for orgainzations.  Yes free and paid email solutions for all!  Upto 25 accounts was still free, and since my customers were all smaller, this was perfect!
Yes, yes it was all I needed until I got my first iPhone.  I saw all the different mail accounts I could have and I could seperate them, and be organized!  My previous Blackberry needed special apps to be able to view HTML mails, and even seperate the accounts.
Being on an exchange server at work, I was able to push emails, for my work account, and IMAP for my Gmail, and yahoo accounts.  I was in heaven!  Then in order to save the company a bit of money, I removed myself from the push server, freeing up my 1 available Exchange connection.
Then Gmail started to tease me.  They allowed for contacts and calendars to be synced through push!  I copied all my contacts from my work email, and published them into my personal gmail account.  Now I had access to all the contacts that I would ever need, and they were in my personal email.  This meant that if I was ever let go from the company, I would not scramble to get my contact data out of my work email account.  I had seen it far too often that people were let go, and I would have to disable access to their accounts.
That’s right people.  If its your work account, it doesn’t belong to you.  You might think it does, but sadly, it doesnot.  This was a great way for me to prepare incase any ever happened, I would retain my contacts, and my work email account would be clean for anyone else to look at.
Then a short while ago, Gmail allowed mail push.  Oh Happy Day!  yes that’s right, I am now able to push all my information for my gmail account in realtime to my iPhone.
Gmail for organizations has become a true leader in email services.  They are second to none, as they offer free accounts for the smaller organizations, and low cost enterprise solutions as well.  Everytime I am asked how to setup an email acount for a client, I always recommend Gmail, as the administrator is able to control the accounts, and the people in the organization can have an email address with their proper domain name rather than a @gmail.com account or a @hotmail.com.  This is much more professional looking, and its very easy to setup.
COngratulations Google for giving us yet another stunning service!

I had been holding off on posting this, but after finally getting this to work flawlessly for me, I have decided to publish this article.

For all the different domains that I own, and all the websites that I have setup, I have always needed some form of software to be my mail server.  I used to run a few different mail server programs out of my own home, so I had greater control over the application.

Then a few years ago I was invited to the Gmail beta when it was still closed.  I had used Hotmail, Yahoo, and a few other free mail clients before this, but they just never seemed to interest me enough to keep using them.  Don’t get me wrong, I still have my yahoo account, but I use that as a spam address.

The biggest problem that I was facing was I needed an application that would allow for mail client usage such as Outlook Express (Microsoft Mail now), and also for web viewing, as some of the people that I was serving mail for needed to view it over the web.

I was using a program called Icewarp, and it was great, until I starting getting innudated with SPAM.  The different organizations, that I was hosting for free started to complain about receiving way too much SPAM, and asked me to decrease it.  It became a never ending battle.  So the search started.  Then I stumbled upon it… oh could this be it?  Gmail had been released for orgainzations.  Yes free and paid email solutions for all!  Upto 25 accounts was still free, and since my customers were all smaller, this was perfect!

Yes, yes it was all I needed until I got my first iPhone.  I saw all the different mail accounts I could have and I could seperate them, and be organized!  My previous Blackberry needed special apps to be able to view HTML mails, and even seperate the accounts.

Being on an exchange server at work, I was able to push emails, for my work account, and IMAP for my Gmail, and yahoo accounts.  I was in heaven!  Then in order to save the company a bit of money, I removed myself from the push server, freeing up my 1 available Exchange connection.

Then Gmail started to tease me.  They allowed for contacts and calendars to be synced through push!  I copied all my contacts from my work email, and published them into my personal gmail account.  Now I had access to all the contacts that I would ever need, and they were in my personal email.  This meant that if I was ever let go from the company, I would not scramble to get my contact data out of my work email account.  I had seen it far too often that people were let go, and I would have to disable access to their accounts.

That’s right people.  If its your work account, it doesn’t belong to you.  You might think it does, but sadly, it doesnot.  This was a great way for me to prepare incase any ever happened, I would retain my contacts, and my work email account would be clean for anyone else to look at.

Then a short while ago, Gmail allowed mail push.  Oh Happy Day!  yes that’s right, I am now able to push all my information for my gmail account in realtime to my iPhone.

Gmail for organizations has become a true leader in email services.  They are second to none, as they offer free accounts for the smaller organizations, and low cost enterprise solutions as well.  Everytime I am asked how to setup an email acount for a client, I always recommend Gmail, as the administrator is able to control the accounts, and the people in the organization can have an email address with their proper domain name rather than a @gmail.com account or a @hotmail.com.  This is much more professional looking, and its very easy to setup.

Congratulations Google for giving us yet another stunning service!

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