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#1 2008-12-19 12:55 pm
- ame
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Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
As a backup plan to transferring my whole domain/site elsewhere, I am considering getting googleapps for business to move my email off my site's server (since I don't actually own the server) and provide the IMAP I want, plus easier email reading at work or on the go.
Anyone have any experience with this? Worth the $50 a year?
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#2 2008-12-19 2:06 pm
- Booksley
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Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
I didn't like the IMAP handling honestly. It creates folders for each tag, and a whole bunch of what I consider unecessary folders.
Create a gmail address, send some email to it, then setup your email client of choice as IMAP and you'll see.
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#3 2008-12-19 2:12 pm
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Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
Ok yea I don't need that. More than likely I won't create folders ON the web app. I might on my computer at home but that's because Ill set it to remove from server after download, which is what I do already anyway.
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#4 2008-12-20 8:37 am
Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
Booksley wrote:
I didn't like the IMAP handling honestly. It creates folders for each tag, and a whole bunch of what I consider unecessary folders.
Create a gmail address, send some email to it, then setup your email client of choice as IMAP and you'll see.
There's a setting in Google Labs that lets you hide labels in IMAP. Works like a charm. With some work, you can make GMail (and this Google Apps mail) behave just like a regular IMAP server.
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#5 2008-12-20 10:47 am
- Booksley
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Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
ame wrote:
Ok yea I don't need that. More than likely I won't create folders ON the web app. I might on my computer at home but that's because Ill set it to remove from server after download, which is what I do already anyway.
Wait, you use IMAP, but you delete from the server anyways? Doesn't that remove the main point of IMAP, that your email can be accessed anywhere? 
Alien wrote:
There's a setting in Google Labs that lets you hide labels in IMAP. Works like a charm. With some work, you can make GMail (and this Google Apps mail) behave just like a regular IMAP server.
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Oooh, that's a pretty awesome tip, thanks.
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#6 2008-12-21 12:41 am
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Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
Yes I know it's bizarre but the idea behind IMAP for me is that I get alerted to my phone immediately where as with POP I have to sync myself.
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#7 2008-12-21 7:00 am
Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
Booksley wrote:
ame wrote:
Ok yea I don't need that. More than likely I won't create folders ON the web app. I might on my computer at home but that's because Ill set it to remove from server after download, which is what I do already anyway.
Wait, you use IMAP, but you delete from the server anyways? Doesn't that remove the main point of IMAP, that your email can be accessed anywhere?
I do that, too. I only leave about a week's worth of email on the server, in case I should want to refer to it when I'm not at my home computer.
IMAP has more advantages than just access from multiple clients; it also stores sent mail on the server, so it synchronises your outgoing mail, too.
ame wrote:
Yes I know it's bizarre but the idea behind IMAP for me is that I get alerted to my phone immediately where as with POP I have to sync myself.
That's simply not true. IMAP is a pull protocol, just like POP.
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#8 2008-12-21 11:23 am
Re: Spinoff from Webhost thread--Google Apps for email
Alien wrote:
ame wrote:
Yes I know it's bizarre but the idea behind IMAP for me is that I get alerted to my phone immediately where as with POP I have to sync myself.
That's simply not true. IMAP is a pull protocol, just like POP.
IMAP IDLE supports push notification, and other push email extensions are often built on top of IMAP.
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