Right. I think we all know all of this. The question I was raising was whether or not their changes to gmail accounts made it possible to do away with all the one-account free google apps for domains accounts that people created just to route e-mail. You always could route mail for other domains to gmail, but you can't send mail as that identify cleanly.
On Dec 10, 2012, at 7:17 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > I see now, that my OP wasn't clear, and it's mostly because I assumed people > knew what Google Apps was. But they have lots of different offerings, that > overlap with each other in functionality, so it's not that clear. Hopefully > this will clarify: > > You may have a gmail account (or more than one.) With this account, you get > free email, docs/spreadsheets, etc, and a whole bunch of online apps, and > webpages, blog, etc. But it's all done using your @gmail.com address. You > can even add "Send As" alias addresses, but if somebody sends mail to a > non-gmail address, it doesn't get delivered here; it gets delivered to the > mail server registered as the MX for the non-gmail domain. > > If you like all that stuff and want to use your own domain name, they make > Google Apps. So your company (or whatever) can use a gmail-like web > interface, can manage your own user accounts, can receive mail addressed to > [email protected], can use a private version of google docs and all that > stuff, including the hosting of your web pages, blogs, team sites, etc. It's > all private, only accessible by your company, google employees, and whoever > you might have granted external permission to. Google Apps is a direct > competitor of Office365 and other hosted solutions for mail and stuff. > > Up till recently, they offered both a free version of Google Apps, and a paid > version. But moving forward, they're not taking any new Free Google Apps > customers. They continue to offer the free @gmail.com services, and they > continue to offer paid Google Apps, and they continue to service accounts > that were previously signed up for Free Google Apps. But no more Free Google > Apps signups. > > I didn't post the original message because it was an email directly to me > (and presumably millions of other recipients) from google. I figure anyone > who's interested will be able to find it trivially with a google search. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet projects. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
