On 28/06/11 07:05, Robert Fisher wrote: > On 27/06/11 22:41, Chris Hellyar wrote: >> On a slightly different topic, and out of curiosity, are you using >> Google apps, or just free gmail and docs? > I use Google Apps. > > Rob I finally migrated our work email from vodafone (pop only!) to gmail & imap (via google apps) just prior to 13th June aftershocks, and the business interruption meant staff could access email from where ever through gmail interface and the more than adequate search. We're very glad to now have this "any time anywhere" access. Plenty of other options come with it. Not interested in the hassle of looking after an email server for this, nor the inconvenience/limitations of pop.
We're fortunate to have registered for google apps prior to some date in May this year when they changed the free option to be limited to 10 users, so can have 50, being sufficient for our purposes without the need to purchase the business version. Thunderbird config is a piece of cake, it looks up our MX record and then configures servers/ports/security on the basis of the full email address and password alone. Outlook 2010 config is a major headache (never quite got it as I wanted it) and the one user here who was using it no longer does. Main issue was in copying over user's old messages stored in their pop folders, this took a couple of weeks to do, a bit at a time, thanks to 0.7Mbps upload speed. Good opportunity to get them to delete stuff no longer needed. I'm continuing to back up using cron tar script to usb drive and to s3 as before (with slight modification of course). Though there is no need to send the gmail "all mail" folder as it's a superset of all other folders, certain ones of which I am not interested in backing up. Cheers, Roger _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
