There are several different versions, but the free version includes most of the features (except the ability to sync with LDAP and do more fancy stuff). It is limited to 25 users. We use the Education version (which is also available for non-profits) and it is completely free and includes all functionality of the Premier version. There is a Team version that is kind of a hybrid and I think it is free, but you can't use it for a whole domain. Lastly, there is the Premier version which is $50 per user/year, which isn't really very bad, when you consider what you're getting. The Premier version has a max mailbox size of 25 GB/user, compared to 7.25 GB/user for the other versions.
Chris On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Andrew Farnsworth <farn...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Chris McQuistion <cmcquist...@watkins.edu > > wrote: > >> You're exactly right. You can sign up with Google Apps and start getting >> stuff set up there, but don't change your MX records, yet. Mail will still >> flow to the old server. >> >> You can set up a domain alias at Google Apps and modify your DNS settings >> to point mail for that domain alias at Google Apps. >> >> For example, we set up a domain alias of pilot.watkins.edu and we created >> DNS records that point any incoming email that is destined for an @ >> pilot.watkins.edu email address to go to Google. Since this is an alias, >> people's actual email address is still @watkins.edu. >> >> Next, we set up forwarding on each individual account at Watkins to >> forward all email to that person's @pilot.watkins.edu email address >> (leaving an original on their watkins.edu account, just in case.) >> >> This means that when someone sends an email to example-u...@watkins.edu, >> that message actually goes to our existing on-premise email server. When it >> gets there, a copy gets forwarded to example-u...@pilot.watkins.edu, >> which delievers it to that users Google Mail account. That user is now >> using their Google Mail account to both send and receive email and >> everything works great. >> >> At some point (once all users are migrated over), we will change the DNS >> records for the main @watkins.edu domain and all email will start flowing >> directly to Google, not going through our email server any more. DNS >> records take a while to propogate, of course, but because we have it >> configured the way we do, if some mail goes to the old system, even after >> the switchover, that mail will still get forwarded to the appropriate place. >> >> A key of course, is migrating all the existing mail. I'm not sure if the >> free version of Google Apps includes the IMAP import tool or not. That's >> what we're using for most migrations. It just connects to our existing >> server over secure IMAP and brings over all the mail. Alternatively, there >> is a desktop app you can install that just uploads your mail from your >> system up to Google Mail. There are probably a handful of other ways to do >> migration as well, but those are the two most popular and the one's we're >> using. (We use the desktop app for Outlook users, because it also grabs >> their contacts and calendars and local folder emails.) >> >> Chris >> > > This sounds really good, but a bit overkill for me as I am the only user on > my domain and while I have several email addresses, it is really fairly > simple. I will probably get it setup, create the alias as you said, then > test it and then throw the switch and test again over time as the dns change > propogates. > > Also, I get my mail from my current provider via Pop3 so will not have any > mail to migrate. Then I will use imap to get mail from google. Then, once > everything has propogated, I will backup my web server and discontinue my > account with my provider. No point in paying them if I don't have too. > > Out of curiosity, what does it cost if you want to pay for google apps > rather than use the free system? > > Andy > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<nlug-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en.
