Don, why do I need Google Apps? I can access Gmail via the Pre and it has push, it also pushes calendar entries and contacts. It basically gives me everything but tasks and notes, which I don't use anyway... Plus it's free and Google Apps now costs money, yes?
Levi > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Don Ferguson > Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 9:59 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Treo] FW: Switching from Exchange to Gmail/Google Calendar > > This one! The link to the bulk email importer is in #3, below. For > $8/month, I'd keep Exchange until Google Apps catches up. At the rate > they're going, I'd think GA will be a huge threat to hosted Exchange > (and > even local Exchange) within a year. Pay the $100 for Exchange for that > year > (www.123together.com) and THEN go to GA if/when it's ready. > > > > My $0.02US > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > > From: Don Ferguson > Sent: Sunday, June 07, 2009 12:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Switching from Exchange to Gmail/Google Calendar > > > > Hi Levi, > > > > I assume you have Google Apps set up with your domain? > > > > To capture all of your email: > > > > 1. Export your Exchange mailbox into a local PST file. > > 2. Find that file and your archive. > > 3. Use this to upload to Gmail: > http://code.google.com/p/google-email-uploader/ > > > > The integration isn't nearly as good with Google Apps as it is with > Exchange. You might think about just keeping an $8/month mailbox - > it's not > THAT much more than free! > > > > Fun toys, any way you go! > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Levi > Wallach > Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 8:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Treo] Switching from Exchange to Gmail/Google Calendar > > So one of my justifications in paying a slightly higher price for the > monthly fee for the Pre was that I could get rid of my exchange > account. I'm > now syncing my calendar with my Google Calendar account and am about to > start syncing contacts. > > I also have hooked up my Gmail account to my Pre, but I currently don't > use > that for email. I've tested it out though and I get notified > immediately > (Push). So here are a couple of questions for those of you in the same > boat: > > a) I figure I'll point my mail servers and Gmail's so that I can get my > regular (currently gotten through a hosted exchange service) email > through > Gmail. Any tips making the switch that will make it a seemless one? > > b) I have lots of email going back years in my Exchange account and > going > back even more years archived in a separate outlook pst file that I can > access in Outlook but that is not synched to the hosted exchange > service. Is > there any way I can get any of this email into Gmail, or will I just > have to > start completely fresh and only be able to search my archives on my > home PC > in Outlook? I thought I could finally once and for all retire it, but > maybe > not! > > Levi > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
