[Discuss] [OT] Migrating domain to Google?

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

I have no clue.  Wife just got a iPhone and is figuring out how to use
it effectively.  She just asked me how to edit a document being
offline, and it is something we don't have answered yet.

><> ... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23
"If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate"
- Henry J. Tillman
"Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." -
Albert Einstein
"You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." -
Admiral Grace Hopper, USN
Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Jack Coats <jack at coats.org> wrote:
>> My coats.org domain is mainly at Google.  Our main use is email and I
>> only use 2 or 3 of the 10 userIDs available on the free 'small
>> company' plan.  I think the 'free service' is not an option anymore,
>> but still having a reliable always on email server is nice.
>>
>> Set up the admin information when saying I was going to migrate my
>> domain, they gave me a test-coats-org.google.com or something like
>> that to use till I had the DNS changed on coats.org to re-point to
>> google servers.
>>
>> They provide free tools, but I just logged in, set up pop from my old
>> email provider and sucked my own stuff over on the couple of IDs.  It
>> was pretty easy.  Since it was only 2, my wife and me, it was pretty
>> easy.
>>
>> You can have the test...google.com disabled if you want.
>>
>> Yes, I miss-stepped a couple of times, but it worked pretty well.  I
>> got into this because a friend is the admin at a small college in
>> Nashville TN watkins.edu and they migrated from Exchange to Google not
>> long before the flood a few years ago that wiped out their campus
>> electronic infrastructure. (Their building is in the flood plane for
>> the Cumberland River, and the college is in a re-cycled 1 story tall
>> mall with no basement. And the water got up near the roof line so all
>> electronics were toast.  Migrating to google a few months before for
>> many base functions saved their bacon.  Good backups for 'secure
>> on-site' servers was crucial for them too.  At least they could still
>> do email and docs without interruption throughout the emergency from
>> home or elsewhere.)
>
> I presume the Google Mail App for iDevices works for domains
> transferred to google, too?
>
>>
>>><> ... Jack
>> Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23
>> "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate"
>> - Henry J. Tillman
>> "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." -
>> Albert Einstein
>> "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." -
>> Admiral Grace Hopper, USN
>> Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part. - Martin Terma
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am looking at migrating my domain name and my two email boxes from
>>> another provider to google.
>>>
>>> For those who have done it, how difficult was it to have Google import
>>> your old mail from:
>>>
>>> 1: A non google address?
>>>
>>> 2; A <user>@gmail.com address?
>>>
>>>
>>> Keeping people/dates intact of emails and mailbox subfolders on the
>>> google domain side?
>>>
>>> Anything to be careful of?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Scott
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