[Discuss] [OT] Migrating domain to Google?

[John Abreau]

I use it on my iPad for both gmail.com and gapps.blu.org mailboxes.
Gapps.blu.org is our Google Apps domain.


On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:41 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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