Google launched its Google Apps a while back; it doesn’t seem to hit the spot yet. Many don’t know of the service Google gives out with their Apps service. When I tried for the first time I was surprise to see all those services are offered for free of charge.
(Scroll down to end of page to see how to Signup for Free).
Google offers Google Mail (GMail) Front End (With IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support too) for your domain name. All you have to do is simply signup for and setup your domain’s MX records as suggested in Google Apps. For my domains, Google Apps had given me 100 Mailbox pre allocated (More on Request) and each mailbox around 7GB size. All mailboxes come with Standard GMail features. There are many providers charging for this simple and free service even today and many continues to purchase more not knowing this free service.
Keeping your mail server separate could help you in the long run, and the company credible as Google is good for a long terms existence. Of course they do have their way of collecting information’s of Google product users but that didn’t stop us from using Google Search engine! Have you stopped using?
Main reason for me to have Google Mail;
I usually like to have a web interface to access my emails from anywhere, Google Apps provide IMAP access so I don’t have to download through POP and erase all my emails on server (after all I have 7 GB space to spare) and I can use GMail to login to check my emails while I’m away. Spam Filtering, Labels, security and more…
These services can be also found on any standard web hosting where you could set up mailbox and download data through IMAP. Again there are many web mail scripts available/installed as standard with almost all hosting providers; which you could use to access email via browser too. Say for an example you want to move your hosting to a new provider, if you have chosen Google Apps and using their Email service, you have one less worry. No need to worry about email, just your web contents and DNS of your domain need to be updated!
Plus, you don’t even need a web hosting to start receiving emails, just buy a domain and signup for a Google Apps account and you got your self a email server.
Other services to top your 7GB space
- Google Documents
- Google Chat for your domain + public
- Google Calendar
- And more…
When Chrome OS comes out next year, Google Apps expected to be it’s primary product to be installed by default (Because it’s believed to be Cloud Computing).
How to Signup for Free?
There are many different version of Google Apps service available. Many are paid service, but for No-profits, it’s free.
Go to: http://www.google.com/a/
** Look for a link (small normal text link) says non-profits and get Started to signup…
* Sorry, Non-profits only suitable for Education or sort, Please go to above google.com/a page and find a link to “STANDARD EDITION” (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html) should be on the Right side bellow Begin Free Trial. This is the Free for normal users…..
* I’m not in any way associated with Google and I don’t benefit from this article at all. Above picture is a screen shot of Google Apps page and Logo and contents of image is google’s trade mark (I guess!).
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