[GRLUG] google enterprise for email

[Bruce Smith]

>> Does anyone have 1st hand knowledge of using the google enterprise for email
>> services?  I believe GRCC is using google for their email server.  I'd
>> especially be interested in hearing from someone on the IT side of things at
>> GRCC or other place using google for email.
>
> Company I work for switched from
> qmail/courier/spamassassin/squirellmail/etc to using Google Apps and
> Google Mail... using our own domain name and so on.

Yes, we did something similar at work.
(sendmail/Cyrus-Imap/squirrelmail/Postini to google-apps)

> It relatively easy to setup and get working. My only problem is they
> don't really support "evolution" very well yet.

What problem are you having with Evolution?  We have a couple people
using Evolution without any problems (that I know of).  I personally
prefer the gmail-apps web interface to any client, but that's personal
preference.

Are you using IMAP or POP3 w/Evolution?

Google doesn't support the entire IMAP protocol.  i.e.  They don't do
nested folders.  Is that the problem you're having?

> Other than that, my only gripe is: why didn't we do it earlier.

It took me forever to convince my company to switch to google-apps.
Overall it's been a good experience, with very few problems.

 - BS