In an endless quest to be able to publish right to wordpress from Emacs, I upgraded an older hosting account to the newer and shinier version (it’s a whole other story in itself, some other day). Since I was breaking things right and left, I figured I’d take the leap to Google Apps backend as well for email. I’ve been forwarding a copy of all email to Gmail for over a year now, and it’s firmly ingrained in my workflow. I’ve always had the fear I’d lose my account somehow, so for $50 a year per user, it’s worth the peace of mind.
Wishlist
- A way to say “take all the information/accounts/whatever for THIS google account and merge it with THAT new google apps account”. Manually sharing calendars, importing email, sharing docs and so forth has been a pain.
- Make the instructions clearer for updating CNAME and MX records. It’s two separate steps, but it’s not clear at first that you have to do both steps.
- When importing email, run it through the Spam filter. I had an account with thousands of junk mails that had to be sorted manually again.
- Why can’t I check mail FROM a Google Apps account via IMAP when the account I’m checking is a gmail account? Why does it have to be POP?
- What’s the best way to do the above? Check via POP? Forward? What’s the ‘Google’ way here?
- Give me a way to export filters and labels along with my mail. Recreating those has been a pain.
- Give me way to export my mail automatically for backup.
So far, that’s my complaints list. I’ll update as I find more things to whine about.
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