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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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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?
5. What’s the best way to do the above?  Check via POP?  Forward?  What’s the ‘Google’ way here?
6. Give me a way to export filters and labels along with my mail.  Recreating those has been a pain.
7. 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.