To @brammofan question:

“Must I stop sending email from my confusedguy address if I want my brammofan domain to show up as the From: address? Do I have to log into two google accounts each day?”

The short answer is no…you just have to go back into your gmail settings…then click the accounts and settings tab…then click on the “send mail as” button (or click “edit” if you are already sending mail as “brammofan”)

When the pop up window opens choose your send name and email address that you want to send mail as…then click “next” …

On the next screen select the second choice and choose “Send through brammofan.ca SMTP servers” and fill in the server settings for brammofan….

Cick save or finish and your emails will now send from Gmail and look like they came from “youraddress@brammofan.com”…

I use this for my personal setup as I wanted to keep all my existing Google services…So I use Google Apps for my work mail server but have it forward all the incoming mail to my personal Gmail address….and then configure Gmail as above so my outgoing emails for work appear exactly as if they came from a custom domain email server….

Hope this helps….

The short answer is no…you just have to go back into your gmail settings…then click the accounts and settings tab…then click on the “send mail as” button (or click “edit” if you are already sending mail as “brammofan”)

When the pop up window opens choose your send name and email address that you want to send mail as…then click “next” …

On the next screen select the second choice and choose “Send through brammofan.ca SMTP servers” and fill in the server settings for brammofan….

Cick save or finish and your emails will now send from Gmail and look like they came from “youraddress@brammofan.com”…

I use this for my personal setup as I wanted to keep all my existing Google services…So I use Google Apps for my work mail server but have it forward all the incoming mail to my personal Gmail address….and then configure Gmail as above so my outgoing emails for work appear exactly as if they came from a custom domain email server….

Hope this helps….

Yes. Set up IMAP access on your new and old account. Launch a desktop IMAP client like Thunderbird. Drag and drop the email from your old account into your new one.

@Ivan: Do you see any real advantage of using Google Apps for Business for inviduals, or are the added “features” just not worth it?

They’re not currently worth it for me as an individual, but if I was a small biz, definitely.

@Walter and @Dom: It’s true; not all Google apps work with domain accounts. I log into my vanilla Gmail account for Reader, Voice, and Wave. The rest I use my domain account.

@Jerry: You can set up a “catch-all” email address using Google apps for your domain, which is a nice bonus.

What about a catch-all type account, where every address not explicitly assigned goes instestead of bouncing?
I use this so that I can register with web sites that want my email as “theirsitename@domain.com”. This also allows me to see who sells my email to spammers and turn off some addresses if they get misused.

Thanks

is this additive

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/email_uploader.html

You can migrate emails from the existing server/account back into the domain now being hosted at google.

I personally had close to 1GB of saved emails (been running my own server for awhile and am a packrat when it comes to bytes) I used this tool to upload all of those emails to google apps and have full access be it on my mobile or from any internet connected computer …

and the spam filters are better than any open source combo I was ever able to waste time maintaining …

I thought you had found the way to actually connect to the DOMAIN without forwarding …

Being a little more familiar with DNS and someone who is very aware of the URL’s …

When we host our emails at Google and we use Google Apps Standard … notice that I may enter http://mail.example.com however as soon as that resolves it “redirects” or “Forwards” to https://mail.google.com/a/example.com

So appearing “Big” or seeming to host your own domain is immediately gone as soon as anyone looks at the URL ….

I believe if we had a PAID FOR account this Domain name forward issue is taken care of.

Appreciate you and yours!!

As far as keeping personal and “business” separate, I’ve found that using incognito mode in Chrome is a surefire way to have both of them open and active at the same time, since the two can’t “see” each other. Again, low-to-mid tech here, so maybe that doesn’t get the job done for people with higher demands, but it’s been working for me.

And, since it’s my first comment on any of your work, I feel obligated to inform you that I’m a huge follower/fan, and I really like what you’ve done with this here Smarterware and your contributions to TWiG. Keep up the awesome work!