The ScooterBlog

I have a Yahoo E-Mail address. I even pay them nice sums of money on a yearly basis in order for me to continue to reap the benefits of said e-mail address ($20 a year to be exact, really not bad for what you get). Been using this e-mail address for upwards of seven or eight years, haven’t minded a bit.

Google just saved me an Andrew Jackson every year though, and it was easy to do!

For those who don’t know, GMail how has IMAP functionality. When you change something in the web interface, it changes everywhere. No more having to manage e-mail in seven places, one change affects all. It’s like Exchange Servers without the Microsoft aftertaste (which I don’t mind btw, but that’s for another day.)

So, I went ahead and made the plunge and decided to switch to an e-mail address for this domain through Google Apps For Your Domain. All the same GMail features, your own e-mail address (and tremendous administration tools). I can have up to 50 users if I want too, not that I’d ever need that many. And, I decided to begin to use my gmail.com account since I now have a lot of stuff tied into Google on that login.

My e-mail client of choice is also Thunderbird. It’s open source, can be portable, generally easy to move from one machine to the next, and very powerful. It integrates with GMail’s IMAP very well, but with a few tweaks, it becomes completely seamless to go from web to client, even to phone. This LifeHacker article is all over that.

I could not be more thrilled to make the change, I will even be migrating the wife to GMail this week so she can use a real e-mail client (and a real laptop) for accessing her e-mail. Well worth the effort in setting up.

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