[Discuss] [OT] Migrating domain to Google?

[Scott Ehrlich]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Jack Coats <jack at coats.org> wrote:
> My coats.org domain is mainly at Google.  Our main use is email and I
> only use 2 or 3 of the 10 userIDs available on the free 'small
> company' plan.  I think the 'free service' is not an option anymore,
> but still having a reliable always on email server is nice.
>
> Set up the admin information when saying I was going to migrate my
> domain, they gave me a test-coats-org.google.com or something like
> that to use till I had the DNS changed on coats.org to re-point to
> google servers.
>
> They provide free tools, but I just logged in, set up pop from my old
> email provider and sucked my own stuff over on the couple of IDs.  It
> was pretty easy.  Since it was only 2, my wife and me, it was pretty
> easy.
>
> You can have the test...google.com disabled if you want.
>
> Yes, I miss-stepped a couple of times, but it worked pretty well.  I
> got into this because a friend is the admin at a small college in
> Nashville TN watkins.edu and they migrated from Exchange to Google not
> long before the flood a few years ago that wiped out their campus
> electronic infrastructure. (Their building is in the flood plane for
> the Cumberland River, and the college is in a re-cycled 1 story tall
> mall with no basement. And the water got up near the roof line so all
> electronics were toast.  Migrating to google a few months before for
> many base functions saved their bacon.  Good backups for 'secure
> on-site' servers was crucial for them too.  At least they could still
> do email and docs without interruption throughout the emergency from
> home or elsewhere.)

I presume the Google Mail App for iDevices works for domains
transferred to google, too?

>
>><> ... Jack
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>
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 4:35 AM, Scott Ehrlich <srehrlich at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am looking at migrating my domain name and my two email boxes from
>> another provider to google.
>>
>> For those who have done it, how difficult was it to have Google import
>> your old mail from:
>>
>> 1: A non google address?
>>
>> 2; A <user>@gmail.com address?
>>
>>
>> Keeping people/dates intact of emails and mailbox subfolders on the
>> google domain side?
>>
>> Anything to be careful of?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott
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