Comments on: Use Gmail as your primary email client in 10 easy steps

By: Ross Allchorn

Ross Allchorn — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 06:19:22 +0000

Todd, you are 100% correct. This post did not take “secure” servers inside your company network into consideration. I do hope you will forgive my nonsensical article. Might I recommend you look into http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html.

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:49:58 +0000

You are not making sense. Let’s say that my $WORK email is joe@microsoft.com. In step 10 above, you say that when I (or anyone else I presume) sends email to joe@microsoft.com, it magically makes it to my gmail inbox? No, that’s not how DNS works. It queries DNS for the MX record for the domain, and delivers it to the domain’s mail exchanger. If my $WORK domain has a server that supports POP or IMAP, I could use gmail, but not if my email gets delivered to the “secure” server inside my company’s network.

By: Joel Godin

Joel Godin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:39 +0000

Thanks. I too am moving to the ‘Cloud’. I don’t have to worry about backups, or hard drive crashes. I also moved my XP to my iMac for the one program I need in Windows. iMacs are so much better too.

By: Shane McCallum

Shane McCallum — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:02:07 +0000

Gmail is great, and if the account is for a home business I highly recommend making use of Google Apps. So nice to be able to access email, documents, and all sorts of other neat integrated features from anywhere any time.