OK I made the switch!
So I have a handful of email addresses that I use and support. It gets a bit annoying handling all the different addresses. I love gmail! The interface is great as well as the spam protection. Lately a few of my accounts have been getting hit with so much spam and a lot of my emails are being sent back as undeliverable.
The thing is I have a few servers the I run my websites off of and I have a few mailing lists that go out. No matter how hard you try you are going to get your emails flagged. For the most part you can handle it, but nowadays even people who have opted in to revcieve email will send you to a blacklist. Then you have the fun job of getting off that blacklist. Yey good times!
So I have decided to just take all my email addresses and funnel them into my new google apps premier account. At $50 for the year 25gigs of space and a bit more privacy you can’t go wrong.
OK so what is this post really about? Well I had about 5 email accounts that I use very heavily via windows live mail. How the heck can I get them into my new google email account? After researching a few different options, I found the best way to really do it!
You can use your google email in many email programs, but I truly love the gmail interface so I wanted to switch everything to that.
Now this is for Windows Live mail, but the idea should work for any other email program you are using.
What you need to do is create a new IMAP account in your Windows Live mail with your new Google email information. CLICK HERE FOR INSTRUCTIONS
Once your account is set up it is as simple as copying the emails you want into the newly create google email account. Voila you can now see your old emails on your google email interface.
I am so glad I found this. I now have all my emails into my google email and all the old addresses forwarded to it. In my signature I have a little message asking people to update their information with my new email address.
I am very happy with the service so far. I will keep you posted.
If you have tried google apps or went for Google apps premeir, please leave a comment about how it has been working for you.
I have good experience with Google Apps, It is really a complete solution not only for the emails, i can store many addresses, Best is that I can do an internal chat with my employees. Overall Google Apps is great and working for me. Best employee collaboration software. I feel 50$ per user is not a big cost compared to the features they provide.