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April 12, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Google Apps Email-I am forced to give you the finger

TAGS: Infrastructure

We made a bold attempt to switch over to the Google Apps today and man what a world of pain we ran into with some of the stupidest "features" I have ever seen from a business application. The main issue is that you can't send POP mail to yourself from yourself and if you send from yourself to your alias it automatically archives. They claim this is to reduce inbox clutter. I claim it's moronic.

Sending from self to self = no pop
sending from self to alias = archive

The other amazing thing is that you can't reply-all and include yourself on the message thread. The header strips out your address and only includes the other recipients. I presume this is because Gmail is used to working within it's own system.

I can't believe that this is considered a good thing. We're going to give it a day to figure it out (changing MX records twice in one day does wonders for productivity FYI) but I can't see a way to make this work.

On the positive side I wanted to use Zimbra anyway, and I know it works just fine.

POP: I'm having problems downloading mail
Gmail Help Discussion

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on April 12, 2007 05:12 PM

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