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  • http://www.gallery76.no David

    Thank you so much for that! Im no PC nerd, so needed your easy to follow instructions!
    Windows live had stopped working, and im a gmail fan!
    You made my email access easy again!

  • http://sigmundo.net sigmundo

    google sucks. It’s a data-kraken. i don’t even use their search engine (okay, very seldom. most: ixquick).
    i have different email-accounts, all ending up with my (domain-)name, centrally managed via thunderbird.
    finally, i still wonder about the splitting of ‘business’ and ‘private’. in my case it’s all one. pure fun! :)
    best°sig

    • Danny Drake

      In the paid version of Google Apps you retain ownership over all of your on data. No ads and no data mining.

  • http://creativewebbiz.com Yamile Yemoonyah

    A Gmail account and Google Apps account are two different things. If you want a Google Apps account, go here:

    https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/standard/new3

    If you don’t need all that functionality, then use your Gmail account and follow the steps above to set it up with your business email ([email protected])

    For both methods you already need to have set up your own business email address ([email protected]). If you do not have that, contact your web designer or web host and ask for instructions).

  • MIranda

    I have just opened a gmail account for our business because i heard about this google app for businesses. My recent account account is with yahoo and it does seem unprofessional to have a personal account made for a business so thats why i created the gmail account but i need help on the steps. What do i do first? and how much will it cost me?

  • http://abv.bg BG mail

    I have recently started a web site, the information you offer on this site has helped me greatly. Thanks for all of your time & work.

  • http://www.nitajoydesigns.co.uk Anita

    Thank you Yamile, very helpful!

  • http://www.bench-saw.com Bench Saw

    when it comes to free email, i found gmail to be the best and yahoo the worst :.~

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  • http://scissorliftsite.com/ Larry

    I agree! I think that Gmail is the best to use.

  • http://www.allourstuffisfree.com Kasper Larsen

    Really great post.

    I think Gmail is one of the greatest free e-mail providers available and reading this article just opens lots of new opportunities for others who wanted to keep the same functions as gmail offers in their professional mail.

    I will be back for more reading on this blog.
    .-= Kasper Larsen´s last blog ..welcome to our new site =-.

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  • http://katytafoya.com Katy

    So it’s the same process, just done differently. I have my mail forwarded directly from my URL control panel. This mail fetcher thing will go out and fetch it from your URL control panel. Interesting. There really is an app for everything these days ;-)

    Thanks for writing this up. More people need to realize that their [email protected] email address leaves them looking unprofessional and it’s simple process to go official.

    Have a great weekend.
    .-= Katy´s last blog ..Now That’s a Manifesto! =-.

  • http://katytafoya.com Katy

    I’ve seen quite a bit of talk on the web lately about using Google Apps to allow you to use Gmail for domain/web mail. I have to wonder though…why not just go into your domain and forward your email to gmail and then set up gmail from there?

    I have at least 5 websites (all with at least 3 emails each) forwarding into my Gmail. I can access them all from any computer including my phones (even have my iPhone set with gmail as my master email service).

    You’re also able to set the account so that you can reply from the account that the email was sent to. So if you send to my biz account, I automatically reply from my biz account, not my personal account. And whenever I initiate to compose a new email, I’m given a pull-down menu of all the accounts I have set up.

    It seems like the app method works great for you, it’s just making me wonder if folks don’t know how simple it is to set it all up with an app. Looks like I have a new blog topic coming up later this week. ;-)
    .-= Katy´s last blog ..Now That’s a Manifesto! =-.

    • http://kabai33.com Yamile Yemoonyah

      Katy, what you are describing IS the gmail mail fetcher. It’s also the same process I described above and which I have been using for quite some time now. But I also didn’t know there was an official name for this until I wrote the post :-)

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    I want to say – thank you for this!