[Discuss] [OT] Migrating domain to Google?

[jack at coats.org (Jack Coats)]

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.)

><> ... 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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