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On Wednesday 31 March 2010 02:24:24 Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 31 March 2010 01:28:56 Alec Warner wrote: |
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> >> Currently a number of developers have engaged Google Apps Team Edition |
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> >> for gentoo.org. However Team Edition does not come with gmail and a |
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> >> subset of Team Edition users would like to host their gentoo.org mail |
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> >> on gmail. |
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> >> Activating Standard Edition is free and likely requires minimal |
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> >> configuration on dev.gentoo.org to setup. Standard Edition comes with |
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> >> Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mail, Google Sites, Google Video, |
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> >> and probably a bunch of other stuff we could turn on. |
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> > i dont really know anything about these Google things you refer to. |
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> > could you provide URLs and/or some summary background ? |
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> Well you know about calendar since you use it ;p |
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> The corporate spiel is here. |
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> http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html |
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yes, but i dont see what "Google Apps Team Edition" or "Standard Edition" gets |
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me vs me simply going to gmail.com and creating a new account ... same for the |
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calendar |
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> > personally, i just created a dedicated gmail account and set my dev.g.o |
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> > forward to that. then i fetch the mail from gmail's pop interface. how |
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> > do these offerings provide anything over that sort of setup ? |
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> That requires giving gmail your pop password which not everyone likes. |
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> In this setup you could use your d.g.o procmail to forward mail to |
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> something like 'google-hosted.mail.gentoo.org' which would stuff it in |
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> gentoo.org gmail account and you gentoo.org account could be your |
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> d.g.o password, or something different. |
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i'm already using ~/.forward which means mail still goes to mail.g.o and that |
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server takes care of forwarding it to my private gmail.com account. then my |
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mail client fetches it from gmail.com via the normal pop/imap methods. there |
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is no need to share passwords between gmail.com and g.o. |
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so i dont see what advantage this process ive been using for years has over |
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this method. they look pretty much equivalent. |
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-mike |