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From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Google Apps Standard Edition @ gentoo.org
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:11:52
Message-Id: 4BB37432.8090302@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Google Apps Standard Edition @ gentoo.org by Mike Frysinger
1 On 03/31/2010 02:18 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > i'm already using ~/.forward which means mail still goes to mail.g.o and that
3 > server takes care of forwarding it to my private gmail.com account. then my
4 > mail client fetches it from gmail.com via the normal pop/imap methods. there
5 > is no need to share passwords between gmail.com and g.o.
6 >
7 > so i dont see what advantage this process ive been using for years has over
8 > this method. they look pretty much equivalent.
9 > -mike
10
11 Hey Mike,
12
13 You are right that what you are doing gives you the ability to use gmail
14 for this. However, there's one key thing that turning on Standard
15 Edition does:
16
17 It's a "Google Apps" account, not just a Gmail account. You cannot have
18 more than one gmail account open in your browser at one time - the
19 cookies are not separate. Whereas you *can* have your gmail and all of
20 your google apps accounts (in different domains) open at one time.
21
22 Those, like me, who have several google apps accounts (I have a personal
23 business one, a personal one, and a work one) can keep accounts separate
24 this way. Also, since it's the "gentoo.org" google apps account, the
25 email address looks the same as your gentoo address (rather than
26 foo-gentoo@×××××.com, etc.).
27
28 What Alec was asking is why not turn on the feature. It just enables
29 more functionality for those who want to use it. It just requires we
30 verify that we "own" gentoo.org.
31
32 -Joe

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Google Apps Standard Edition @ gentoo.org Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>