Google service that allows for customized versions of Google products under a custom domain.
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How to Setup Ubuntu Mail Server with Google Apps?
I have a domain, let's call it foobar.com. All of the MX records for foobar.com point to Google's mail servers because I am using Google Apps for your domain to manage it. It's great because everyone ...
13
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7answers
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Google Apps, AD and SSO
We're a small shop running Google Apps (Enterprise) for our email needs. Love it. Internally, we're using Windows AD (2003). No complaints there either.
I'd like to get some method of SSO going ...
10
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8answers
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Free Name Server services reliability? [closed]
I'm starting a small web design shop. We does not have much money so we would like to keep our costs as low as possible.
All we need is a @ourcompany.com mail address and a few web pages to showcase ...
9
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3answers
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How to setup a SPF record to help fight SPAM
My little developer mind never really managed to understand how to do it, so maybe you can help me.
I'm using Google Apps for Domains and MyDomain as DNS external service.
Edit: Tough crowd, in ...
9
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2answers
419 views
How did spammer spoof emails with my google apps domain (it even has DKIM!)
I have been getting a lot of bounce-backs lately.
I thought my google apps account has been compromised, but there is no activity on my apps account, and there is certainly no malicious user that I ...
7
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3answers
4k views
How to use Google Apps as an OD/AD/LDAP Provider
I see tons of solutions for allowing Google Apps to use external AD and LDAP services for login.
However, I already have a ton of users setup in Google Apps already, and I'm trying to go the other ...
6
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4answers
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Hotmail sending email to A record not MX records
I have my website hosted at one location, on a server that also accepts email, and I use Google Apps for mail as my email provider. I've had no problems in the last 18 months, and no reports of email ...
6
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4answers
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Emergency Email Server
Preface
Skip this if you just want the question, just some background
We've been using Google Apps for Domains for years with out any (major) issues. But yesterday I removed an alias domain and ...
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2answers
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Not receiving mails from some senders due to DNS config
I have noticed a peculiar behavior of my google apps domain. Most of the mails come through as you would expect, but over a period of time I have come to the conclusion that mails from certain senders ...
6
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2answers
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Google Apps Domain Level Shared Contacts?
My firm just switched to Google Apps Premiere addition 2 weeks ago and aside from the way Google handles shared contacts, things are going quite well.
Previously, on our Exchange server we had ...
6
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2answers
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Google Apps, SPF, softfail problem (validates with validation tools, but still softfails otherwise)
I guess this is probably a commonly asked and boring question but I'm really at a loss and I don't know what else to do. This might be a duplicate of other questions, but none of the solutions worked ...
6
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2answers
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Get individual message size for all Exchange 2010 users
I need to make a report with a list of the largest messages on an Exchange 2010 server. I looked through the commands that I could use, and Get-MailboxStatistics isn't granular enough - I need to find ...
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4answers
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set Google Apps SPF record in Amazon AWS Route 53
I'm using the new AWS GUI for Route 53 to setup my domain records. However, the AWS console won't accept the recommended Google Apps SPF record, v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all (found here).
It ...
5
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3answers
359 views
What is your experience with Google Apps Premier edition?
I am heavily considering moving my company's messaging system (back-end) to the cloud. Namely to google apps.
It is a lawyer company with around 30 employees. We have a Small Business Server 2003 and ...
5
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2answers
460 views
What are the correct SPF records to allow both local and Google Apps delivery
We have recently moved our server stack to a new data farm, and some of our clients are experiencing issues with mail being sent from their GApps accounts. Before the server move we had no issues, but ...
5
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1answer
362 views
Google Apps Transition - Free/Busy with Exchange 2010
Over the past few weeks I've been working to create a flawless Google Apps test pilot for our users despite Google's lack of official support for Exchange 2010 in all migration utilities. So far, I've ...
5
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3answers
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How to format and where to put the SPF TXT record?
EDIT I think I more or less understand the syntax and, anyway, Google is giving, in the link below, the syntax needed.
My question is really where to put that stuff. Should I quote every field? The ...
4
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2answers
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Use Google Apps/Cloud Services as a Domain Controller Replacement
This is a Canonical Question about Cloud Services replacing Active Directory.
Is it possible to use Google Apps or another Cloud Service as a replacement for a Windows Domain Controller ...
4
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2answers
750 views
Server and network setup for a small private school
I help a local private school with a lot of their tech needs. So far, it's been on the order of repairing/installing office computers and helping manage the office network.
But now the administrator ...
4
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7answers
5k views
Suggestions for using Active Directory credentials (user name/password) with Google Apps?
I run a small college network with approximately 150 user accounts both in my Active Directory and in Google Apps. I'm looking to link AD with G-Apps. Currently my users are required to maintain ...
4
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2answers
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Google Apps email forwarding from non-existing email addresses
We're planning to move all our corporate email to Google Apps, but I couldn't find an answer for the following question anywhere. Hope anybody will help.
Currently we have 10 real email addresses ...
4
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1answer
779 views
Moving mail server to google apps
I just recently moved one of my Mail server (Exim+dovecot) to google apps thinking it would be a good idea. I am interested to hear what the serverfault community think about it, and mostly weight the ...
4
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2answers
2k views
Sendmail on Ubuntu trying to use Google Apps servers as a relay, by default?
I have a recently installed Ubuntu (natty) server, with a domain pointed to it. The mail for this domain is handled by Google Apps (via MX dns records pointing to Google's mail servers).
Now, I've ...
4
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2answers
358 views
Digital signatures and encryption in GMail
I just wonder if there is a way to use SSL certificates or PGP keys for signing my email.
At the moment I have to setup S/MIME in Outlook (or another thick client) to send signed messages via SMTP. ...
4
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2answers
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Google Apps BCC all Inbound and Outbound email
I am working with a company on a migration from a standard POP3 email provider over to Google Apps premier.
The owner of the company currently receives copies of all INBOUND and OUTBOUND email into ...
4
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1answer
208 views
Postfix SMTP sends to localhost, ignores MX records set to Google Apps
I have the MX records for zaltin.com set to the Google Apps domains (aspmx.l.google.com etc.). If an email is sent to kerrick@zaltin.com from most places, it goes to my Google Apps account. However, ...
4
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3answers
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Using ADFS 2.0 for Google apps single sign on
Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services 2.0 has been recently released, and it has passed interoperability tests for SAML 2.0.
Does this mean that is can be used to authenticate users of ...
3
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3answers
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How to Limit the Damage of Domain Spoofing
My e-mail account, for my privately run business which I'll call "VeryCoolCompany", is starting to receive bounce-backs for users who don't exist, like these:
alan12ab1@verycoolcompany.com
...
3
votes
1answer
181 views
TXT record is forwarded because of CNAME
I want to verify my domain name with google apps, by using DNS verification.
This involves making a TXT record with a generated value by google.
However, I have a CNAME record for the "mydomain.com". ...
3
votes
1answer
716 views
Self Signed Certificate - Active Directory - Make it trustable to all users
I use Google Apps For Business + SingleSignOn, that means all my users login trough an internal interface instead of though gmail.com.
This SingleSignOn open source solution uses SAML protocol (i ...
3
votes
2answers
1k views
automated emails from php using google apps?
I've got google apps setup, with the mx records working.
Any emails to me@mydomain.com now go to my google apps, great.
Now i want to use google apps for sending automated emails (ie lost password, ...
3
votes
6answers
620 views
What is causing email sent from my Google Apps account to bounce?
I have started to get Delivery Status Notification (Failure) messages in response to emails sent from my Google Apps domain account (at offby1.net):
Delivery to the following recipient failed ...
3
votes
1answer
87 views
Google Apps is routing mail unexpectedly
This has been going on for two days now and it's really bugging me.
I've owned a domain name for a few years now. Let's call it example.com. I've had Google Apps free edition set up there for a few ...
3
votes
2answers
314 views
Once mail hosting through Gmail is setup, is it easy to change web hosts?
I have a personal domain name, pointing to a simple cPanel-type shared hosting account. About six months ago, I decided that I wanted to use Google Gmail for hosting my domain name's email.
In my ...
3
votes
2answers
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Migrating email from Cpanel to Google Apps
I'm busy moving web hosts at the moment, from a typical Cpanel installation to a cloud based service with a custom control panel. Rather than manage my clients emails on the new host I've decided to ...
3
votes
3answers
270 views
How to transition to Google Apps without losing e-mail
We're about to move a client from a "regular" Courier Mail Server at another provider's server to Google Apps with us. So at the same time, we're switching their DNS records to "point" to our web ...
3
votes
1answer
234 views
Google Apps and Server Essentials
Is there a way to integrate the login and account management of Google Apps and Microsoft Windows Server Essentials 2011, so that I only have to maintain one set of user data between the two products? ...
3
votes
2answers
491 views
Does transferring a domain transfers DNS records?
Does transferring a domain name automatically transfer all DNS records? I'm transferring to GoDaddy. I'm particularly concerned with the MX records and others which one creates for Google Apps Email ...
3
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4answers
567 views
BPOS, Google Apps, or my own Exchange server?
I know I'm walking into a religious war, but I'm hoping to get some advice from people who have actually managed their 50+ person company's transition to either Microsoft BPOS or Google apps. (Or ...
3
votes
5answers
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Google Apps e-mail being rejected from some domains
I'm migrating e-mail for my domains to Google Apps' e-mail. Most everything seems to work except e-mail sent to any user at (at least) sonic.net is rejected with a message of the form (where ...
3
votes
1answer
1k views
Linode w/ Google Apps - how to get mail from PHP working?
I have a CentOS Linode instance that I'm running as a LAMP stack. I'm also using Google Apps for email. I have my MX records pointing at google's servers and everything is working in terms of relaying ...
3
votes
4answers
519 views
Bounce backs from web-generated e-mails are missing
We use Google Apps to host my company's mail. On our website, we send some e-mails on behalf of our users. In those e-mails we include lines like this:
Return-Path: ...
3
votes
2answers
114 views
moving emails from google apps to microsoft exchange 2010
We have our emails hosted with Google Apps at the moment and would like to migrate to an in-house solution with Microsoft Exchange 2010 server. How would i go about migrating all the emails from ...
3
votes
1answer
2k views
Can Google App users view Exchange users public calendars and contacts?
My company currently uses MS Exchange 2003 for company email, contacts, and calendars. We have approximately 150 users. Construction industry.
I would like to look into migrating from Exchange to ...
3
votes
2answers
366 views
google apps - privacy, ownership and location of data
This is not directly technical question. but I think this is an important question for every admin implementing Google Apps instead of their own mail server.
I'm pretty excited by the possibilities ...
3
votes
2answers
455 views
How to reset google apps account while transferring from godaddy to gmail?
I have a domain name and website on godaddy, and i used this tool to transfer my mails to gmail https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/google/gmail%5Flogin.asp
After using this, i didn't receive any ...
3
votes
1answer
311 views
Need suggestions on making Network File Share, Internal Wiki, Google Docs, and emails searchable from a single location for my organization
I want my coworkers to be able to type a search into a single box and have it return information from all those sources.
Network File Share
Internal Wiki (based on MediaWiki)
Google Docs (we ...
3
votes
1answer
353 views
How do you run scheduled tasks with extra parameters in Server 2008?
The issue that we are facing now is that Scheduled Synchronization is not working when the task scheduler executes a program for Google Apps.
The program runs as follows when within command prompt:
...
3
votes
2answers
332 views
Central backup for google apps standard
Do you know how to do a full backup of ALL users emails when using Google Apps Standard?
What about docs, calendars etc.?
Is it by any chance possibiity to automate it?
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5answers
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Reliable email service for personal use using own domain name
I have my own domain name but do not want to manage the email. I'm looking for a web-based email client (similar to Gmail) but able to use my own domain. The main requirement is reliability. I've ...
