Google Apps

A couple of weeks ago we mentioned that we had added IMAP to our mailservers to allow clients the ability to sync email across PC, laptop and phone. We have converted some of our domain email addresses to IMAP and find it extremely useful for syncing across devices and sharing.

Since them we have become aware of Google Apps which will do the same task. The difference, of course, is that your mail service will be run by Google rather than your host but Apps do offer extra services such as Calendar sync too.

Google Apps comes as a free edition (Standard) we recommend using this a test environment with a test domain to see how you like it and compare it to IMAP. There is a better featured Premier edition for £33 per year aimed at the business market.