At least it used to be called that…I think it’s google accounts for domains now or something like that…anyway…

I just set it up to handle ethergeek.com’s mail after having so much trouble with my host’s email (too much intermittent “-ERR Maildir invalid (no ‘cur’ directory)” errors) so I finally just said fuck them and set up Google mail for domains.

Anyway, setup was a little tricky, they asked me a few questions, then made me upload a file to my server to verify that I owned the domain, then made me wait 24 hours while they “verified my MX record” (I don’t know why that takes more than a few hours, the TTL on those records is not *that* long), but finally it works. To be honest, the logging into my account should be easier; I should be able to just go to www.gmail.com and enter my username at ethergeek.com and my password, and the system should just know to take me to my mailbox, but instead I have to log in via a different google site with a long annoying name or add a CNAME record (my cPanel host may have a problem doing this, as most hosts that use cPanel have nobody on staff that understands how to manually configure bind) that will point something like mail.ethergeek.com somewhere. I may abuse a redirect to get this to work ^_^.

As for the general experience, it’s just like using gmail, I can set up catch-all addresses for my domain, and they gave me up to 100 accounts with 2 GB of storage apiece. And of course I get the gmail spam filter (thank GOD, since those assholes over at freewareppc posted my email address *in the clear* for months so every spam harvester in the world has it now) to clean up my inbox.

It also comes with other services, like calendar, docs and spreadsheets, talk (which I’m gonna play with later), and google webs…fun toys I haven’t gotten to try out yet, OH…and a /ig for domain accounts.

Best of all, it’s free. Can’t beat that. All in all it kicks the shit out of the basic as fuck mail support you get with cPanel hosting.