Migrating to Google Apps
Yesterday, in a fit of annoyance over my unreliable mail forwarding server (which forwards from my main vickiho.com e-mail to Gmail), I decided to migrate everything over to Google Apps once and for all.
The biggest headache was going to be moving all my mail over to the new account, but I found a great tool at Gmail Backup. It's the lazyman's way to transferring everything over via IMAP, which I think most people can do if they fired up and configured a fresh client to do the transfer. But Gmail Backup makes it far less of a hassle, with a simple frontend.
Just download mail from your Gmail account and restore it back to your new Google Apps account. Labels and all stay intact. Nice.
The only thing is, your sent mail doesn't go back into the sent folder, but for some reason just gets archived with no "sent" label. I can live with that.
Sidenote: Moving over to Google Apps takes care of that annoying "mailed by Gmail" tag which accompanies e-mails sent from Gmail and reveals your Gmail address. The other method is to use your own SMTP server, but I trust Google's SMTP servers more than the cheapskate one that came along with my domain.
