On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 01:28:56 Alec Warner wrote:
>> Currently a number of developers have engaged Google Apps Team Edition
>> for gentoo.org.  However Team Edition does not come with gmail and a
>> subset of Team Edition users would like to host their gentoo.org mail
>> on gmail.
>> Activating Standard Edition is free and likely requires minimal
>> configuration on dev.gentoo.org to setup.  Standard Edition comes with
>> Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Mail, Google Sites, Google Video,
>> and probably a bunch of other stuff we could turn on.
>
> i dont really know anything about these Google things you refer to.  could you
> provide URLs and/or some summary background ?

Well you know about calendar since you use it ;p

The corporate spiel is here.

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html

>
> personally, i just created a dedicated gmail account and set my dev.g.o
> forward to that.  then i fetch the mail from gmail's pop interface.  how do
> these offerings provide anything over that sort of setup ?
> -mike
>

That requires giving gmail your pop password which not everyone likes.
 In this setup you could use your d.g.o procmail to forward mail to
something like 'google-hosted.mail.gentoo.org' which would stuff it in
gentoo.org gmail account and you gentoo.org account could be your
d.g.o password, or something different.

-A

PS: I am affiliated with Google, but I don't get sales bonuses.  This
thread is in response to a random request I received from another
developer.

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