On 03/31/2010 02:18 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i'm already using ~/.forward which means mail still goes to mail.g.o and that > server takes care of forwarding it to my private gmail.com account. then my > mail client fetches it from gmail.com via the normal pop/imap methods. there > is no need to share passwords between gmail.com and g.o. > > so i dont see what advantage this process ive been using for years has over > this method. they look pretty much equivalent. > -mike
Hey Mike, You are right that what you are doing gives you the ability to use gmail for this. However, there's one key thing that turning on Standard Edition does: It's a "Google Apps" account, not just a Gmail account. You cannot have more than one gmail account open in your browser at one time - the cookies are not separate. Whereas you *can* have your gmail and all of your google apps accounts (in different domains) open at one time. Those, like me, who have several google apps accounts (I have a personal business one, a personal one, and a work one) can keep accounts separate this way. Also, since it's the "gentoo.org" google apps account, the email address looks the same as your gentoo address (rather than foo-gen...@gmail.com, etc.). What Alec was asking is why not turn on the feature. It just enables more functionality for those who want to use it. It just requires we verify that we "own" gentoo.org. -Joe
