Comments on: Using Google/Gmail Apps as a Lightweight Postini Replacement

By: Don

Don — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 02:08:55 +0000

Great idea. I was just thinking of how to do this for my small organization, as the spam filtering from Google seems to be outstanding, and couldn't quite come up with the concept. Thanks for working out the details.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:31:39 +0000

Hey Andrew,
Sorry for the late response. You can change your Reply-From in both Google and Exchange.

In Google go to Settings -> Accounts -> Send Mail As...

In Exchange, make the e-mail address the primary e-mail (it will be bolded) in the Active Directory tab.

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 22:57:18 +0000

Google announced today that they are buying Postini for $625 million. Perhaps they'll be offering up Postini for free to Google Apps users?!?!
Thanks for the guide.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:07:40 +0000

I have configured gmail so that I can read my domain emails from gmail, but as my server host name is, eg:
host.mysite.com then email sent from the server will have a reply as nobody@host.mysyte.com not nobody@mysyte.com

Any clues as how to set mx records so I can easily view any email sent to the nobody@host.mysyte.com email address via gmail?

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:44:21 +0000

I've had a lot of luck with it, honestly. Keep in mind, though.. at one point, I had a whitelist-only spam filter because I was so overwhelmed. Gmail has worked really really well so far.. my one other user was skeptical because he ran into similar problems that you did but he said he's happier overall with Gmail's filtering for App Domains than what we've had in the past.

Maybe things have improved since you used them? Or maybe I have a high tolerance for crappy spam filters

By: Legolas

Legolas — Thu, 17 May 2007 10:46:43 +0000

Strange that you like the gmail spamfilter. I just use(d) gmail as a pop3 mailbox, but I've stopped using almost completely because every time I enter my gmail address at a new website/forum/.., whatever mail they send ends up in the spam folder in gmail. Not only that, but unless I go to the gmail website, I'd never even know.... (And I don't want to go to the website, which is why I use outlook to pop the mail in the first place.)

By: carlo

carlo — Fri, 04 May 2007 12:12:59 +0000

Cool, thanks!

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:45:03 +0000

(whoops! I forgot to respond to this)

I've been using Gmail & Google Apps and have had only a few false positives. It's been the most effective spam filter I've worked with. That and Akismet which could possibly be ported for email apps (I just use it for the web).

By: Blendah Tom

Blendah Tom — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:33:18 +0000

Re: Carlo

I have been using Google apps for Domains for the past couple of months and I love the Spam filter.. I have only had one false/positive and I get between 50-100 emails a day..

By: carlo

carlo — Wed, 02 May 2007 09:05:23 +0000

How do you find the spam filtering to work using Gmail for your domain? I'm really unhappy with how much junk Spamcop's hosted email service lets through, and have been looking for a Postini provider for my single email account. I had thought of using Google Apps for my domain, but I currently have all my email copied to a regular Gmail account, and its spam filter really doesn't work well at all.