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Google Apps now defaults to the Premier Edition (pay). It took some digging to find the link for the Standard edition. Link is here http://www.google.com/apps... - Jauder Ho

Some background: I'm migrating from a Linux host running qmail and procmail along with hosted DNS to this. I'm reverting to GoDaddy for DNS services. - Jauder Ho

Quick googling does not seem to show anything that helps convert procmail to gmail filters. Suggestions/links/code welcome. - Jauder Ho

I can totally see why someone would do that though. Running your own mail setup is a royal PITA. I have a bunch of clients on GAFYD and it just works. For syncing email, I'd give this a try: http://freshmeat.net/project... - never tried it though. My last move was Maildir to Maildir so I rsynced them from A to B. - till

As for filters, I don't think Google's approach works for the client though. E.g. the filters added on the webmail only apply there, not to email you pick up via POP3/IMAP through another MUA. - till

The host I am migrating off of was run by a friend (thankfully since I hate qmail). I have been reading mail on that host using pine/alpine and for the most part it works. All my mail on that machine is kept in the strange MIX format that no one else uses except maybe MRC. At some point, I'll probably figure a migration path for that but I'm just storing it locally for now. Too much to deal with right now =) - Jauder Ho

Gmail filters work fine for filtering to the right labels/folders. It is just a pain to have to recreate the procmail rules since it *is* 10 years of cruft. - Jauder Ho

The interesting part is going to be trying to get Apps connected to the Pre. - Jauder Ho

What would also be useful is the ability to create/modify filters from within an email. I.e. add the from address to this filter from now on... - Jauder Ho

Setting up a catch-add address http://www.google.com/support... - Jauder Ho

Use groups for email aliases http://www.google.com/support... - Jauder Ho

Use shred to delete files. Especially, if you do not know how the drive/data is going to be disposed. find . -type f -print | xargs shred -u -v FTW. - Jauder Ho

On the upside, Apps seems to be capturing more spam (not all though). 587 pieces so far in just one day! - Jauder Ho

Yeah, I also like how easy it is to train. Their filters rarely ever catch something that is not spam. Rarely ever means 2 or 3 emails per month. Of the 1000s it tags correctly. Btw, might have been wrong on the filter part. They might work still when you use IMAP. Couldn't verify either. - till

For my main acct, the filters and labels work fine when accessing via IMAP. In fact, the recent update allows you to control what labels/folders are presented via IMAP. I am finding some phishing emails are still getting through but this is with an email address that is 13 years old so I am not that surprised. - Jauder Ho

Also, the Pre works fine with Google Apps. After some quick googling, I set up an acct by going through Calendar instead of Mail on the Pre (some reported problems online). Just selected Google acct and added user@domain.com/password and it started working. - Jauder Ho