What is Google App for Domains?

Google apps is Complete suite of programs and is suited to small to medium businesses. Google apps is made up of:

• Gmail account for every staff(using your domain name instead of gmail.com).
• Calendar – each staff member can share their calender
• Google docs – online word and spreadsheet. Great for collaborating and sharing documents
• Google sites – create an intranet site for your business for internal access only
• A tool to migrate your outlook emails to gmail

All of the applications are hosted by google online. This means your business does not have to look after any of the infrastructure or backups.

It also means you get the best what Google has to offer in Email (Think superior spam filters, Think big storage per email, Think very good uptime, Think reliable SMTP and more!)

The only difference with Gmail is, this one is custom email for your own branded domain.
(E.g. john@yourcompany.com instead of john@gmail.com)

See an overview of Gmail in Google App (Official Video by Google)

How do I access my email using browsers?

Very Simple, you can access your email by just typing: http://mail.google.com/a/yourcompany.com

You can customize your login address as http://mail.yourcompany.com .

How do I create new email accounts?

1. Login to your Google App Control Panel at http://www.google.com/a/yourcompany.com
2. Enter the new user’s First Name, Last Name, and desired Username in the appropriate fields.
3. Google Apps automatically generates an initial, or temporary, password for each new account you create. If you would like to customize a user’s password, click Set password. Then, enter the password in both fields. Passwords are strongly recommended to be at least 8 characters, especially for optimal use with IMAP or POP.
4. Click Create new user.
5. Click Print instructions or Email instructions.

PS: If you receieve an error message that states Failed to create account, try again shortly. This is a temporary error message that lets you know the user account wasn’t created successfully.

Learn how to create new emails (users) in Google App (Official Video by Google)

Do you experience problem downloading gmail to your desktop email clients?

Below are a few common reasons which can cause trouble downloading mail with Gmail’s POP feature.

1) Please make sure you already Enabling POP setting in Gmail
(See Login to your account using Browsers)
2) Please make sure you already Enabled SSL for the desktop email client

For detailed troubleshooting list

See related Questions
1) What is POP?
2) Learn how to configure POP for Microsoft Outlook (Express), Windows Mail, Thunderbird etc

How do I configure Microsoft Outlook to download the Gmail?

1) Enable Pop in Gmail (You must alwasys enable POP in the Gmail account which you wish to download using email client)
2) Configure your Email Clients based on the software you are using
- I’m using Outlook Express
- I’m using Outlook 2002
- I’m using Outlook 2003
- I’m using Outlook 2007
- I’m using Windows Mail

What is the Sending Limits of Google App Email?

In an effort to fight spam and prevent abuse, Google will temporarily disable your account if you send a message to more than 500 recipients or if you send a large number of undeliverable messages. If you use a POP or IMAP client (Microsoft Outlook or Apple Mail, e.g.), you may only send a message to 100 people at a time. More details please refer this knowledge base on Gmail sending limit.

What’s the different between Google Account vs Google App Account?

Although Google Apps and Google Accounts allow you to access several of the same Google products, they’re actually separate accounts.

What’s a Google Account?

A Google Account is a unified sign-in system that gives you access to a variety of free Google consumer products, including Google Groups, Google Shopping List, Web History, iGoogle, and more. You can also sign in to AdWords, AdSense, and Google Checkout. If you’ve used any of these products before, you already have a Google Account.

If you use Google’s email service, Gmail, then you already have a Google Account. However, it’s not necessary for you to create a Gmail email address to have a Google Account. If you signed up for any Google service in the past with your own email address (example: your_name@rediffmail.com) this account is also a Google Account. In short, if you sign in to any Google product or service, you already have a Google Account.

What is Google Apps?

Google Apps is a suite of Google applications that brings together essential services to help your business. This is a hosted service that lets businesses use a variety of Google products – including Email, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk – on a unique domain (e.g. www.yourcompany.com).

For instance, if you own the domain name example.com, and you sign up for Google Apps services, everyone at your organization will get:

a custom email address (user@example.com)
tools for word processing
spreadsheets and presentations
a shared calendaring system
and more…