Archive for the 'Gmail' Category

Completing the Picture : Gmail and IMAP

Published October 24th, 2007 in Technical and Gmail. 0 Comments

Sometime last night Google unveiled IMAP support for Gmail (and Google Apps). This is huge. This makes Google Apps a viable business solution and it makes Gmail a great email aggregator. Here is what this means for me :

  • My desktop, laptop, and iPhone all share the same Sent box / Drafts / email
  • Gmail still manages all of my filters, so I don’t have rule synchronization issues
  • If I am out and about in the world (on campus or at the library), I have access to all the same resources

Continue reading ‘Completing the Picture : Gmail and IMAP’

My Move to Google Apps

Published March 28th, 2007 in Technical, Productivity and Gmail. 2 Comments

Well, I did it. I bit the bullet and turned my gmail account into a meta-account managing all my other email addresses. The experience has left me feeling happy, yet still strangely wanting more. You can read about my impressions of Gmail in my next post.

I’m slowly thinking about transitioning the karulf.com domain from dreamhost to Google apps. For those not in the know, Google Apps lets you run run any or all of Google’s “applications” on your own domain. There are a few differences, but the accounts basically act like a GMail account. This would be a welcomed change from Dreamhost, where the servers are flaky at best. I’d be fine moving over to Google Apps, the problem is, I don’t want to transfer all of my domain, just… most of it.

Here are the services I would move

  • Email ( and webmail )
  • Main webpage (www.karulf.com)
  • Jabber
  • Calendar Support

Here are the services I am keeping on dreamhost (or personal servers)

  • My blog (erik.karulf.com)
  • Subversion (some of my projects aren’t open source)
  • Dynamic DNS to my home computers

After some research, I found out how I would do it. This post is probably only useful to me, but to that end it will be invaluable.
Configure Dreamhost’s DNS servers with the following values

  • Main Site
    • CNAME
      www-google –> ghs.google.com
    • Dreamhost Specific: Dreamhost will not let you confiure the DNS entries for www or your root level domain (eg. www.karulf.com and karulf.com). They will let you configure those sites to redirect to another URL. I have mine redirect to www-google.karulf.com
  • calendar — [ CNAME ] –> ghs.google.com
  • start — [ CNAME ] –> ghs.google.com
  • docs — [ CNAME ] –> ghs.google.com
  • Email
    • MX Aliases (Google Help)
      MailServer Hostname: Priority
      ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 10
      ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. 30
      ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 50
      ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM. 70
    • SPF Record (Google Help): 
      v=spf1 include:aspmx.googlemail.com ~all.
  • Jabber SRV Records (Google Help) 
    _xmpp-server._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp.karulf.com. IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

Categories

Social Networking

Lijit Search