The older I get the longer it takes me to latch onto the latest fads. I finally decided to fully investigate the domain specific Gmail offerings. I have been a Gmail user from back in the day when receiving an invite to join Gmail was like winning a prize. I migrated my email for this domain to Gmail and the process was pretty painless. The main change I had to to was to change the my CNAME entry for mail.mahalasoft.co.za to ghs.google.com. Before the none techies run off, you can ask your web hosting company to do this for you which is what I did. The rest of the setup was simply filling in some forms similar to creating a new account on Gmail. After making the CNAME change you may have to wait for a day or so for the change to reflect across the Internet. To access my mail I simply go to http://mail.mahalasoft.co.za.Using Gmail Standard Edition, at the time of writing you get 7GB of storage. You also get all the goodies associated with Gmail such as a mobile client, Googletalk for your domain, Google Apps enabling you to share and collaborate on documents. Creating new accounts for other users is easy and straight forward. You can also enable the off line feature for Gmail to access your mail off line. The Standard Edition is free and allows for up to 50 email addresses. The Enterprise Edition priced at US$50. This offers more storage, 25GB, no advertising, some migration tools and allows for up to 250 email addresses.The biggest con to using Gmail is that your data will reside on Google servers. If you ask me for a small startup this is the best way to handle manage you mail.Related articles by Zemanta:

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