Google Hosted Email
 

Hey all! I was just wondering how many other BB owners have been able to get hold of a Google Hosted Email account? What's your opinion?

I got selected and am now able to offer @mydomain Gmail accounts to my members. I have to admit it is fantastic; a joy to use and so much better than ANY other member email system in my opinion!

One less resource to worry about as well!

I've beening using it for quite a while now but only for staff members, I think its the best option out there, I think MS offer something similar called live domain? not sure now as I was about to signup but then found google :)

I know I am limited to 25 accounts, which is more than enough I'm not sure at what point they might start charging?

I waited months for a reply (I didn't mind, I wasn't expecting one) - I was overjoyed. They aren't on general distribution on my site yet, I'm limited to 100 accounts. I've given it out to supporting members and bands so far, but plan to use up about 90, and keep a few spare incase I get any staff in future.

I haven't seen or heard anything about the MS offering. Not that I hate MS, I have a Windows Mobile - it's just I get uncomfortable and upset when I think about Hotmail. On that MS suck. I got Hotmail back when it was independant - when it came to MS ownership I was happy for a while... But not for long, they ruined it. I thought I'd be able to keep my Hotmail for life - I feel like that about Google now. In Google I trust heh. :D

I've been approved as well -- I haven't explored it yet.

heres the windows live domains https://domains.live.com/

I just set up all my senior members with accounts last weekend, I'm just trying to figure out how to send them their log in info.

What I find to be very cool is that if you have the Google toolbar and enable the Send with Gmail option, you can change that to use your Google hosted email account.

I just found out about this last week and got approved for an account yesterday so will be setting this up this week, looks great though. I use Gmail for all my personal mail anyway so this could be great for my members.

The fact that they can chat and see each other online should be a great addition too :)

I didn't even know this was out lol :D

if only there was jabber support in vbulletin (jwchat?). that's one of the sexiest features of phpbb IMO. I don't know what jelsoft is waiting for.

Thanks guys, saw this thread, applied and got it this morning, havent explored it yet but looks perfect for our site.:cool:

Tinks