There are still ways to get Free Google Apps accounts. The catch is that it will have an upfront cost and that you have to buy a domain and renew it each year.
Essentially people are selling domain names which just happen to come with a grandfathered free googles apps account. I picked on up a 200 User Grandfathered Free Google Apps account for about $80USD. Search ebay "Free Google Apps" account. I found mine on a forum http://lowendtalk.com/ where a few people were selling them. Used paypal to buy it. The guy even provided me with the google apps login details so I could confirm what I was buying before I paid. Regards Adrian Halid From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Tuesday, 26 November 2013 8:16 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Redirecting to Gmail I use dnsimple (https://dnsimple.com/r/815f183c3ee842 yes that's my referral link, as you get freebies for referrals). I think it costs me like $3 per month. It's brilliant and they have a bunch of templated options. Ie they have one for Google Apps that sets up 21 (just checked) records automagically. You can even register domains through them ($14 per year is pretty cheap!) Like them so much I've been transferring my domains over to them (and you can use their NS for the ones you own but are registered elsewhere). No, Google Apps isn't free anymore but at $50 per year its affordable even for personal use. I use it for business as well. I think how much I save on a mail server (which would eventually become obsolete from a hardware perspective). As for the redirect of email, you need to get your Google Apps account to go and pick up the email (ie as a Pop client would). I think its better than a forward, but that's just me. In your inbox go to the Settings and click the Accounts tab. You can set up Pop accounts there. There's also a Forward tab if you want to do it the other way around I guess... push the mail from your Gmail account. The Accounts tab should let you set up the send as feature (I think, its been a while...) On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net<mailto:g...@mira.net>> wrote: Google Apps doesn't seem to have a free version any more, unless I've missed it. However I've opened a 30 day trial of Google Apps to see if it has the feature to redirect a domain's email to Gmail Now the admin page for my DNS records is nonsensical and I can't find an "advanced" way of adding MX records for Gmail. Now I have both w...@gmail.com<mailto:w...@gmail.com> and w...@herdomain.com.au<mailto:w...@herdomain.com.au> and it all has to go to the first one, so it just gets messier and messier. On top of that we have domains, DNS records and web sites in 5 different companies and I'm trying to figure out how to get them all onto one. One transfer has already stalled because I used the wrong password, and the whole process is turning into a major time-consuming project. Sheesh! -- Greg K
