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Google Apps

After a long time I have my own mail server behind the decision to dispose of DSL line.

The new platform for me is Google apps is a free service available to Google. The specialty here is the use of own domain, in my case "streb.name"

Google offers apps like a "normal" GMail account the following features:

• Gmail with your own domain and an unbeatable SPAM filter
• Google Sites
• Google Docs
• Google Calendar
• Google Contacts
• final and Google Talk (a Jabber account with your own domain)

From the available apps I use currently "only" Gmail and Google Talk with MSN transport to find a list of "open" Jabber servers with transportation is available at: http://www.jabberes.org/servers/

The conversion itself is not much need an example of a zone file for the use of Google apps will be here . Only with Google Talk and Jabber services to other Jabber servers, for example, ICQ or AIM transport, there were some problems but they are resolved in the DNS by the complete lack of SRV records were with me.

After a long time I have my own mail server behind the decision to dispose of DSL line. The new platform for me is Google apps, a free service Google ...