Originally Posted by
cblaisd
OK, if this is better suited to PM, I'm happy to take it there
Nosing around, Google Domains does look promising. But I have questions....
Here is how my email is currently set up
I have mydomain.net purchased through DomainDirect.com. It gives me five email aliases. These are set up as follows
[email protected] forwards to a pop3 box on my "real" isp
[email protected] forwards to another pop3 box on my "real" isp
[email protected] forwards to whatever her current real email is
[email protected] forwards to whatever his current real email is
Moving through the Google Domain process, the first thing it tells me is that it (or I) will need to do some messing with my DNS settings via my domain name registrar. OK, I can do that.
But my big question is in regards to son/daughter -- will all of their outgoing smtp mail now be trying to use Google as their smtp server?
I don't want to mess them up.
Yes, you change the email settings at your registrar, you can make the change for just email so your website stays unaffected. They can use whatever SMTP server they want but I'd suggest switching them to the google SMTP simply because it is really reliable.
Pros of Google for domains:
It's free, it has an AWESOME spam filter, it can POP email from other accounts and merge it into your main account, it can forward email anywhere you want, it's accessible on a mobile device, it archives all your email at the same time, it offers calendars for all the users, it has 2.5Gb of storage.