Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog

I’m currently Outlook 2007 with an Exchange 2007 server for all my business needs. But of course i also have a private domain (which this blog runs on), and where i have my private e-mail.

For a long time, i’ve used Mutt (a terminal based text e-mail client) to handle all my private mails. It worked great, especially filtering, threading, etc. were very well done. But the disadvantage are obvious. So i’ve searched for a suitable replacement. I’ve tried a variety of clients, but didn’t really like any of them.

Then i’ve tried Gmail. I was quite pleased with it, but it didn’t offer enough storage to hold all my mails. So i’ve subscribed to Google Apps Enterprise, with a single user account, and an approriate forward on my Postfix setup.

Apps Enterprise can use IMAP to migrate your mails from your old server, and tag the mails according to the folders. Worked perfectly, but took around a day (for ~250′000 mails).

So far, i’m quite pleased, even though i’m not really sure if i like Gmail’s threading style. Google talk can also relay incoming mail notifications.

I was unable to use Gmail as my primary MX, because it is impossible to add an E-Mail route (you can add it in the GUI, but it doesn’t get saved). I opened a case about this two weeks ago. No solution yet.