I recently switched over the mailer on a project to use the gmail to send the apps emails. It is pretty well documented how get rails setup with gmail, (here and here), though you wish actionmailer could handle gmail out of the box. This could make a nice little plugin, if I get the will.
I didn’t want the email flowing through tkofol@gmail.com, so I decided to setup a google apps for you domain account. This would allow me to use something like do-not-reply@landscapesurvey.com and it would let me try out google apps.
Setting google apps for your domain was pretty easy, you just need to know how to mess around with your DNS settings or be willing to learn. I was willing to learn.
What you get is a really cool suite of webapps that if I had a small biz would be perfect. One its free, two it gives something like 100 people email accounts that end in your domain. It also has google’s word processing and excel type apps. It’s pretty solid though the online word processing and excel, still need to mature a little bit. But it is worth it just for the email accounts!
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