Our Domain Emails to Gmail - How do you do this?

[Freelancer87]

Hello,

I have noticed on many occassions that when people send me an email to our business email account it says something like -

"[email protected] on behalf of Joe Blogs <[email protected]"

How do people do this?

I can see one advantage of doing this because I could use any computer or mobile device to log into my Gmail account and check my business emails. Our current set up would require me to lug around my laptop.

Does this have something to do with the domain mapping options?

Are there any disadvantages to doing it this way? Will the original email still 'live' on our business server so it can be retrieved via Outlook 2010?

Any help or direction would be appreciated!

All the best,

Dave

 

[fisicx]

If you have a decent host then you can set up [email protected] and access through webmail, smartphone or outlook. You can have a imap account so that all three sync.

If you have cpanel then it takes about a minute to set up.

 

[Freelancer87]

If you have a decent host then you can set up [email protected] and access through webmail, smartphone or outlook. You can have a imap account so that all three sync.

If you have cpanel then it takes about a minute to set up.

Hello,

My current account is set up as IMAP even though I don't have a smartphone.

My current set up is fine...but my colleague has some random intermittant problems when using Outlook while he travels. The problems occur when mostly from hotel networks....but that's a whole other issue. What I have done as a temporary solution is set up a GMail account and forward his work emails to this newly created GMail account.

With that being said, I thought about the scenario I mentioned above.

Thanks for the info....do you know about the 'on behalf of'?

All the best,

Dave

 

[OldWelshGuy]

you can use Gmail as a POP3

 

[Freelancer87]

you can use Gmail as a POP3

Hey OWG,

Sorry for my lack of knowledge of this one but is that something I set up from Gmail only or do I also need to make some changes to Outlook 2010 and/or email control panel?

As this is only a temp solution that we would active when he travels, would this have an adverse affect on his work email account?

Thanks for any time and effort put into an answer.

All the best,

Dave

 

[OldWelshGuy]

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273

 

[Freelancer87]

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13273

Thanks for the direction....that's what I was after. I didn't know if I was asking the right question!

Cheers,

Dave

 

[fixedit]

Look up google apps, it can run up to 10 accounts for free, gives you all the functionality of google mail/calendar etc but with your domain instead of Gmail.

I would post links but I'm not allowed yet.