From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nx0WG-00069t-3i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:11:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69255E09CF; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15785E096F for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [67.40.138.82] (crater.wildlava.net [67.40.138.82]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14E781B4027 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:11:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4BB37432.8090302@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:11:30 -0600 From: Joe Peterson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100313 Thunderbird/3.0.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Google Apps Standard Edition @ gentoo.org References: <201003310211.04930.vapier@gentoo.org> <201003310418.02009.vapier@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201003310418.02009.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 55f57498-825d-4ab5-9ff9-6cae7d4f2226 X-Archives-Hash: 9142fadd493dca94f92388cbc54e6528 On 03/31/2010 02:18 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > i'm already using ~/.forward which means mail still goes to mail.g.o and that > server takes care of forwarding it to my private gmail.com account. then my > mail client fetches it from gmail.com via the normal pop/imap methods. there > is no need to share passwords between gmail.com and g.o. > > so i dont see what advantage this process ive been using for years has over > this method. they look pretty much equivalent. > -mike Hey Mike, You are right that what you are doing gives you the ability to use gmail for this. However, there's one key thing that turning on Standard Edition does: It's a "Google Apps" account, not just a Gmail account. You cannot have more than one gmail account open in your browser at one time - the cookies are not separate. Whereas you *can* have your gmail and all of your google apps accounts (in different domains) open at one time. Those, like me, who have several google apps accounts (I have a personal business one, a personal one, and a work one) can keep accounts separate this way. Also, since it's the "gentoo.org" google apps account, the email address looks the same as your gentoo address (rather than foo-gentoo@gmail.com, etc.). What Alec was asking is why not turn on the feature. It just enables more functionality for those who want to use it. It just requires we verify that we "own" gentoo.org. -Joe