A little gmail help

[kaysesoze]

gmail is not that bad, but the part thats gonna be weird is managing contacts thru gmail.

[benji]

It's a mystery question that I guess will only be answered when the device arrives at my doorstep I only just switched everything over in hopes that it'd work -- someone posted it would on another website:

...A Googler told us the workaround they've been employing is using a separate IMAP mail app for their secondary Gmail accounts, but that still screws you if you've got calendars on multiple Google accounts—like if you've got a hosted Google Apps account for your site and a personal one, you've gotta pick one or the other. This is a technical limitation of Android 1.0, so it should be fixed in the future, but for now, as someone with a work account and a personal one, it definitely stings...

That's a good question. The service manual doesn't go into detail at all on this. I would hope so, but who knows?

[MrGibbage]

gmail is not that bad, but the part thats gonna be weird is managing contacts thru gmail.

Why do you say that? I look forward to having all my contacts managed in one place.

[benji]

It's fine -- I do miss being able to enter birthday and anniversary dates in a contact's record and have it show up in the calendar. Being a longtime Outlook user, it's a huge step backwards to maintain this info separately now

Why do you say that? I look forward to having all my contacts managed in one place.

[insight spinner]

What about if I have my personal domain hosted on Google Apps? I use the Gmail web client now, but login with my personal domain that doesn't end in @gmail.com -- will the Google Apps login work with the G1...?!

I would think it would be the same as using any other domain through your a gmail account. So following the info we all gave Mr. Gibbage should be relevant to your situation.

[MrGibbage]

This to me is worth tracking down an authoritative answer if possible. Will people who use gmail for their domain get their email pushed to the G1? Will they have all funtionality of regular @gmail accounts? Who's got contacts at G?

[Big Al]

Vincent has to, he does with everyone else, lol.

[benji]

I received a response back from Google Apps tech support stating that personal domains hosted via Google Apps are fully supported by Android, and on the G1. I emailed back, confirming they understood the question, and asked again if I'd be able to use my personal domain, hosted on Google Apps, to log into and sync with my G1 -- a prompt response confirmed that yes, personal domains would have the same functionality as @gmail accounts.

This to me is worth tracking down an authoritative answer if possible. Will people who use gmail for their domain get their email pushed to the G1? Will they have all funtionality of regular @gmail accounts? Who's got contacts at G?

[kaysesoze]

It's fine -- I do miss being able to enter birthday and anniversary dates in a contact's record and have it show up in the calendar. Being a longtime Outlook user, it's a huge step backwards to maintain this info separately now

google needs to upgrade their email client for these features, cause I will miss them too...

[benji]

google needs to upgrade their email client for these features, cause I will miss them too...

I hope they do to, but, they more than make up for it with other features. I've been using Gmail for almost a week now, and would have a hard time switching back to Outlook/Exchange. Being able to search through and add public calendars with local events, holidays, etc. is very slick. Those colored labels, filtering, archiving, and threading of the email client are great. I know a lot of it is also in Outlook, but it's more complext to use than Gmail.