Last week I finally gave in and moved all my email infrastructure over to be hosted by Google Apps. Dominic and I were discussing email over lunch last week and he convinced me this was the way to go. It simply isn’t worth the time and hassle of self-hosting. Google has better uptime, a much nicer web-UI, and is considerably more effective in fighting spam.

Setup was easy and importing my current email was as easy as a drag and drop between mailboxes. So far the only drawback I see is that I need to rework my moblogging script since I can’t trigger it via procmail anymore.

5ThirtyOne has a nice guide to setting up Mail.app optimally to work with Gmail via IMAP.