samran Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Hi Everyone, Does anyone have any experience with G-Suite? I'm looking at transferring my email over to there as I've been having some issues with my current provider. What I'm wondering about is it possible, while I trial it, to only switch my email over (ie [email protected]) and leave my employees emails with the current server. The way my IT guy is explaining it is that I have to take them all over given the setting changes he has to make and I'm not sure I want to do this. Any tips/experience would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamb00ler Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 The first problem you need to solve is getting all the individual email messages that you want included in G-Suite exported from your current server. Find out in what format(s) your emails can be saved. Then find out if that format can them be imported into G-Suite. How do you currently access the email stored with your current server? Do you use a special email program or is your access to them through a browser interface? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Ask you IT guy to setup forwarding of (just) your mail to gmail...or if still "not possible"setup a (new) test gmail address for yourself to trial without effecting you work address. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samran Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 1 hour ago, gamb00ler said: The first problem you need to solve is getting all the individual email messages that you want included in G-Suite exported from your current server. Find out in what format(s) your emails can be saved. Then find out if that format can them be imported into G-Suite. How do you currently access the email stored with your current server? Do you use a special email program or is your access to them through a browser interface? Thanks to you both. I'll try to explain the best I can. For your question, I use outlook on windows 10 and simply download all the emails to my main PC. No need to transfer any old emails from the server. So hopefully that simplifies things 1 hour ago, johng said: Ask you IT guy to setup forwarding of (just) your mail to gmail...or if still "not possible" setup a (new) test gmail address for yourself to trial without effecting you work address. I run a small business, and I have my email plus that for 2 employees. I guess what I'm asking is if the two emails for the employees can stay outside of the G-Suite universe while I trial my own work one within it. My IT guy says this is not possible, and while he is a good guy and usually pretty confident on his work, I just wanted to make sure the two emails of my employees can continue to function with my original server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattayapip Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 If all 3 of your emails are the same domain, for example @samran.com then no, you cant have the domain registered/hosted in 2 different places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samran Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 28 minutes ago, pattayapip said: If all 3 of your emails are the same domain, for example @samran.com then no, you cant have the domain registered/hosted in 2 different places Thanks for confirming. Frustrating, but I guess it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisinth Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 It should be possible to forward your emails from your email server to an address you setup in G-Suite for the purpose of a trial anyway. When setting up forwarding make sure you keep the original on the mail server. That way at least you keep a copy of your mail (in the g-suite) if disaster happens. Drawback to this would be you may not be able to reply from the original mail's address. Ie, if you forward [email protected] to [email protected] you may only be able to reply from the later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clokwise Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 FWIW, G-Suite mail is 99.9% the same as a normal free Gmail account. So you could just setup a free gmail account and do your testing with it. If you're satisfied with it, you'll be fine with G-Suite. I use G-Suite for my personal email domain (I have a grandfathered free domain) and when I initially migrated over I imported my Outlook emails into the account going back to 1995. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedCardinal Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 I use it for all businesses I'm involved with. Very good service. Also good discounted rate for Asian countries from monthly $5 p.u. to $3 p.u. Prices will be going up start of next month, so you can lock in annual rate now. In answer to your questions about all or nothing - you could set up a forwarder for your own account, but I suspect you will not be able to get full usage this way. Migrating all emails to them for the trial, and then to a different provider if you're unhappy should be trivial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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