Google Apps for NPO

[Sigma721]

Hi everyone

I am currently working at a large NPO organisation in Cape Town(I am in finance). The organisation is currently having some issues with its old email system and I started digging around looking for an alternative, I have come across Google Apps for NPO's. I currently have one of my business email accounts hosted with Gmail(simply pointing MX record to Google). I am not sure how much of a mission it is to move all existing email accounts(with stored emails) to Gmail.

Has anyone had experience with this at all?

Any tips welcome!

Thanks in advance

 

[ElecEng]

it is a bit of a mission as mailbox sizes can be quite large and upload speeds quite low.

 

[rrh]

Why not go to someone like EliteHost.co.za, register a domain and have them handle your email ?

The cost is minimal.

 

[Sigma721]

Why not go to someone like EliteHost.co.za, register a domain and have them handle your email ?

The cost is minimal.

The organisation needs to make use of Google docs, so instead of everyone using personal email accounts, it would be better to keep it in one domain.

 

[InTheCube]

You'll want to deal with a local Google Apps reseller / Google partner in order to get things going.

One that pops into mind is Tradepage / CloudGroup - http://www.tradepage.co.za/google-apps-for-business/. If they can't help you directly, I'm sure they'll at least be able to advise you how to proceed.