.Net Jonesie - Goodbye Outlook, Hello Google

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Enough is enough. Outlook 2007 on my Notebook is just way too slow and bloated. In fact it's also causing me greif on my work desktop. I'm sure it's hardware and/or OS related (Vista on the Notebook and 2003 at work) but I just cant be bothered any more.

So, I've migrated my domain email to Google Apps so I can dump Outlook. Time will tell if this was a good move or not - I'm not a fan of using Web apps for mail and desktop type work but there doesn't seem to be any other choice.

The only problem I have now is hooking up dasBlog to Google Mail. I sometimes use email to post blog posts but I generally use Windows Live Writer. I can't get this working with dasBlog 1.8 at present - the SMTP notifications also fail. If anyone out there knows the settings to get this working,I'd love to know!

Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:17:10 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Comments [5] |

Sunday, April 15, 2007 5:58:06 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

yay! Another one! :)

If you want to post from the email thing, you may be out of luck - gmail only exposes secure POP, and dasblog only does insecure pop :)

For the output, ie to get comment notifications, set the outgoing SMTP to aspmx.l.google.com - works for me.

:)

We'll have you on a mac next....