Totally agree. I did give them full access. I guess I would say it was an alternative to doing Godaddy forwarding addresses. Since Apps was free, it made sense to just set it up through Google and give them the benefit of having a rock solid system that was doubling as cloud backup.
In the past I've had countless scenarios where clients lost their entire computer, or mobile, and they didn't have any backup. The first thing they want to get back is their email. After digging in, they commonly had forwarders setup via their domain registrar, meaning they effectively had no backups on the server.
Apps was basically the free solution to that, with the added benefit of what you said-- having access via IMAP/SMTP.
Since most of these clients were local/small(one owner) businesses, most of them simply said "can you forward it to my personal email?"
Most of my larger small business clients accessed it like I would-- IMAP/SMTP.
My complain here is that Google wiped these accounts calling them inactive. In my opinion, inactive accounts should have been accounts with zero email activity, not zero login activity. But I guess it's too late now...
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Totally agree. I did give them full access. I guess I would say it was an alternative to doing Godaddy forwarding addresses. Since Apps was free, it made sense to just set it up through Google and give them the benefit of having a rock solid system that was doubling as cloud backup.
In the past I've had countless scenarios where clients lost their entire computer, or mobile, and they didn't have any backup. The first thing they want to get back is their email. After digging in, they commonly had forwarders setup via their domain registrar, meaning they effectively had no backups on the server.
Apps was basically the free solution to that, with the added benefit of what you said-- having access via IMAP/SMTP.
Since most of these clients were local/small(one owner) businesses, most of them simply said "can you forward it to my personal email?"
Most of my larger small business clients accessed it like I would-- IMAP/SMTP.
My complain here is that Google wiped these accounts calling them inactive. In my opinion, inactive accounts should have been accounts with zero email activity, not zero login activity. But I guess it's too late now...