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With no way of migrating Android purchases, along with mountains of other data that is tied to my Google Account, I finally gave in and shifted my email from first@last.us to first.last@gmail.com. To be honest, I'm tired of managing my own email as well, even through Google Apps which I had configured for last.us.

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I have my first@last.com just forward to my gmail address and hen set up gmail to send as the other account. That way, I keep my vanity and my sanity.

I used to do this too. My experience has been that certain email clients (Outlook on Windows, for one) will render your email address as

  first@last.us (sent by first.last@gmail.com)

Clearly not desirable, and in my case, unacceptable. I actually switched from the GMail webapp to multiple accounts in Mail.app for this reason alone. I miss the webapp, though.

Interesting, I'm totally OK with that representation. I guess I'm not quite as vain as my vanity domain name would imply :) as long as my business cards look awesome (they do) that's all I really care about.

You should be able to avoid this by setting up Gmail to use a different SMTP server:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=m...

(Click "I'm a Gmail or Google Apps user sending from an external address", then search for "on behalf of".)

Back on the webapp now. Thanks!

That doesn't work on mobile Gmail or Gmail via IMAP (like on iPhone Mail, for example). So it's a non-starter for me.

I've just about reached that frustration point as well. Any regrets with the move?

No. I couldn't be happier. I have my gmail account setup to pull all of my email out of my other accounts (school and first@last) automatically. (They all get marked as unread since its POP, but that's okay; it's better than manually forwarding all the mail since I want to keep the old stuff. Not even sure if that's possible). So all my mail got migrated and is continually migrated so the other accounts stay empty.

The labeling feature, instantaneous syncing to my phone, search, etc... all the reasons gmail rocks, but now for all of my email. My mail is auto labeled when it is pulled through POP so I still know what account it was sent to, plus I'm already feeling way more on top of my inbox because I keep my email color labeled by project, etc. Sooooo nice.

The Android Gmail app sync is so fast that it gets to my phone before the browser extension tells me I have mail.

For me, yes. You lose all of your vanity URLs from Profiles, Youtube, Blogger, etc because you can't move those to your new account. You'll still have to manage 2 Google Accounts. Everything actually becomes MORE difficult because managing multiple accounts using the new "Multiple Sign on" feature is terrible. You constantly have to switch between accounts and many times if you switch accounts in one tab, a previously open tab is still in your other account. If you try to Compose Email, or Add a Cal Event, or something else, you'll get prompted for errors because Google doesn't know which account you're on.

This is terrible for Youtube (which isn't compatible with Multiple Sign on).

These new transitioned accounts are a complete disaster for existing users who have been using Google services. You can't merge your accounts at all, so plan on managing multiple accounts. It's sad too because the existing users were the ones who cried out for help on Google's forums. Existing users are the ones with the problems that need to be solved. Unfortunately these new transitioned Apps account do nothing for us...

Uh, we were talking about ditching the custom domain and pulling everything into a regular @gmail account.

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