Importing contacts from gmail account, setting up mail URL to mail.yourdomain.com

Importing Contacts from gmail account

The first lesson I sent to the users was "How to import contacts from gmail account".

Click on contacts Tab in gmail account
Select the contacts you would like to export
Click on Groups and select New Group
Name the group mydomain
Click on Export tab (in right hand corner)
In who do you want to export select the group mydomain
Select Google CSV Format
Click on Export
Save the file on your PC.

In your domain mail account
Click on Contacts Tab
Click on import
Click on browse and select the file from your PC
Click on import

Setting up mail URL to mail.yourdomain.com

I had sent the URL for login to the mail account which was mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com For setting up simple URL mail.yourdomain.com I had to change the CNAME record of 'mail' to point to 'ghs.google.com' in our Godaddy account. At the same time I created CNAME records for 'calender' 'sites' 'www' and set them to point to 'ghs.google.com'

Then I logged in to my administrator Dashboard for Google Applications for the domain and changed the URL to mail.yourdomain.com sites.yourdomain.com etc.