This weekend I switched over from Postfix to Google Apps (standard edition) to handle @ellipsix.net email addresses. Very quick and easy, yay :-)

Why’d I do it? Not for any particularly weighty reason — Postfix was doing just fine as an SMTP server. I just thought it’d be nicer to have a separate account for mail that comes through the website, and all Postfix could do was forward emails to my regular Gmail account — unless I were to set up an IMAP or POP server of my own, and even then I’d miss out on Gmail’s nifty UI.

Plus, there is one feature I really like about Gmail that I haven’t seen in any other webmail system. Messages that I send from my laptop or phone through Gmail’s SMTP server show up as sent messages when I log in online. It’s tremendously useful not to be missing half of a conversation when I want to send emails from a public computer.