Mass Programming Resistance is hosted on a little virtual private server. Recently my poor old server fell over. The disk filled up with spam and bounce notices from GMail. crossjam.net dropped off the net.
So I signed up for the Google Apps, Standard Edition and outsourced my e-mail server needs. Besides the spam deluge I was facing, I was mostly motivated by Gina Trapani documenting the ease with which the whole thing could be set up. She’s also got a deeper dive into how to configure Google Apps for Your Domain.
So far so good, but I need to jerry rig a way to forward my good e-mail out of GMail and into my own server as a mail backup mechanism.