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Originally Posted by a_c_s
Does google apps integrate with the stock email somehow, or is it an internet based email solution? I'm still open to suggestions at this point and really appreciate the advice... Thx
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It takes over for your host's e-mail. The mail gets transferred to Google directly, and stored in their Gmail stores. So it's fully accessible through the Gmail interface with all of the benefits of Gmail. Just like Gmail, though, you have full POP3 and IMAP access to it, which allows you to use it like a plain 'ol vanilla web host e-mail account (with some enhancements, such as Gmail's great spam filtering). Very valuable.
As for changing your address in the e-mail address field, if you do this AFTER your account's fully set up, it shouldn't cause any problems. The username/password field are completely separate from that field, so as long as those are set it shouldn't be trying to log you in with the other one. The way we always have to setup IMAP Gmail is to misspell Gmail in the address field so it doesn't set it up automatically for POP, and then go back after it's set up and fix that. Wouldn't work if that e-mail address was required for signing in.