Use Google Apps Gmail with Postini

This update introduces a new feature that makes it easy to route your email traffic through Postini to Google Apps Gmail. The new “Use Google Apps Gmail” feature in the Administration Console helps optimize delivery to Google Apps, or pilot Google Apps Gmail for a small group of users.

Use Cases

More information on use cases will be available in the Administration Guide when the feature is released.

Piloting Google Apps Premier and Education Edition: You can use the feature to route email for a portion of your users to pilot Google Apps Gmail or as you migrate groups of users to Google Apps Gmail. To set up a split delivery pilot, create a new email config organization that uses Google Apps Gmail, then move pilot users to a user org under your new email config.

Optimizing delivery to Google Apps: If you've already configured your email delivery to Google Apps Gmail, you can keep your current settings or use the new routing feature. With the new routing feature, Postini Delivery Manager automatically synchronizes with the Gmail servers and shares spam information for Gmail processing.

System Requirements

To use the Google Apps Gmail feature, you will need the following:

Postini account with access to an Email Config organization.

Any edition of Google Apps for your domain. You must set up your domain beforehand in Google Apps.

If you want Postini to process outbound mail as well, this option is available only with Google Apps Premier or Education Edition and is configured in the Google Apps Control Panel.

Setup

Set up the new Gmail routing feature in the Postini Administration Console, and then configure outbound and other settings (such as SPF and IP Whitelisting) in Google Apps control panel. When the Gmail routing feature is released, you can find step-by-step setup instructions in the Message Security Administration Guide.

For a complete set up of Google Apps and Postini:

1.	Set up your domain and users in Google Apps Control Panel.

2.	Set up inbound mail with Use Google Apps Gmail in the Postini Administration Console, under Delivery Manager > Edit.

3.	Set up outbound mail in the Google Apps Control Panel if desired.

4.	Set up other Google Apps mail settings, such as SPF and Whitelisting, if desired.

To use the new inbound Gmail routing feature, go to Delivery Manager > Edit in the Administration Console.

Mail flow will route to Gmail immediately after you save your changes, and you can change back just as quickly.

Important: If you activated the Postini for Google Apps service through the Google Apps control panel, this feature do not apply -- no action is required. The Postini service automatically takes care of routing to Google Apps in the background.