SuzieQ Fashion has email now.
I moved the domain onto Google Apps and created the first two inboxes. The team can log in, send mail, and use the company address instead of a personal account.
The email I sent was not a technical manual.
It said the setup was finished, listed the two new addresses, pointed to the login page, and explained that I could create whatever extra aliases they wanted. They only needed to tell me what names to add.
I also sent the temporary password in plain text.
That felt normal in 2010. I am not repeating it here.
I also managed to misspell the company name in the login URL I sent. Excellent technical support. At least the accounts themselves were correct.
The last line was still the same: tell me if anything does not work.
This is a tiny job compared with the systems work taking up most of my week. Reality Check has storage, networks, firewalls, and customers. Peek still has a mobile-network integration that keeps reappearing. SuzieQ needed two inboxes.
The inboxes were the easiest thing on the list.
I have been helping with the technology around the clothing work for a while. Domains, websites, old laptops, software, and whatever other small thing has to work before somebody can get back to the actual business.
There was no launch party for Google Apps. I did not write a strategy. I set up the accounts and sent a short note.
Let me know if you have any issues.
So far, no issues.
The fashion business has email.