Andy Gambles

Wow. Nice Tip... I also have same configuration as you are..Will try the desktop feature in this minute! :D

Let me know if you get it working

Did not know this, Thanks for this. One other thing that bothers me about using gmail over Outlook (or Lotus, etc) is working with attachments. If you have to put the attachment from a message in another message, you have to save to desktop, then attach, etc. I wish you could do drag and drops

@shahryar Probably a limitation of being web based. But you can make a suggestion at http://bit.ly/2DsRYa -

Just did Andy,thanks for the link

"make working with attachments a little easier. I hate when I get an attachment, I have to save to my computer and then attach to a different email.

Also don't auto make my emails conversations. Sometimes, I like them to be separate. Sometimes, I like emails with different subjects to be part of the same conversation"

still not working, I still get a Gmail account log-in

Scott - did you download the Google Apps Desktop from within your Google Apps account?

Thanks for taking the time to write this post. I found it in a google search and it works like a charm. I love tea too!

@dantelayton Glad you found it useful.

excellent help. This was driving me nuts. There's all kinds of stuff out there that says gmail notifier does not work with Google Apps but this is the only place I've found a solution for the default email issue. Thanks for taking the time to point it out.

Joey - Glad you found the article useful. Good to know it was worth posting!

Thank you for this helpful tip! Our office just migrated from Outlook to Gmail and we were getting a lot of requests to set this up. This was very helpful and it was easy to setup.

perfect!
alex at skeptiko.com

Thank you!!!!!! Google help doesn't even suggest this and I've been frustrated ever since I switched to apps, now I'm totally in love with it as long as my Google Talk as the notifier works...Thank you again for posting this!

The app will install on a windows 2000 OS but Chrome will not install so it's a no go for me.

I keep getting a message when I click on a mail-to link in IE, saying I need to have Chrome installed? - Our office prefer not to use Chrome - any workaround / suggestions would be much appreciated

I may be slow...
You said 'Once this is installed you can set your default email client to "Gmail: A Google approach to email".'
But how do you do it? I can launch the email into a chrome window, but what then?

Thanks
Jim

@jim For windows systems: Launch the Internet Options dialogue for your system. This is available in the Control Panel.

Under the Programs tab you can select gmail as the default mail client.

Andy,

Thanks for the response. After I posted the question I did find how to do it, but I still can't get it to work from programs like adobe reader or our accounting program. It does work from a web page link.
I used to get an error message from outlook, so I removed outlook and reinstalled the Apps. Now it works from the web page link , but from reader I get a "error occurred while sending mail" message and from our accounting program the message is " email session could not be started. Please check your MAPI installation."

So I'm not sure where to go next.
Any ideas.

Thanks
Jim Haskin
R&F Handmade Paints, inc.
www.rfpaints.com

I think it is to do with how adobe works and requires an actual program to launch. Best thing to do would be to ask Adobe.

Sorry i could not be of more help.