You forgot one important thing.

Google Apps is not for a single account but for multiple users of the same domain so there can be 10, 100, 1000 or more users for only one Google Apps account. Either can have mail, docs, calendar… So Google Apps is for a company.

But I understand the need to combien personal gmail to a Google Apps account that contains only one user. I need it too :p

Bye

I'm not sure I can delete my old gmail account as I've got too many things still going to it, its all forwarding to my apps e-mail. I just want everything to work! I set up a new google account using my apps email but I have got no calendar, docs or mail unless I log back in through the proper apps link.

I can't belive all those intelligent people at Google can't create a simple solution! It can't be that hard. Perhaps they just don't care

I’ve been struggling with this problem for 3 years now – prompted to try and fix it again by the fact that I now have an Android phone, and half of the apps on it use my Apps account, the other half my googlemail account. So I was hopeful that your instructions might finally help me unite the two.

Sadly not to be though – I followed your instructions, but when I try to delete the GMail part of my googlemail account using https://www.google.com/accounts/DeleteMailServiceConfirm I enter my Google Apps email as the “new email address” and it give me the error “A user with the email you specified already exists” – it even gives me a link to a help page explaining how I remove my Google Apps email so that I can carry on using the googlemail (sheesh!)

Any ideas?

I’d just like Google Accounts to be able to take over the redirection of my domain name…

Is this overly simplistic?

Your Google Apps and normal Google accounts are two separate accounts.

I would prefer my Google Apps account to be a superset of a normal Google account, however it is not. If it were, you would be able to login to iGoogle using your Apps account.

Unfortunately Apps is missing things like iGoogle (replaced by nerfed start.your-domain.com) and bookmarks.

Google chose to copy over only some features from normal Google to Apps eg. calendar and docs & spreadsheats.

The bottom line is that you need two accounts to get the whole package ie. a normal Google account and your Google Apps account. What Zoli propose here is to create the normal Google account using the e-mail address matching your Apps account (and *not* establish a mailbox for the normal account).

However, having to use two separate breaks certain things, even though your “username” is the same e-mail address, yourname@your-domain.com.

For instance I cannot use the Google Toolbar to access my bookmarks (from my normal Google account) and at the same time check my mail.

The dual identities also confuses due to the functional overlap. For instance how do I decide where to put my docs & spreadsheets? They can reside in either account.

I hope some day Google will give the option to merge normal and Apps accounts, whose primary e-mail address are identical.

Best regards,
Andreas