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Google Apps now support mail merge feature for Premier and Education edition users

Google continues to enhance their Google Apps application service as they have now added a new mail merge feature to the users of their Premier and Education edition.

The feature has been designed to enable the administrators to transfer existing mail to the online platform which has been designed to provide a cheaper alternative to mail management solutions.

The company has developed a self-service wizard which would allow the mail administrators to securely transfer mails from other servers supporting IMAP interface to Google Apps based mail accounts.

Incidentally, the IMAP interface is supported by both Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes which are the two most-used corporate e-mail servers.

The company added that this newly added feature would Exchange 2003 though they have yet not tested the service with IBM’s Lotus Notes.

Google also recently said that they are soon going to add a presentation application to its Google Apps lineup by the end of this year. Overall, Google Apps is becoming a pretty potent challenger to the products and services provided by Microsoft and IBM.

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