Just a note to all Mainland China users who have adopted Google Apps as their mail client. By now, you may all have heard that Google has been in a rather messy situation with the government. As of today, they have stopped censorship and are starting to relay Google sites to the Hong Kong Google homepage.

If you are using Google Apps, as we are, be sure to have a contingency plan in place to ensure email delivery. Should Google Apps suddenly be blocked, simply go back to your control panel and revert back to the TeraScape MX records on file and enter back in your email addresses.

Edit: Changes in Google Apps apparently no longer let you use a .cn even through the control panel. If this changes, I'll update this article again.

Continuing from this article about setting up Google Apps from China, I'd like to go into details about how to set up Google Apps with a .cn or a .com.cn.

While we run our own servers & such, complete with email packages, we prefer the Gmail way of doing things and have outsourced our personal email accounts to Google Apps. However, we ran into a problem when trying to register for the service from here in China. Google Apps "isn't available in your country".