Google Apps offering API for email integration...

u2wedge

Is this something that can be easily integrated into the Vanilla login page to allow for seamless access to Gmail? Not sure if I'm asking the right question... http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions.html Gmail APIs to integrate with your existing infrastructure - Single sign-on - User provisioning and management - Support for email gateway

birdmanx35

I don't doubt it's possibility

MySchizoBuddy

yup right after u pay $50/user/year for it :)

TomTester

Schiz, I'm using Google apps for domains and it really is worth some money.

$50 a user a year is a lot for free communities, but NOT for a company that no longer
needs to update PCs with the latest M$ patches, or even pay the licensing fees on
exchange server... IMHO their stuff provides 80% of the functionality at 20% of the
cost. It's not exchange, but not everyone needs exchange ( 20% do?! :-) ).

Wedge, RE: integration
Is your goal to use google authentication to enable/replace vanilla authentication?

If so, some clues for implementation are here:
http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApps.html
http://code.google.com/apis/apps/sso/saml_reference_implementation.html

I'd prefer openID any day, but ONLY if I could host the openID data on MY server.

Interesting article in this context:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_vs_bigco.php