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Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying

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Post by sigzero »

killerpopiller wrote: post #94
herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

I am happy with MS 365

I already pay yearly for the apps. I can roll that cost in and it might be fine.

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Post by jtc331 »

I've got multiple domains on "G Suite legacy" which the admin console claims have been around since March of 2013. Given the article references December 6, 2012 as the date they stopped offering this I'm wondering if I somehow have a different product that wasn't sunset?

The name is exactly what's referenced in this article, but I've received no notice, and I don't see any warnings on admin.google.com for these accounts.

What gives?

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Post by SergeAx »

wodenokoto wrote: post #122
herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

If you’re not using the productivity suite (docs, drive, sheets and whatnot) why not go with the little guy and use Fastmail? $5/user with 30gb or 100gb per user for $9/month Their support replies faster than google :)

Why migrate to Fastmail for $5/user, if one can keep their installation of G Suite for $6/user?

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Post by redleggedfrog »

edoceo wrote: post #190
q1w2 wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

99% of the users of the free product just wanted to have their group/family/etc to use gmail with a custom domain. That product is still free at other providers. We'll just be moving.

It will cost you dozens of hours to move your 10+ years of digital stuff. The big G has done a real pinch here.

In my case it won't, because, of course, it's all backed up locally. This Google outfit can be pretty sketchy at times - needed to make sure they didn't close down and take my stuff.

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Post by SergeAx »

herodoturtle wrote: post #91

What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…

G Suite Business Starter is $6/user. Even if you find something viable for, say, $3/user (and I really doubt so), it just not worth the fuss with migration.

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Post by arbitrage »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #194

I'm affected and will move to another provider; does anybody has tips/insights how to export all those Emails and make them searchable - probably offline only, I just still want to be able to access 10+ years of mails. Moving them over to another email provider is not required.

Using Thunderbird, create a new local mail account.

Connect to your gmail account using IMAP.

Drag & drop your emails from the original account to your local mailbox in Thunderbird. This process may require a little bit of babysitting, or work flawlessly without a hitch, I've seen both outcomes doing this for folks over the years.

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Post by seanwilson »

Octopuz wrote: post #153
seanwilson wrote: post #141

Hmm, if you're using x@example.com via G Suite, how do you transition away from G Suite but still use x@example.com to login to your Android phone and other Google sign-in related stuff? Anything you need to be careful of so you don't get locked out?

Either become a nonprofit or delete the account in G Suite and recreate it as a free regular Google account after the domain name has been removed from G Suite.

> recreate it as a free regular Google account after the domain name has been removed from G Suite

How though? Create x@gmail.com and copy your old emails into it, change your domain settings to stop pointing to G Suite and forward x@example.com to x@gmail.com instead, cancel your example.com G Suite and your email should still be working....

But then what happens to apps and Android login that are connected to your x@example.com Google SSO login? You can connect this up to x@gmail.com?

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