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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 abawany »

theossuary wrote: post #226

I'm definitely getting screwed over by this. I've hosted close friend's and family's email for a decade now on an old G Apps instance. We only ever used it for email on a custom domain. It was most useful because I could reset passwords for them if they forgot it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do. Microsoft's Family offering is way better (not saying much considering Google doesn't have one). Right now…

I've had good experiences with Mailbox.org - the basic plan supports multiple domains with wildcards. Also, a neat free option is Seznam.cz though I don't have considerable personal experience with the domain feature on it.

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Post by pronoiac »

ADent wrote: post #235
halostatue wrote: post #113

Does anyone have any recommendations on _easy and inexpensive_ ways to migrate an entire family off this (6–7 users)? The value we get is _not_ worth ~$500 US per year. I don’t need a full business suite. I mostly need the email and calendar. I’d need to poll other people whether they use Google Drive or not.

I am using MXRoute.com. They have a lifetime account with unlimited addresses and some limits. Looks like the price has gone up since I signed up, but so did the storage included.

I've wanted to explore them for a while, but haven't gotten around to it. Does it deliver to gmail and others ok, or does it go to spam?

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Post by stephc_int13 »

Starting to pay for something that used to be free for so long is always weird.

But I'd consider it if it was not Google.

I simply don't trust them.

This is not even about their corporate evilness or their bullying market dominance.

I don't trust their engineering values and I don't trust their future business decisions, this is not stable enough to use as a business tool.

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Post by unmole »

theossuary wrote: post #226

I'm definitely getting screwed over by this. I've hosted close friend's and family's email for a decade now on an old G Apps instance. We only ever used it for email on a custom domain. It was most useful because I could reset passwords for them if they forgot it. Now I'm going to have to figure out what to do. Microsoft's Family offering is way better (not saying much considering Google doesn't have one). Right now…

> The loss of Youtube purchases; android play purchases, etc. is going to hurt.

If you migrate to a different email provider, you won't lose access to any of your purchases.

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Post by billatq »

ineedasername wrote: post #544
signal11 wrote: post #499

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month? It’s easy to paint customers as frightful moaners, but that’s a surefire way to lose customers, or at least alienate them. Google’s Reader debacle comes to mind. In particular, the short notice period (3 months + 2 months grace) for something people have been using for a decade is…

Back when I was using Apple I paid for an @mac.com address. I could get used to paying for email again, though I may be in the minority there. Although being a paid product didn't stop Apple from killing it.

I don't mind paying for e-mail personally. There's a lot of odds and ends stuff you have to deal with operationally if you self-host, and most of the places that charge you don't display ads.

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Post by patrickdavey »

Does anyone know how this works with "catch all" domain handling.

For years I have used FOO.org address with a legacy free edition. I always create service@foo.org email addresses, and they all drop through to the catch-all domain.

Can I just register the one address "patrick@foo.org" and have all the addresses still just fall through as normal? What a nightmare :(

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Post by burnte »

patrickdavey wrote: post #566

Does anyone know how this works with "catch all" domain handling. For years I have used FOO.org address with a legacy free edition. I always create service@foo.org email addresses, and they all drop through to the catch-all domain. Can I just register the one address "patrick@foo.org" and have all the addresses still just fall through as normal? What a nightmare :(

I never moved to the free GSuite and I'm glad. I have everything at my domain forward to me@mydomain.com and that goes to my gmail address. Then GMail is set up to send mail out through my domain's email server to retain the illusion.

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Post by Aeolun »

I feel like it would have been clear by now that anyone still expecting their Google account to be a safe store of any form of value was going to be dissapointed.

Moved everything off of Google a few years ago and much happier for it. I certainly don’t have to worry when one of these threads inevitably appears every 3 months or so.

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Post by doctoboggan »

thiele wrote: post #416
fitblipper wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am kind of in the same position. I have 4 people using our custom domain for email only given the pain google put on these accounts. They've each setup their custom domain email account to forward to their individual free gmail accounts. Does anyone have a recommendation for a new email service I can point my domain MX records at? I only need email forwarding for these 4 users using my domain and a catchall email f…

I forward emails for custom domains from my registrars (Namecheap and GoDaddy) to Gmail. Then you can use a free Zoho account that lets you send email from your custom domain from within you Gmail account (sent via Zoho's email servers). It's a bit of work to set up but then you can do everything from within Gmail seamlessly. I think this is the tutorial I followed years ago: https://medium.com/@raymondgh/how-to-set-…

Do you have any problems with email delivery (being marked as spam) using this technique?

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Post by jrochkind1 »

Uh oh, I think I have one of these. I somehow have my own custom domain pointing to gmail, for free, that I don't actually remember how I even got it, I've had it for years, but never have paid for it. That's all I do with this... whatever it is, email on a custom domain, I don't use anything else.

I didn't receive any email this morning notifying me about it though.

I guess maybe it's finally time to move to fastmail. I'm not giving up a custom domain email address. I don't like that I'll lose access to giant archive of received email.

Is there a way to export all my archive/inbox from gmail? Import into fastmail? It looks like... maybe. But the fact that I'm trying to keep the same domain is going to complicate things maybe, since I can't easily have them both active at once to import from one to the other.

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