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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 drekipus »

themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

maybe improvmx will help you? it provides email forwarding to any alias + domain you own.

(not affiliated or anything, just like and use this service myself for similar reasons)

It's free for 1 domain.

https://improvmx.com/

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

Uh, Google Apps started in 2006. Not quite twenty years.

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

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Post by dwhitston »

bryanlarsen wrote: post #748
themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

Is it a surprise? It's been almost a decade since Google stopped offering this as a free product. The writing has been on the wall for over 9 years.

It's an extremely unpleasant surprise that they'd do it without offering any form of migration to personal gmail accounts. I've been waiting on a proper migration route for the past decade, with some unhappiness given Google Apps was originally marketed as suitable for personal or family use.

My phones, browser history, payments, purchases and more are tied to my GSuite account, and I can't leave without losing all of that. The fact that you apparently don't think we deserve to keep any of that stuff without paying a monthly tax forever doesn't fill me with joy.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #762
themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

Uh, Google Apps started in 2006. Not quite twenty years.

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

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Post by renzo88 »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #762
themadturk wrote: post #739

Well, this is an unpleasant surprise. Most of my family has been on G Suite for nearly 20 years, under a grandfathered-in free account with a custom domain. Six dollars a month is at least $24 a month. Time for everyone to switch to a free account, or look for an alternative that's just as easy. The hard part will be getting email addresses changed, which is why I chose a custom domain to start with...and weaning peo…

Uh, Google Apps started in 2006. Not quite twenty years.

I'd say it's reasonable to call 16 "nearly" 20 years. It certainly rounds off that way.

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

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Post by vesinisa »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #744
rsync wrote: post #743

The correct answer here is takeout + rclone, right ? We're actually writing a detailed HOWTO about this workflow, mostly centered on gmail since you can't interface with gmail (directly) using rclone. Regardless, it is rclone that (in my opinion) makes this quite a bit less impactful.

> The correct answer here is takeout + rclone, right ? Answer to what? You mean for extracting your emails out of gmail?

I had some years ago great success with IMAP migration (downloaded all my emails to home computer from old GMail and then uploaded them back to my new GMail account). All my old emails are indexed and I can search them just like before, they just show the old From/To address.

I also used a label to mark those uploaded emails, so if things would go awry along the way I could always nuke those migrated old emails.

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

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Post by hammyhavoc »

renzo88 wrote: post #766
hammyhavoc wrote: post #762

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh, Google Apps started in 2006. Not quite twenty years.

I'd say it's reasonable to call 16 "nearly" 20 years. It certainly rounds off that way.

It launched August 28 2006. I'd say it's reasonable to call it fifteen years. This is tech.
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