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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
#802I have four active email users in my free "legacy edition" vanity domain workspace. I am not willing to pay USD4x6x12 per year to have this continue to work. Looking around for the most affordable alternative for four active email accounts brings me to... Microsoft! Microsoft 365 Family Edition. Like a lot of salary drones I use Microsoft products at work, so I get a discount. It is sad to be paying for full Microsof…
Zoho Mail si probably the cheapest you can find for limited users and custom domains
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#803I find the outrage here quite amazing. This tier has been deprecated for about 10 years already. Furthermore, the costs to upgrade are not egregious, most everyone here would not have a big problem with it. Also, it's not like one is losing one's email address -- you control the domain...
I find ~$1000 a year for just email accounts for three humans to be egregious (the non-humans are service accounts for things like NAS, printer, or TeamCity/Jenkins).
Wow. Why is it so much?
I saw the $6/month per user plan, which would be $216 for three humans.
Is that a massively discounted (80%) introductory price?
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#804I have four active email users in my free "legacy edition" vanity domain workspace. I am not willing to pay USD4x6x12 per year to have this continue to work. Looking around for the most affordable alternative for four active email accounts brings me to... Microsoft! Microsoft 365 Family Edition. Like a lot of salary drones I use Microsoft products at work, so I get a discount. It is sad to be paying for full Microsof…
You might want to consider iCloud+ as well. It starts at $1 / month.
You get 50 GB of storage, custom email domain, etc...
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#805After finding out about this yesterday I started experimenting with using Amazon SES to do custom domain email. Sending can be accomplished using SES-generated SMTP credentials, but receiving is not straightforward.
Here is my script to receive SES emails from S3 to a local maildir folder that can be opened with mutt: https://gist.github.com/boronine/661fd24ba6671f687ff714969d9...
Not very convenient but quite private and virtually free.
EDIT: I am using rclone, but you can also use awscli or boto3
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#806So if I use gmail for personal email, I now have to switch to a paid plan?
No. This isn’t about Gmail. It’s about G Suite (formerly Google Apps), which was a business offering from the start. It certainly also contains a mail component based on the same technology, but it’s not Gmail. If your address is somebody@gmail.com , you are not affected.
> which was a business offering from the start
It was not exclusively a business offer from 2010 when it was a free individual tier:
http://web.archive.org/web/20101224193042/http://www.google....
to 2012 when the free edition was marketed as entirely different product ot the business one: http://web.archive.org/web/20120401000138/https://www.google...
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#807I find the outrage here quite amazing. This tier has been deprecated for about 10 years already. Furthermore, the costs to upgrade are not egregious, most everyone here would not have a big problem with it. Also, it's not like one is losing one's email address -- you control the domain...
Well for almost any service, people would rather prefer it to be free than paid, so it's almost an instinctive emotional reaction. Google being huge makes it a particularly easy target.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#808I find the outrage here quite amazing. This tier has been deprecated for about 10 years already. Furthermore, the costs to upgrade are not egregious, most everyone here would not have a big problem with it. Also, it's not like one is losing one's email address -- you control the domain...
The cost are high considering pricing is per user which can add up from something that was free - this is in addition to issues about if you made purchases under accounts for these domains which force an upgrade to keep apps
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#809From what I've seen, the biggest issue here is that you cannot transfer purchased Google Play Store purchases. Even without the G Suite thing, this is a problem. For example, I have a fairly unprofessional primary Google account that I created when I was young and dumb(er). I would like to transfer the hundreds of dollars in purchases I've made under that account to another, more appropriately named, account but it d…
My understanding now is that even if you let the forced Google Workspace account lapse, the underlying accounts will continue to function as Google Accounts. You will not have access to Email, Documents, Photos, Calendar, etc. but you will still be able to login to Google and use Play Store purchases.
Re: Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users to start paying
#810Google is really on a killing spree lately. Can any insiders give us insight into whether the people at the top of Google are aware that they have a strong reputation in the community for killing things off?
I wouldn't really rank this one under "lately" since it's been a legacy version for a decade. The writing was on the wall for this a long time ago.
I apologize for believing them when they said it would be free forever. My bad.