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

Post by p2t2p » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 2:22 AM UTC

apohn wrote: post #379

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…

Something I just discovered is that Office 365 Family only lets you use custom domains if they are hosted by GoDaddy. If you want to use another domain registrar you have to get Microsoft 365 Business, which has a similar price as Google Workspace :( There's no way I'm moving my domain to GoDaddy.

Post by emrah » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 2:52 AM UTC

signal11 wrote: post #499

l33tman wrote: post #485

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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? I'm all about Google being evil and all that, but spending valuable aggression on this seems a bit excessive.. The Google Takeout system gives you all of your email in a format you might be able to import into another system?

> 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…

Post by feupan » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 4:06 AM UTC

below43 wrote: post #851

drewda wrote: post #813

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This is a very interesting option for handling incoming email from a personal domain or two (especially since it's from an established company, rather than a random individuals's email forwarding service :) Does Cloudflare have any options for handling outgoing email? If not, I assume you still have to set up your actual email host in a way that can send through all the vanity domains, with appropriate DKIM records,…

If you were to use free Gmail, this allows you to send via other email addresses (so you could forward youremail@yourdomain.com to your Gmail and send emails as coming from that email address). See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Post by below43 » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 7:59 AM UTC

feupan wrote: post #925

below43 wrote: post #851

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If you were to use free Gmail, this allows you to send via other email addresses (so you could forward youremail@yourdomain.com to your Gmail and send emails as coming from that email address). See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en

Can that completely hide that real sender (me@gmail.com) without setting up a SMTP server? Seeing "me@gmail.com on behalf of me@example.com" or ending up in spam would be a deal breaker.

Post by anon_np » Fri, Jan 21, 2022, 8:13 AM UTC