I migrated everything to Zoho already. $1 a month is a fair price.
GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
31–40 of 189 posts
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#32This is a relief. I might still move some of my personal domains off of GSuite, but the fact that I don't have to is honestly a real relief. And I wouldn't even mind paying. If you wanted to charge me just for email without any of the other stuff and not offer support, I'd pay $100 a year if you could give me unlimited (or even 25 or whatever the original number of email addresses was) separate inboxes. But when you…
I seriously doubt GSuite legacy was a huge spam vector. You still have to send mail through Google's gmail infrastructure and be beholden to all the spam, abuse, etc. mitigations in place there. GCE is probably a bigger source of spam with people spinning up a VM, cranking out millions of SMTP requests, and dipping out.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#33Hmm, I already opted in to Google Workspace, even though I only use the account for personal use. I wonder if there will be an option to switch?
[deleted]
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#34This is a relief. I might still move some of my personal domains off of GSuite, but the fact that I don't have to is honestly a real relief. And I wouldn't even mind paying. If you wanted to charge me just for email without any of the other stuff and not offer support, I'd pay $100 a year if you could give me unlimited (or even 25 or whatever the original number of email addresses was) separate inboxes. But when you…
I seriously doubt GSuite legacy was a huge spam vector. You still have to send mail through Google's gmail infrastructure and be beholden to all the spam, abuse, etc. mitigations in place there. GCE is probably a bigger source of spam with people spinning up a VM, cranking out millions of SMTP requests, and dipping out.
GCE blocks outbound port 25 (https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls#blockedtraffic)
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#35This is a relief. I might still move some of my personal domains off of GSuite, but the fact that I don't have to is honestly a real relief. And I wouldn't even mind paying. If you wanted to charge me just for email without any of the other stuff and not offer support, I'd pay $100 a year if you could give me unlimited (or even 25 or whatever the original number of email addresses was) separate inboxes. But when you…
I seriously doubt GSuite legacy was a huge spam vector. You still have to send mail through Google's gmail infrastructure and be beholden to all the spam, abuse, etc. mitigations in place there. GCE is probably a bigger source of spam with people spinning up a VM, cranking out millions of SMTP requests, and dipping out.
Well, it wasn't just Google. Microsoft cut out the free custom email domain for OneDrive, Zoho cut theirs way down -- so my feeling is that it had to have been abused in some way, even if it wasn't strictly spam.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#36meh. this is exactly what was always available. The catch is, as soon as you migrate you will lose your gvoice number, since that is not included in the "all free services will be migrated". And then it will be too late to research alternatives as you lost your number and will start paying (and then realize your old number is long gone :)
What would you recommend to safeguard the number?
You can transfer your GV number to a consumer Google (@gmail.com) account.
https://support.google.com/voice/answer/12083094?hl=en&ref_t... See the section titled: “Transfer to another Google Account (ends in @gmail.com)”
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#37This is a relief. I might still move some of my personal domains off of GSuite, but the fact that I don't have to is honestly a real relief. And I wouldn't even mind paying. If you wanted to charge me just for email without any of the other stuff and not offer support, I'd pay $100 a year if you could give me unlimited (or even 25 or whatever the original number of email addresses was) separate inboxes. But when you…
Yeah this has been insanity. Really poor communication and rollout -- I swear I was one of the last to get notifications within email/admin.
I'd gladly pay for the personal service if it wasn't per-user.
Though, I'm sure google got a lot of value out of this. I switched myself and many others onto gsuite early on. It was some of their first introductions to the "google apps" that have now become the structure for their "Workspace".
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#38Anyone know if wildcards still work with this? I mostly make up domain addresses on the fly e.g. hn@example.com
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#39I'm seeing that option in my account admin page now too. I'm going to confirm mine is for personal use and see how it goes.
Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail
#4036 hours too late for me - I deleted my 14+ year old GSuite account yesterday morning. Oh well, Fastmail seems great so far.
That's definitely within a reasonable deletion windowpz but also maybe up against the edge of it - try yelling really loudly (tweet @AskWorkspace, ask contacts/friends, etc, basically move now) and you very well might be able to get it back.
(I see there's an email address at the bottom of the link in your bio FWIW, just in case someone might consider reaching out that way)