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Are you a paying customer?
No, this is a free account from way back when (2010 maybe?)
I've received multiple warnings for some of my unused domains.
> "If you're over your storage limit for two years, Google may delete your content across Gmail, Drive and Photos," the company said. That's different from just deleting all your data because you're inactive. Which is it? Edit: it seems both. Here's the blog post (maybe this is a better link): https://blog.google/products/photos/storage-policy-update/
Wow, 4.3 petabytes a day . Operating at Google's scale these days is just nuts.
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FastMail / ProtonMail are good. But even they won't just store your mail forever for free.
I'd pay. But mostly, I'd pay to know the customer service would respond to me. Customer service at Google is like trying to cancel Verizon service - endless transfers.
What's another good email provider? I am starting to feel really nervous about storing my life in Google. It's not that I wouldn't pay for these things...it's just that I worry one day I'll lose access and fall into the pit of "trying to get Google to help a single human regain access" that sounds horrible.
FastMail / ProtonMail are good. But even they won't just store your mail forever for free.
Never using Fastmail after that. :)
[1] https://fastmail.blog/2012/10/18/changes-to-fastmail-service...
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It seems like only if you are over storage. Regardless, all you'd have to do is log into it once a year to avoid this. You should probably be backing it up externally at least this often if you care about the content...
It looks like it does this if you are over storage or if your account is inactive.
The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that. Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit is 365 days of inactivity.
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Wow, 4.3 petabytes a day . Operating at Google's scale these days is just nuts.
One of the advantages of being on an exponential growth curve is that this figure has been way lower in the past. Just go back 5 years and it's only a fraction of that. 5 more years and it's even lower. The gmail/drive/etc. data that come from Google's first decade of existence probably fit into those 4.3 petabytes.
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oh damn. I've created an account for my newborn son on my (free) google workspace domain and send him emails every few weeks with updates and photos. He'll receive the account when he's like 12. Will these be deleted too?
I recently had an idea for a similar service that uses a storage account of your choosing as a backend. The plan was to market it as a “vault” for your emails and attachments. Basically, you get an email address, and any email you send to it is streamed to a storage account of your choosing, with optional minimal processing (e.g., convert your emails into Markdown prior to storage). I spent a while setting up the mai…
- dump your gmail to gdrive with "google takeout"
- dump your gdrive with rclone (to some cloud service or whatever)
https://forum.rclone.org/t/is-it-possible-to-directly-backup...
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A policy change that sabotages an idea that Google itself gave many people just a few years ago. Google's "Dear Sophie" ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhPklt9nYas
I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising
At the time it wasn't fraudulent, though.
The same happened to my old "...@hotmail.com" email, Microsoft deleted old childhood emails, still bitter about that. Per https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/oemail... , the limit is 365 days of inactivity.
https://fastmail.blog/2012/10/18/changes-to-fastmail-service...
I just found that I can re-register my deactivated username at Fastmail if I want to. That's not cool.
