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As an admin of a number of legacy G Suite accounts I have yet to receive any email about this/pointing to this
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> But I have no idea what the migration of a decade of email across 5 inboxes will look like; not to mention Calendar and contacts. Contacts and Email seems to be the easy part: you can download the emails via IMAP to a client like Thunderbird, and the re-upload them on a new account. Years ago I did this transferring from one G Suite account to another for a friend, worked very well. Contacts can be exported in CSV…
Are you sure about the re-uploading part? I've had an issue like that last week, and am currently stuck with my mails locally, not able to 'put them back' to the IMAP server. Not Gmail though.
[1]: https://superuser.com/questions/446135/import-e-mail-via-ima...
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Do you really think they care about that reputation? It's simply binary: Product makes money, product does not make money. Did you think Google was giving away free stuff for "the community"?
Loss leaders are a thing. I've had a free GSuite account on my personal domain which effectively acted as free job training and contributed to choosing them as an email provider for two companies I've worked for and clearly contributed to vastly more revenue than it would cost to host my personal GSuite account for my next 10 lifetimes. Over the last decade I've slowly but surely stopped recommending Google for anyth…
When Google gave me a free HTC Magic handset in San Francisco, I showed it to everyone. I performed tricks with it. I made people want one.
To this day, three members of my immediate family use newer models of my old Pixel phone.
I told a man with a lot of CPU heavy jobs that GCE exists.
I'm talking about "influence" a lot.. but let's be clear, that's not all.
Google knows me--or at least it had the opportunity to. Somewhere between all those referrals and the emails in my mbox files at gmail and GAFYD which pre-date the launch of those services by a decade or my bug reports, or working in one of their datacenters for a while, they should know that I helped them be what they are today.
Maybe they do. Maybe this kind of treatment is what I deserve.
(to reiterate what others have posted, it isn't about the money. It's about the major unplanned migration. Which they still have not notified me about.)
If you have a Google registered domain don’t they throw in Workspace for free? Is that a possible way to continue keeping at least a single base account alive without paying per month? Otherwise I guess I’m going to look at using something to forward emails to my free Google account (Cloudflare now has email forwarding…)
I knew something like this would probably come, but it doesn't make it any better. Complete BS. 16 years ago me and my friends signed up for "GMail for your domain". That's it. We wanted to use GMail, which was by far the best email available at the time, and have email addresses at our own domain instead of @gmail.com. That's it. Since that time several of us have been using our GFYD/GSuite/Workspaces accounts as ou…
Same boat. I set up a Google domain for family many years ago. It's been somewhat convenient when it comes to sharing Google docs with each other and managing their email accounts for them, but that's about it. Everything else has been a continual pain in the ass. So many services are not supported by the custom Google domains or if we're lucky we get access years after they're introduced. It's always been remarkable…
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You can have this exact thing cheaper if you set up a server and forward your mail to Gmail. And you'll also have a server to host a website or whatever else.
Back in 2010 this was reasonable. Now? Anti-spam functions have become quite the specialty, with DNS and email strongly intertwined. And that's all on top of the already significant burdens to run a non-relay hacker-proof server. There's a lot going on to operate reliable basic services on the Internet today.
Hmm, almost like Google have managed to make non-Google email impossible to do (excepting a few other very large outfits like Microsoft). What a happy accident that the de-facto answer is "give all your email to the advertising company".
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Really? I just looked at Microsoft 365 pricing, and it comes with Outlook Premium. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-a-personalize...
> As of February 28, 2021, the specific "Outlook.com Premium" and "Ad-Free Outlook.com" subscriptions no longer include the ability to use a custom domain with Outlook.com. > To continue using a personalized email address and custom domains with Outlook.com, you will need to subscribe to Microsoft 365. Learn more about Premium features in Outlook.com for Microsoft 365 subscribers. From: https://support.microsoft.com/…
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Aruba. Biggest hosting provider in italy has a very competitive mail service. Domain + 5 mailbox x 1gb each at 9 euro/year. At 20 Euro year you can create unlimited mailboxes x 1gb each. https://hosting.aruba.it/en/email.aspx
I don't think you can compare in any way Aruba mail service against Gmail. Even just for the webmail or the mobile app.
What are some (paid) alternatives to using G-Suite for emails? Context: We're a small but relatively old SaaS company. Been happily using G Suite's free tier since day 1 - only for email. This announcement is a tad disappointing, but as other commenters have said, 10 years of a free product is pretty great. We'll likely upgrade to Google's paid tier, but out of curiosity, since we're switching to a paid service, we m…
I setup a trial with plan to use it long term but I got locked out of my own admin account with no way in (I use a password manager, yes) and the support page that was supposed to work kept crashing my browser.
Their Twitter account redirected me to that support page after explaining the situation to them.
The quality of the service itself is horrible for an individual to manage compared to gsuite or any other service I have touched.