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GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by Alupis »

ISL wrote: post #50
mikewave wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily get hosting for ~$20/yr from classic web hosts like Hostineer and just set up email forwarding to people's personal Gmail and get the same functionality with a little bit more control and flexibility on your part.

Email aliasing is more annoying/error-prone than directly hosted GSuite. I've done both.

Ya, aliasing is certainly not a replacement - particularly for non-tech savvy family members.

I've also been around long enough to know not to try running my own email server anymore... been there, done that (Zimbra & Exchange). While possible, it will consume more of your time than you want.

It's just beyond me why the likes of Google and Microsoft have not come up with a Family plan for bringing your own domain name... one that doesn't cost $5-6+ per month per user.

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by Alupis »

cglong wrote: post #52

Anyone know if this can be used by someone who never used G Suite Legacy but uses Workspace for personal purposes only?

At the moment, it seems no. I tried to follow the "down-grade" path in my Workspace, and it just says "an error occurred".

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by mikewave »

ISL wrote: post #50
mikewave wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can easily get hosting for ~$20/yr from classic web hosts like Hostineer and just set up email forwarding to people's personal Gmail and get the same functionality with a little bit more control and flexibility on your part.

Email aliasing is more annoying/error-prone than directly hosted GSuite. I've done both.

Sure, but unless your family is growing rapidly, it shouldn't be something you have to do very often.

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by jw1224 »

dageshi wrote: post #20

Whelp screw me for proactively dealing with the situation I guess?

Ugh, same.

Edit: I just followed the link from the other comment about contacting support…

> To get phone, chat, or email support for your legacy free account at [mydomain.com], you need to upgrade to Google Workspace

So I can’t contact them until the “upgrade” takes effect, and I get charged for it?!

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by Alupis »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #35
qbasic_forever wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's the thing though... it doesn't need to be free, it can have some cost - just not $6 per user per month. That's difficult to justify for fun/vanity/family email addresses.

$6 monthly with unlimited (or some high number) of family member users would be fine.

Any cost at all will limit spammers.

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by mikewave »

Alupis wrote: post #51
ISL wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Email aliasing is more annoying/error-prone than directly hosted GSuite. I've done both.

Ya, aliasing is certainly not a replacement - particularly for non-tech savvy family members. I've also been around long enough to know not to try running my own email server anymore... been there, done that (Zimbra & Exchange). While possible, it will consume more of your time than you want. It's just beyond me why the likes of Google and Microsoft have not come up with a Family plan for bringing your own domain nam…

I'm not suggesting running your own mail server. Hosts like Hostineer do that for you. Setting up forwarding takes three seconds in a web UI.

Re: GSuite legacy users can now get a free personal account, includes Gmail

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Post by arthurcolle »

sfblah wrote: post #46

I transitioned my family domain name to a small nonprofit that I created to do donations. If you have such an entity, it's an easy way to opt out of this whole problem. I realize this doesn't apply to most people, but I'm just putting it here as an alternative.

created to do donations for what causes, if you don't mind my asking?
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