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

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Post by daydream »

Alupis wrote: post #57
filmgirlcw wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It looks like Microsoft 365 Family will get you 6 users, 1 TB storage each user, a custom domain, plus a bunch of Office apps for $99 a year. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-36...

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

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Post by ydant »

dageshi wrote: post #20

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

I'm really happy they waited until I finished the transition and deleted my account. Otherwise laziness might have kept me from moving and it really was the right choice.

(I went to Fastmail and have been mostly happy so far)

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

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Post by ydant »

hamburglar wrote: post #73
dageshi wrote: post #20

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

What did you transition to? I recently made an exploratory protonmail account to move my personal domain to but found that their handling of arbitrary mailboxes like the +suffixes is not useful since you have to register each one, are limited in number, and can’t send from them.

Fastmail is a really good choice. I've been happy with it. I use a wildcard for my personal domains, so I haven't tested how +suffixes work.

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

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Post by schleyreuth »

asd123124 wrote: post #2

meh. 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 :)

Post on Reddit states otherwise [1]

>I do in fact though still have my google voice on my personal no-cost accounts still working. Logging into each account and going directly to http://voice.google.com

>

>*this seems to work with already established voice accounts, and new ones cant be made for account on suite legacy anymore.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/gsuitelegacymigration/comments/ur3h...

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

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Post by filmgirlcw »

denkmoon wrote: post #72
filmgirlcw wrote: post #23

This 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…

You can't rely on Google. This is your shot across the bow, use the extra time to prepare for the inevitable.

I mean, I’m not relying on them. But this is at least a few more months of me not having to consolidate to single inboxes, to a different platform, or to have to pay $24 a month for low-volume personal email accounts that I dared to want a custom domain name for.

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

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Post by artdigital »

asd123124 wrote: post #2

meh. 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 :)

I finished the personal use thingie and still have access to my GV number

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

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Post by filmgirlcw »

daydream wrote: post #81
Alupis wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It looks like Microsoft 365 Family will get you 6 users, 1 TB storage each user, a custom domain, plus a bunch of Office apps for $99 a year. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-36...

Yeah, there’s been mixed success on the custom domain part of that I think, otherwise I would have moved long ago because I get Office for $20 a year (former Microsoft employee), but I’ll definitely look into that.

I’m happy to pay. I’m not willing to pay $25 - $30 a month for basic email just because I want separate inboxes and a custom domain.

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

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Post by kej »

Alupis wrote: post #45
filmgirlcw wrote: post #23

This 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…

This is great news for those folks that already were on the GSuite Legacy plan... but it's of zero help for folks looking to set something like this up now for personal reasons. I own my last name as a domain, and always thought it would be fun to use it for my primary email as firstname@lastname.com. Well... $6 a month for an individual "vanity" email address is already hard enough to justify once you realize Worksp…

You might be interested in Migadu or MXRoute. They both offer email hosting but billing is based on total storage and sent messages instead of per user, which makes it feasible for things like family vanity addresses.

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

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Post by sesquipedalian2 »

I closed my GSuite account and migrated to Fastmail when the free tier shutdown was first announced. I’m glad I did. Fastmail does several things better than GSuite/GMail. It has a very nice UI. I was expecting a UI downgrade, but was pleasantly surprised.

Also, migrating (including setting up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC) was fast and easy.

The $50/year price difference is well worth it. I’m sharing this because I wouldn’t have switched on my own. But I should have migrated even before Google’s changes were announced. The competition has surpassed Google’s offering.

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

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Post by rootsudo »

The message is clear - you are the product and Google is finding you too expensive. Pay up or move out.

We are all aware of how Google treats products they sunset. We are aware how they want to raise their subscription rates and services.

I would say besides Fastmail and other email providers, take a look at Microsoft w/ O365. Yes it's pricy, but it offers a full office suite and can be as low as $60/yr for a business premium plan.

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