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| Thread ID: 150580 | 2022-04-08 00:40:00 | Google Workspace | Beemer (6956) | Press F1 |
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| 1485431 | 2022-04-08 00:40:00 | I've been getting emails about upgrading my Google Workspace account and the latest one says: Discontinued in 2012, the G Suite legacy free edition has provided access to premium Google Apps features for over 10 years. On June 1, 2022, Google will begin upgrading G Suite legacy free edition accounts to Google Workspace. Towards the end of the email it says: If you do not take action by June 1, 2022, Google will begin transitioning your organization to a new Google Workspace subscription. To complete the transition and avoid account suspension, enter your billing details in your Admin Console before August 1, 2022. I use Gmail on my desktop, laptop (occasionally) and my phone, and use maps, Google, etc. I really don't want yet another paid subscription (in addition to Dropbox, Otter, Microsoft 365, etc) because I have two Gmail accounts that I access and that's about it. I don't use Google Teams or anything like that. Do I have to start paying for access, or is there a way around it? I have my own domain name for my personal emails that I access through Gmail, but I am open to changing how I access it if it means I don't have to pay anything. I'm using a very old Mac computer (2011) and an iPhone X. |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1485432 | 2022-04-08 02:39:00 | Do you have g suites? It does sound like you do, for the fact you're getting the emails, and you have your own domain name. This was mentioned in Jan by google. www.geekzone.co.nz A number of us took the opportunity to: Switch to gmail and lose the domain name or Switch to gmail and use something like cloudflare email to put in the domain routing. or Move to someone else (I went to fastmail and start paying for email, rather than being the product) and/or Exit google entirely. |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1485433 | 2022-04-08 04:55:00 | I'm still a little confused, especially when you say 'a number of us took the opportunity to: Switch to gmail and lose the domain name' - does this mean if my domain name is something like xyz.co.nz, I lose that and have something else? At present, anything addressed to @xyz.co.nz comes to me via Gmail, with the xyz being my business name. If I switch to the new paid system, will my domain name no longer work? I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to stuff like this. I have my own domain name which was set up in 2006 when I got my own website, and many years ago I set up so it downloads to Gmail. I switched website providers a few years ago and my new website is through Google (it was set up for me by a friend), but I had the domain name years before then. I'm assuming because my website is a Google one I will have to stick with Google - or get a new website, which I can't really afford. I do use the calendar and maps apps, so it looks like to keep using them, I'll be forced to pay the $108 a year, which annoys me a bit. I download emails to Outlook on my desktop, but also have the Gmail site on the desktop and the app on my phone. If I exit Google, what are my options (and associated costs) for email access? I'm reading through the comments on that thread you gave the link to, but there are a lot of them and I think they are just making me even more confused as they're talking about providers I've never heard of! ETA: One comment worries me, the bit about the email addresses being classed as users. I mainly use the email address which is my name@xyz, but if someone spells my name wrong, or sends an email to info@xyz, will I be charged for additional users? It's just ME, but the account is set up so it's a catch-all (you could send an email to moron@xyz and it would get through!), so do you get charged per user for each address that gets an email sent to it? 'It's the "per user" bit that stinks. Email accounts themselves are essentially free in terms of resources, at most it's uptime of storage/sending and spam that costs. And part of the value of your own domain is being able to make a number of email addresses for different buckets. So I'm one user, but because I have a dedicated "domain admin" bucket now that's another $6/month. It's an incredibly shitty way of charging. Yeah yeah, they want you to use aliases and labeling and other such crap for that, but there shouldn't be a need. If it was really only $6 per HUMAN per month, fine yes that's not completely terrible if you use enough stuff. But $6 per email address bucket? Lol no.' |
Beemer (6956) | ||
| 1485434 | 2022-04-08 09:48:00 | You could argue you’ve had a pretty good run for free . There are methods that are cheaper for getting domain emails to gmail . Email routing it’s called . Cloudflare . com can do it . And I think it’s free . It does sound like you’re on g suites, unfortunately, unless you stump up and pay Google or some other pay provider, or some other scheme the options are fairly limited . Most of the pay provider charge per address . But you can get catch alls and aliases . But it’s only the mailbox you pay for . Eg I pay fastmail now, $6usd per month per mail box for 30gb storage . But I use catchalls and have domains pointed at that’s one single mailbox . For the same $6 . |
psycik (12851) | ||
| 1485435 | 2022-04-08 09:52:00 | PITA. Move domain or use an @gmail...sigh. |
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