Subj : Google Discontinues G Suite Legacy Free Edition Accounts
To   : Warpslide
From : Oli
Date : Fri Jan 28 2022 21:37:05

Warpslide wrote (2022-01-28):

 W> Well, it was good while it lasted!

 W> I received an email from Google yesterday that my grandfathered free G
 W> Suite account will be discontinued as of July 1, 2022.

That is in the news (shitstorm included) for couple of days (before any customer received an email).

It seemed to be unaware (or didn't give a shit) that many users used it for private stuff and have play store purchases linked to it. But what do you expect of Google today? ;)

 W> I've been on this service for what seems like forever. It was originally
 W> released as a free service in August of 2006, marketed as "Google Apps
 W> for Your Domain".  Google then discontinued their free offering in 2012,
 W> but for those of us who had a free account we were grandfathered in.

Me too. I even have an upper limit of 1000 users.

 W> Who do you use for email for your own domain?

I think I'll switch to cloudflare email forwarding, my own mail server and an SMTP send service. And hopefully be able to transfer my main account to a free gmail/google account:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-relents-legacy-g-suite-users-will-be-able-to-migrate-to-free-accounts/

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