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Unsure if this is true or not as I haven’t received anything as of yet.

Finally, actual motivation to get off google. Probably will go to Outlook premium for my own domain’s email.

> Unsure if this is true or not as I haven’t received anything as of yet.

The article links to an official Google support FAQ regarding Legacy G Suite accounts shutting down on July 1, 2022. [1] 1. https://support.google.com/a/answer/60217#faq

Indeed, I have been putting off migrating, but this surely is a great motivator to finally get off gsuite.

Agreed.. do you know where you will end up migrating to? I looked into FastMail a long time ago, at that time it was the best replacement for just the Gmail component with custom domain, not sure if it still is.

I looked into FastMail as well about 1-2 years ago. I’d like IMAP PUSH support for iOS, to replace the polling needed for gmail. Good support for iOS search is also needed, I haven’t investigated how FastMail works in that regard yet.

I moved from gsuite to fastmail about 6 months ago

I'm pretty wary of any "automatic import from $previous_service" tools (having been bitten in the past)

so I ran the fastmail importer against my user's accounts, then later reconciled this against the gmail/fastmail APIs with my own code

... it was completely byte-for-byte perfect (other than "muted" conversations, which weren't imported at all, that I dealt with separately)

I was very impressed indeed

Thx for this. It's reassuring to hear.

Same here. What side-effects such migration would have? Would I lose all the files in my Google Drive? Sure my email@customdomain.com email will still exist as a Google, YouTube account, right? It just won't use Gmail as my email provider?

Yes, it's true. I think Google rebranded it as part of Google Workspace. I received their email detailing their policy change back in Dec 2020; been an extremely frugal user of it back when it was simply called Google Apps Engine for basic domain email hosting.

Yeah thinking the same. Microsoft 365 most likely the best switch for me. With 2 users and my custom domain, for cheaper might as well get 1TB cloud storage and Office as well.

iCloud+ may also be an option.

I just hate that you have to move your domain to GoDaddy.

I don't understand why they do this. Microsoft used to have a service called Windows Live Domains that used your normal TXT-record validation and killed it off in 2014; the shift to requiring GoDaddy be your registrar for outlook.com premium just baffles me.

> Probably will go to Outlook premium for my own domain’s email.

Microsoft discontinued that and increased the price under O365.

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/en-us/office/premium-features-...

Which causes a price increase.

ah boourns

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