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A lot of us have also been caught out by Google announcing they are forcing free G-Suite Legacy users to upgrade.

Here is where I am heading (having given the matter much thought and some testing, trial and error)

Free Gmail/Cal account as I enjoy the software

My own custom domains with any registrar

Paid Fastmail account storing all my emails to all my domains/aliases at Fastmail

All Fastmail messages forwarded to Gmail

Mail from Gmail sent through Fastmail's smtp servers

This gives me the mail/cal app I like and the freedom to move. I don't have a problem with paid. Google are forcing Workspace on me when all I want is email with custom domains.

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Damn, I've been through this too and I have even forgotten about it. 5 users, no cost, gone. I've even used zoho for a while after that, but that's gone too. My current solution is to use custom domain with icloud and forwarding emails around.

Also caught in the Legacy drama. :-( still haven't decided what to do about it. blurg.

I moved to Zoho for business and have 2 accounts there for £10 each/year.

The configuration of the service is much easier than Google makes it. Filtering took some getting used to, but I have it working much better than I ever could on Google, so happy bunny there. And the Android client is OK too.

The only meh part (for me) is the web interface for email/calendar isn't as streamlined as Google, but being out of that eco-system more than makes up for it.

Me too. Currently leaning towards iCloud. It’s very inexpensive for email with a custom domain and I trust Apple a bit more than other tech companies.

Migrating to Zoho is super easy. Did it for 2 domains.

I looked at office365 as well and discovered the bizarre fact you can only redirect custom domains from one registrar. GoDaddy I think it was?

Zoho just wanted some TXT and MX DNS entries. Any registrar should provide you that.

What do you enjoy about Gmail/cal? I don't see the point of that level of indirection in your setup. Fastmail seems indistinguishable from Gmail UI except I don't have crap on the left nav. And gcal is unreliable garbage, in my experience.

These days I pick a provider for each service that lives and dies by the quality of that service. Fastmail has 'mail' right on the tin.

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