"Gmail will continue to receive emails from non-Gmail addresses"

This image doesn't need to be photoshopped to be fake. It would take someone familiar with modifying DOM about 30 seconds to do. http://i.imgur.com/I8oBMdN.png

Normally, I would immediately judge this kind of thing as fake. That is, until they decided to silently ignore[1] federated XMPP servers, turning gtalk (err, "hangouts"?) into more of a walled garden. Now, I'm not sure, because if decided to un-federate port 5269/tcp, the idea of doing it to 25/tcp is suddenly plausible.

[1] yes, "ignore" - they didn't even bother sending a NAK, so subscription requests end up looking still-pending or lost from the outside

Interesting. I guess Google is pushing domain owners to buy a Google Apps account instead of just using mail forwarding. I've been forwarding my personal domain to my Gmail account for almost 10 years now and only pay for the cost of the domain renewal. I wonder if you will be able to bypass this by creating a filter to move all e-mails put in the "External" folder back into your inbox.

Yeah right. I'm sure it's photoshopped. Look at the compression artefacts. It looks like stuff was cut out from a screenshot and put together. However, this scenario might happen in the future. Mail providers not taking mail from other providers.

Oh well, You might say it already happened: Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, etc.

I would update the headline with the full "For your convenience" lead-in. I think it's important to the tone.

Is this supposed to be a net neutrality protest thing?