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Many such accounts are used by individuals for personal purposes. It's the only non-hokey way to use Gmail with a vanity domain. By now, many of us have app an
by sowbug 11y ago
Many such accounts are used by individuals for personal purposes. It's the only non-hokey way to use Gmail with a vanity domain.
By now, many of us have app and content purchases tied to those accounts, and migrating from Gmail/Drive/Photos isn't practical, so we're stuck getting new Google features later or never.
- mjs7231 11y agoIs forwarding mail to your personal gmail account from the domain registrar, postfix, or whatever else you use considered hokey? It works really nice in all instances I've done that. It even replys from the same address mail was sent to once you verify you own the email address.
- buro9 11y agoThat only solves one thing, email. How about the email address that appears when you want calendar invites, or hangouts, or drive sharing. The only good way to use a custom domain with Google is to pay. Clearly a lot of us are happy doing so. I know I pay around £200 per year to Google for my one account, the storage and media subscriptions (music, magazines, etc)... But for this I get incomplete features (Now) and locked out of some services (Play Family).
- caf 11y agoForwarding to gmail often ends up with the forwarding mail server getting blocked from gmail, because you end up forwarding spam you've been sent as well.
- Erwin 11y agoIn my Google Apps control panel I can declare a "gateway" where mail will come from which avoids this: https://support.google.com/a/answer/60730?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/60730?hl=en