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I pay yearly for G Suite to avoid this issue by using my own domain instead of @gmail.com. If I ever had an issue I can change my email provider (also backup em

I pay yearly for G Suite to avoid this issue by using my own domain instead of @gmail.com. If I ever had an issue I can change my email provider (also backup email regularly using Takeout or in the past using offlineimap). Unfortunate that it’s necessary but I think it’s a good idea for everyone who can.

generalpass 7y ago
Do you use Google Drive or Docs to store anything critical?
mcv 7y ago
How does G Suite help here? If you've just got your own domain, you can do the same thing without G Suite.
- metalliqaz 7y ago
  I presume he wants to use the gmail tools.
  - mcv 7y ago
    I realize I've never checked if my Android GMail app supports using my other address as the From address. I guess it doesn't. I don't use GMail's web interface but prefer an actual mail reader which has no problem with using a different address. Maybe I should use an IMAP mailreader for GMail on Android as well.
    - jpindar 7y ago
      You have to use the Gmail web page to set it up, but it is possible to use the Android Gmail app to send from non-gmail accounts. The 'From' field becomes a drop-down allowing you to choose from the accounts you have set up.
- jrodthree24 7y ago
  I'm assuming to use all the google apps like Gmail. But in the case that Google suspends you, you can redirect your mail elsewhere and not be locked out from any other accounts.
- oliwarner 7y ago
  The person in the bug post lost access to their email address. Just think of how many services you have tied into your email address. How many of those accounts would allow you to recover without email access? By having G Suite and your own domain, you get to port that domain to another email provider if something bad did happen with Google.
  - mcv 7y ago
    But how is that different from simply having your own domain and sending email for that domain to your GMail box, and redirecting it somewhere else once you need to get rid of GMail?
    - buckminster 7y ago
      But how do you send email from your domain? Last time I looked (a few years ago admittedly) you could set a reply to address but your email still clearly came from your gmail address.
      - mcv 7y ago
        I'm not using GMail's web interface. My mailreader (Apple Mail) allows me to select from which address I'm mailing. Admittedly this doesn't work from my mobile GMail app, but I don't send a lot of work-related email (which my alternate address is for) from my smartphone.
        tomatocracy 7y ago
        Admittedly I haven’t used gmail for years now but from what I remember when I used to do this this is half right. If you change the From address in gmail, it will add a ‘Sender:’ header with your gmail account on it. Some clients will show that combination as the email being from ‘X on behalf of Y’ where Y is the from address and X the sender address and some will send replies, especially bounces, to your sender address. It may also set off some spam traps. I think it might also have required some form of verification that you have access to the address in question. If you want to send from a different address without the sender header being set to your gmail account, I think you have to have Gsuite.
- jborichevskiy 7y ago
  Another assumption might be paying for Google services warrants better support in case of an issue.
  - ok_coo 7y ago
    I used the G Suite basic account in the past ($6/month), I was able to get a support ticket responded to within 24 hours. The issue got resolved by someone before their support team responded to me via email, but I was still happy an actual person got back to me. It's been said many times before, but it's best to pay for stuff, even (and especially) when you can get a good product/service for only ~$5/month.
- sroussey 7y ago
  You normally have an admin super user account as well as your normal one. The admin account can do anything to the normal account. Also has access to support, which is pretty quick.
drharby 7y ago
Can you expand for a scared dummy like me? Is your email infrastructure currently a gmail backend that you can hot-swap with any other provider?
- amdavidson 7y ago
  If you have your own domain name for your email, you can point it at any host's servers. Google in the case of Gsuite or Fastmail or Pobox or anyone else. If you have regular backups, all you have to do is change a DNS record to switch to a different provider and you shouldn't lose any email in the process. This is what I and many others do. I have had the same email address for ~20 years and have had it hosted on at least a half dozen providers over that time with no loss in data.
- jsgo 7y ago
  not the person you're responding to, but I have G Suite and I have my domain pointed at Google for mail. If for some reason Google came down hard on me, I could login to Namecheap and setup email to be handled by another provider (Microsoft, ProtonMail, whoever). So if someone emailed me at my email address, the only gap I risk is between the last time I read my emails and when I setup the new provider. Added bonus, "forgot password" on various sites will continue to work at this stage and I don't have to mass email people that my email address is now name@domain.tld.

generalpass 7y ago

Do you use Google Drive or Docs to store anything critical?

mcv 7y ago

How does G Suite help here? If you've just got your own domain, you can do the same thing without G Suite.

metalliqaz 7y ago
I presume he wants to use the gmail tools.
- mcv 7y ago
  I realize I've never checked if my Android GMail app supports using my other address as the From address. I guess it doesn't. I don't use GMail's web interface but prefer an actual mail reader which has no problem with using a different address. Maybe I should use an IMAP mailreader for GMail on Android as well.
  - jpindar 7y ago
    You have to use the Gmail web page to set it up, but it is possible to use the Android Gmail app to send from non-gmail accounts. The 'From' field becomes a drop-down allowing you to choose from the accounts you have set up.
jrodthree24 7y ago
I'm assuming to use all the google apps like Gmail. But in the case that Google suspends you, you can redirect your mail elsewhere and not be locked out from any other accounts.
oliwarner 7y ago
The person in the bug post lost access to their email address. Just think of how many services you have tied into your email address. How many of those accounts would allow you to recover without email access? By having G Suite and your own domain, you get to port that domain to another email provider if something bad did happen with Google.
- mcv 7y ago
  But how is that different from simply having your own domain and sending email for that domain to your GMail box, and redirecting it somewhere else once you need to get rid of GMail?
  - buckminster 7y ago
    But how do you send email from your domain? Last time I looked (a few years ago admittedly) you could set a reply to address but your email still clearly came from your gmail address.
    - mcv 7y ago
      I'm not using GMail's web interface. My mailreader (Apple Mail) allows me to select from which address I'm mailing. Admittedly this doesn't work from my mobile GMail app, but I don't send a lot of work-related email (which my alternate address is for) from my smartphone.
      - tomatocracy 7y ago
        Admittedly I haven’t used gmail for years now but from what I remember when I used to do this this is half right. If you change the From address in gmail, it will add a ‘Sender:’ header with your gmail account on it. Some clients will show that combination as the email being from ‘X on behalf of Y’ where Y is the from address and X the sender address and some will send replies, especially bounces, to your sender address. It may also set off some spam traps. I think it might also have required some form of verification that you have access to the address in question. If you want to send from a different address without the sender header being set to your gmail account, I think you have to have Gsuite.
jborichevskiy 7y ago
Another assumption might be paying for Google services warrants better support in case of an issue.
- ok_coo 7y ago
  I used the G Suite basic account in the past ($6/month), I was able to get a support ticket responded to within 24 hours. The issue got resolved by someone before their support team responded to me via email, but I was still happy an actual person got back to me. It's been said many times before, but it's best to pay for stuff, even (and especially) when you can get a good product/service for only ~$5/month.
sroussey 7y ago
You normally have an admin super user account as well as your normal one. The admin account can do anything to the normal account. Also has access to support, which is pretty quick.

drharby 7y ago

Can you expand for a scared dummy like me? Is your email infrastructure currently a gmail backend that you can hot-swap with any other provider?

amdavidson 7y ago
If you have your own domain name for your email, you can point it at any host's servers. Google in the case of Gsuite or Fastmail or Pobox or anyone else. If you have regular backups, all you have to do is change a DNS record to switch to a different provider and you shouldn't lose any email in the process. This is what I and many others do. I have had the same email address for ~20 years and have had it hosted on at least a half dozen providers over that time with no loss in data.
jsgo 7y ago
not the person you're responding to, but I have G Suite and I have my domain pointed at Google for mail. If for some reason Google came down hard on me, I could login to Namecheap and setup email to be handled by another provider (Microsoft, ProtonMail, whoever). So if someone emailed me at my email address, the only gap I risk is between the last time I read my emails and when I setup the new provider. Added bonus, "forgot password" on various sites will continue to work at this stage and I don't have to mass email people that my email address is now name@domain.tld.