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It seems like G Suite meets all the requirements listed on the blog post, but is not discussed. G Suite or Office 365 also work well as personal email providers

It seems like G Suite meets all the requirements listed on the blog post, but is not discussed. G Suite or Office 365 also work well as personal email providers - they fulfill all the requirements mentioned such as a custom domain, text search, and IMAP access.

ocdtrekkie 7y ago
The author talks about the risks of single point of failure being Google/a Google account, and their lengthy and regularly amended Terms of Service. This would arguably be true of Office 365 as well.
- qwertox 7y ago
  Keep in mind that in G-Suite you can also enable email routing which will enable you to create full backups of emails https://support.google.com/a/answer/6297084?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/6297084?hl=en > These options include rejecting, quarantining, or delivering email with modifications. For example, you can route mail to Gmail and an external server or set policies that vary by organizational unit. That way Gmail becomes a single point of failure like any other service; you will only lose the mail which didn't arrive during the outage, which will then usually be resent at a later time. But you wouldn't care that much if they lock you out, since you then can change the MX records to point to the external server.
rolisz 7y ago
GSuite has some quirks when it comes to personal usages. For example, you can't use it for Family Groups, which allows me to share a YouTube Premium account with my wife.
- jvolkman 7y ago
  Pretty sure a PurelyMail account will also not work for these things.
  - ValentineC 7y ago
    I think a Google Account linked to a non-GSuite account might work for Family Groups.
  - rolisz 7y ago
    Sure, but I will keep my GMail account - for YouTube Premium. But at least if it gets banned for whatever reason, I lose only my Youtube history and nothing more.
beagle3 7y ago
G-Suite charges by mailbox address. It is possible to have a catchall, but when you send other emails from it you sometimes get the dreaded "on behalf of ..." tag.
crispinb 7y ago
G suite is pretty expensive for email, presumably because you can only buy it bundled up with all the other stuff.
Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago
Indeed, it does. Until suddenly it doesn't. The posted article explains with examples how it happens to some people.

ocdtrekkie 7y ago

The author talks about the risks of single point of failure being Google/a Google account, and their lengthy and regularly amended Terms of Service. This would arguably be true of Office 365 as well.

qwertox 7y ago
Keep in mind that in G-Suite you can also enable email routing which will enable you to create full backups of emails https://support.google.com/a/answer/6297084?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/6297084?hl=en > These options include rejecting, quarantining, or delivering email with modifications. For example, you can route mail to Gmail and an external server or set policies that vary by organizational unit. That way Gmail becomes a single point of failure like any other service; you will only lose the mail which didn't arrive during the outage, which will then usually be resent at a later time. But you wouldn't care that much if they lock you out, since you then can change the MX records to point to the external server.

rolisz 7y ago

GSuite has some quirks when it comes to personal usages. For example, you can't use it for Family Groups, which allows me to share a YouTube Premium account with my wife.

jvolkman 7y ago
Pretty sure a PurelyMail account will also not work for these things.
- ValentineC 7y ago
  I think a Google Account linked to a non-GSuite account might work for Family Groups.
- rolisz 7y ago
  Sure, but I will keep my GMail account - for YouTube Premium. But at least if it gets banned for whatever reason, I lose only my Youtube history and nothing more.

beagle3 7y ago

G-Suite charges by mailbox address. It is possible to have a catchall, but when you send other emails from it you sometimes get the dreaded "on behalf of ..." tag.

crispinb 7y ago

G suite is pretty expensive for email, presumably because you can only buy it bundled up with all the other stuff.

Andrew_nenakhov 7y ago

Indeed, it does. Until suddenly it doesn't. The posted article explains with examples how it happens to some people.