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I've been considering doing a similar thing but I'm in a different situation with Gmail. I hopped on to their business domains when they were initially released
by TrueDuality 7y ago
I've been considering doing a similar thing but I'm in a different situation with Gmail. I hopped on to their business domains when they were initially released (and free) and I'm still grandfathered into their free plan.
I use the account as my primary Google account which includes purchased Android apps, and I make pretty heavy use of that Google Drive with several external organizations.
I'd like to move just my email away to my own hosting, but I'm worried Google might do something sneaky when they realize my MX domains no longer point at them.
I haven't herd of anyone attempting to migrate just their email from a Google on a custom domain while trying to maintain the rest of their account and that fear is the only thing keeping me on Google.
- judge2020 7y agoIn my experience (G Suite Basic) it doesn't do any MX record checks, I still have a domain "active" that had its MX records removed (expired domain) almost 2 years ago.
- TrueDuality 7y agoNiiiccceee. That does make me a bit more confident about it.
- sdan 7y agoYou can actually get a google account with any email (hosted on your own platform, etc.)
- heywire 7y agoI made this same move a couple years ago and still have no problem logging into my account.
- parkersweb 7y agoI’m in the same boat - set up the free service with my own domain for the family a long time ago. Quite frankly I’d love to ditch it entirely because Google frequently makes crazy stuff inaccessible as a result - I can’t use Android screen time limits for the kids, I can’t sign up for Google music family plan. Problem is - I have loads of purchases on the accounts and there’s no way at all to convert them to standard Google accounts and no way at all to transfer the purchases. It’s maddening...