> so he lives and dies with the company email While I don't see too many people take advantage of it, you can make a Google account without an associated Gmail

> so he lives and dies with the company email While I don't see too many people take advantage of it, you can make a Google account without an associated Gmail account. You just have to choose "Use my current email address instead" on the signup page[1]. [1] https://accounts.google.com/signup/ https://accounts.google.com/signup/