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Does anyone have any recommendations on _easy and inexpensive_ ways to migrate an entire family off this (6–7 users)? The value we get is _not_ worth ~$500 US

Does anyone have any recommendations on _easy and inexpensive_ ways to migrate an entire family off this (6–7 users)? The value we get is _not_ worth ~$500 US per year. I don’t need a full business suite. I mostly need the email and calendar. I’d need to poll other people whether they use Google Drive or not.

acegopher 5y ago
Same here. Was an early GMail for Domains user with my entire extended family (10 users). Have had problems with many features not working because "Workspace" (for example, adding a user to Google Home devices). Only did GMail for Domains for the custom address, would just be on GMail otherwise. Hate that there has never been a migration path, and will lose 13+ years of app purchases, pictures, email, youtube history, etc. without a migration tool.
bourbonjuggler 5y ago
I started using Zoho mail about a year ago in a very slow effort to migrate away from google services. I'm paying $75/yr for their 10GB plan, but they offer other options as well. https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html?src=hd https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html?src=hd
ADent 5y ago
I am using MXRoute.com. They have a lifetime account with unlimited addresses and some limits. Looks like the price has gone up since I signed up, but so did the storage included.
- pronoiac 5y ago
  I've wanted to explore them for a while, but haven't gotten around to it. Does it deliver to gmail and others ok, or does it go to spam?
halostatue 5y ago
It’s even worse than I thought. The Google suite is almost CA$700 per year for 6 people. I can pay about CA$100 less than that to Microsoft and get copies of Word &c for everyone. I can pay less than half the Google cost and get a similar suite from Zoho for everyone.
below43 5y ago
Best free way I know would be to move everyone to their own Gmail account, forward your mail via something like Cloudflare's new free email routing. To migrate your emails across you could use the POP email feature in Gmail (set up an app user on your Gsuite first for the POP authentication and make sure you don't tick "keep emails on server" as this seems to prevent it from working).

acegopher 5y ago

Same here. Was an early GMail for Domains user with my entire extended family (10 users). Have had problems with many features not working because "Workspace" (for example, adding a user to Google Home devices). Only did GMail for Domains for the custom address, would just be on GMail otherwise. Hate that there has never been a migration path, and will lose 13+ years of app purchases, pictures, email, youtube history, etc. without a migration tool.

bourbonjuggler 5y ago

I started using Zoho mail about a year ago in a very slow effort to migrate away from google services. I'm paying $75/yr for their 10GB plan, but they offer other options as well. https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html?src=hd https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html?src=hd

ADent 5y ago

I am using MXRoute.com. They have a lifetime account with unlimited addresses and some limits. Looks like the price has gone up since I signed up, but so did the storage included.

pronoiac 5y ago
I've wanted to explore them for a while, but haven't gotten around to it. Does it deliver to gmail and others ok, or does it go to spam?

halostatue 5y ago

It’s even worse than I thought. The Google suite is almost CA$700 per year for 6 people. I can pay about CA$100 less than that to Microsoft and get copies of Word &c for everyone. I can pay less than half the Google cost and get a similar suite from Zoho for everyone.

below43 5y ago

Best free way I know would be to move everyone to their own Gmail account, forward your mail via something like Cloudflare's new free email routing. To migrate your emails across you could use the POP email feature in Gmail (set up an app user on your Gsuite first for the POP authentication and make sure you don't tick "keep emails on server" as this seems to prevent it from working).