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Last week's news gave a lot of people the nudge they needed to finally migrate away from their legacy free GSuite accounts to something more reliable.

devb 5y ago
Can I ask which news? I'm already a happy Fastmail customer, just curious.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  This [1] Neat fact, Google is yet to tell me they are making this change to my account. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-...
  - rootusrootus 5y ago
    Yeah, I haven't gotten the official notification yet either. Maybe going in waves?
    - julianwachholz 5y ago
      I disabled the GMail service in my GSuite account, will they honor the domain's current MX records? Because I know they don't for calendar invites.
    - rootusrootus 5y ago
      Not that anyone will likely see this, but I just now finally got my notice from Google about this change.
  - jrochkind1 5y ago
    Same. Has anyone heard of anyone who HAS gotten a notification?
  - Cub3 5y ago
    Same here but I pre-emptively moved everything to Fastmail (coincidentally) anyway, was the nudge I needed to finally drop the last of my Google services
  - rr808 5y ago
    Wait what? This is the first I've heard of it. Bad timing.
- GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
  There was an HN discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432 People are pissed.
rootusrootus 5y ago
Yep. I've been a Fastmail customer for a while with a couple of my own personal accounts, but our family e-mail domain was a legacy GSuite account. I'd get pushback from my brothers when I'd suggest we switched to a paid service, because they didn't want to pony up for email accounts for their kids. Cheapskates :). But now Google is forcing the issue, and Fastmail is cheaper. And they have a $3/month account which is good for the kids who don't get tons of email.

devb 5y ago

Can I ask which news? I'm already a happy Fastmail customer, just curious.

JaimeThompson 5y ago
This [1] Neat fact, Google is yet to tell me they are making this change to my account. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-suite-users-pay-up-or-lose-your-account/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/google-tells-free-g-...
- rootusrootus 5y ago
  Yeah, I haven't gotten the official notification yet either. Maybe going in waves?
  - julianwachholz 5y ago
    I disabled the GMail service in my GSuite account, will they honor the domain's current MX records? Because I know they don't for calendar invites.
  - rootusrootus 5y ago
    Not that anyone will likely see this, but I just now finally got my notice from Google about this change.
- jrochkind1 5y ago
  Same. Has anyone heard of anyone who HAS gotten a notification?
- Cub3 5y ago
  Same here but I pre-emptively moved everything to Fastmail (coincidentally) anyway, was the nudge I needed to finally drop the last of my Google services
- rr808 5y ago
  Wait what? This is the first I've heard of it. Bad timing.
GeorgeWBasic 5y ago
There was an HN discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996432 People are pissed.

rootusrootus 5y ago

Yep. I've been a Fastmail customer for a while with a couple of my own personal accounts, but our family e-mail domain was a legacy GSuite account. I'd get pushback from my brothers when I'd suggest we switched to a paid service, because they didn't want to pony up for email accounts for their kids. Cheapskates :). But now Google is forcing the issue, and Fastmail is cheaper. And they have a $3/month account which is good for the kids who don't get tons of email.