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As my and my family's whole life is within my domain, this is a huge stress Google brought upon me. TBH I sleep worse because of the uncertainties. However, th
by laacz 5y ago
As my and my family's whole life is within my domain, this is a huge stress Google brought upon me. TBH I sleep worse because of the uncertainties.
However, there are still many questions to be answered and solutions to be offered:
* It is possible to use Google with non-gmail e-mail address. One can set up gmail to receive (using forwarding) and send (using an outgoing smtp) email. Self-hosted or commercial, that's not a problem.
* However, how tied are other non-workspace services to Workspace? If I get a suspended Workspace account, will my e-mails work as expected?
* Will all of my 2FA work as expected? What about my pre-paid storage purchases?
* Won't my user@domain account drop into some weird neither-here-neither-there mode, if I don't pay up?
* What will happen with my Google Docs? Right now it's impossible to transfer ownership outside current Workspace account.
I see that Google did not put much thought into this at the time of the announcement, however these few days are very stressful. user@domain is my primary email for all services where an email is required. For example, I have 20GB worth of e-mail there (since early 2000s) which I'm not ready to forfeit. Without an option to transfer it I'm lost.
- londons_explore 5y agoEmail is actually one of the easier things to transfer. This [1] project lets you download emails, including stars, labels, drafts, sent, etc. You can then re-upload them to another Gmail account with minimal loss of state. You can also import into other email services, although that route has more rough edges. [1]: https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back https://github.com/GAM-team/got-your-back