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My family uses it, but now we have to pay after they said "free forever". That's how much their word is worth.
by angrygsuiteuser 5y ago
My family uses it, but now we have to pay after they said "free forever".
That's how much their word is worth.
- dspearson 5y agoI received the email on Monday. I, too, was in the boat of having friends & family using it. It was a mistake to trust their promises, but this was from back in the day of "do no evil." They said free forever, now ask me for >$1000 a year. The insane thing is that almost everyone affected by this is likely to be highly technical, and in positions in which they have a say in how corporate spend happens. I migrated away this week. I had to explain to my friends and family about this bait-and-switch, and have them all using Google Takeout. C'est la vie. I had not self-hosted mail infrastructure since I was a teeanger, but here I am again. Thanks, I guess?
- fbnlsr 5y agoI'm in the same boat as you, as my whole family has been using a custom domain for 15 years. What did you migrate your users to? Did you manage to transfer emails/calendars?
- dspearson 5y agoiRedMail stack on a hetzner machine. Migrated mails with getmail and dovecot import, but it isn't perfect, and no calendar etc. But nobody is ever kicking me off a platform again.
- Cybr 5y agoThis is straight up extortion. Either you start paying for a "free forever" service, or you lose access to every account you registered using Google OAuth with your custom domain email address. You can migrate your domain and email, but you CAN'T MIGRATE your Google OAuth, and without that you lose access to all your accounts ON OTHER THIRD PARTY SITES.