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Just do it! You'll have to choose anyway if you are one of the many folk here who use(d) a grandfathered free Google workspace plan with your own domain: it end
by Freak_NL 5y ago
Just do it! You'll have to choose anyway if you are one of the many folk here who use(d) a grandfathered free Google workspace plan with your own domain: it ends on June 1st, or thereabouts, and you'll be shunted into a paid plan (although there seems to be a waiting list for a free plan).
I did it last week. I signed up for Fastmail, followed their excellent documentation, and now only have a mandatory (new) Google account for a few apps in the Play Store that are not available anywhere else (but nothing paid). If I lose access to my Google account, I lose nothing.
My Fastmail migration basically went like this:
* Clean up mailbox, truncate mailing list folders.
* Copy mail to Fastmail using their importer.
* Change domain settings at your domain host (changing MX-records and a bunch of others); mail now goes to Fastmail.
* Set up mail and calendars in Thunderbird on Ubuntu and K-9 Mail on GrapheneOS.
- stuff4ben 5y agoThe setting up part is easy. It's migrating user logins, subscriptions, and everything else tied to your GMail account that takes time and energy. Someone really aught to create a migrator app to get people off GMail and do the hard stuff.
- ComradePhil 5y agoI dedicated most part of a day to migrate most of the subscription to a new email. Iirc, it took me more than 8+ hours.
- hyperman1 5y agoThis might actually be a great service for fastmail et al to provide: after you import old mailboxes, they should scan them for signup mails and show you a list with to migrate accounts i.e. red marks. After migrating an account, they know it, as they can scan your mail. Slowly, each red mark on your dashboard gets replaced with a green mark.
- stuff4ben 5y agoActually I was thinking it would be a good idea for a password manager to implement. They have all of the credential information, they'd just have to implement "Change my userid" logic for all websites out there. That's definitely a hard problem to solve...