Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by Normille on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @04:09PM
(#30000166)
UPDATE: Well, I've still not received that email from Google and, when I log into my Gsuite admin account, it's still showing "You are on the G Suite legacy free-of-charge edition. Consider upgrading to Google Workspace Business Starter." at the top of the Admin Console page. And, underneath:
Plan details
Payment plan -- Free plan
Licences -- 88 available, 12 assigned
Estimated monthly bill --Free edition (no charges)
So, either that article was a spoof, or Google are rolling this out gradually.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by wayoutthere on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @12:50PM
(#29997179)
Email is increasingly difficult to do yourself with the proliferation of anti-spam and anti-malware protection, combined with consolidated usage of SaaS apps for email across the board. Most of the IP address space in AWS and Azure is blacklisted by spam filters (as is customer IP space from most ISPs if they don’t already filter SMTP traffic), so unless you want to roll the dice on config settings for everyone you send email to, you’re generally going to need an authenticated relay for outgoing mail — and your best option will be one of the big cloud providers.
If you want a secure mail service that won’t read your email, try ProtonMail.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by seanw444 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:09PM
(#29997546)
Everyone is so attached to big tech on all levels that no matter how hard you try to escape, it all comes right back. You can set up your own mail server and still get screwed over. So sick of it.
I'd honestly rather roll the dice on emails than contribute to the monopolization.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by derekp7 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:02PM
(#29997407)
You can set up an email server to receive mail typically (assuming your ISP doesn't block it). For outbound mail, you can create a dedicated regular gmail address, and instruct it to accept sending emails out with an alternate email/domain in the From address and set up all outbound mail to route through that. (I haven't tried this yet, but it looks like all the pieces are there under the "send mail as" setting on gmail).
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by Denatonium on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:20PM
(#29997723)
This works, but when people receive your emails, they'll show up as "From: [email protected] via gmail.com"
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by alanfranz on Thursday January 20, 2022 @01:43AM
(#30005591)
You can setup an external smtp to prevent that, using amazon ses or another provider (eg where you register your domain, like gandi)
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by rkagerer on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:37PM
(#29997997)
If you want something lightweight try SpamHero. Not quite as good as Postini was, but unfortunately Google bought and killed the latter.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by tyingq on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:05PM
(#29999224)
>Yandex Mail for Domains [0] which [at least last time I checked] was still free
It looks like it's not free anymore. I used to see a free plan, now there are only paid ones.
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by mikevo on Thursday January 20, 2022 @05:29PM
(#30016176)
It's still free, the link is a bit "hidden" under the paid options
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by lmz on Friday January 21, 2022 @11:02AM
(#30025348)
Does this even work for non-Russian businesses? I tried to register a business in "Yandex 360" and it asks for a Russian phone number and some identity numbers?
Re:Google requiring all ‘G Suite legacy free edition’ users ...
by sedan_baklazhan on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @01:39PM
(#29998025)
Very easy with maininabox.email.
If so, I guess it's time to setup my own mailserver. I've been meaning to do it for a long while now anyway, as I'm not comfortable with the thought that Google is data-harvesting all my and my family's emails. But with mailservers being notoriously difficult to setup and configure securely, I keep putting it off.
Time to get reading a few tutorials, methinks. Can anyone recommend a good lightweight email server [I have less than a dozen email accounts on my domain] and a useful tutorial on setting it all up securely?
Incidentally, I run email accounts on some of my other domains, using Yandex Mail for Domains [0] which [at least last time I checked] was still free. Im slightly dubious about using it for my main domain though as I've found delivery to be less than 100% reliable. In the past, I've had one or two emails disappear completely. Yandex's own mail logs showed them being received, but they never showed up in my inbox or any of my other folders.
I suspect Yandex have a slightly over-eager server level spam filter, which ate them before they ever reached my inbox. But Yandex's support are generally useless and were unable to tell me what had become of the emails in question, even when I presented them with their own mail log.
[0] https://yandex.com/support/connect/add-domain.html