Posts by Slick2097

BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year

Re: First i've heard about the EE Warrington trial

True, but my point being (maybe not articulated well enough) if my mobile is being used in a trial where they are removing part of my service I am paying for, then surely I should have been informed before and during the trial rather than finding out afterwords in an article on The Register.

First i've heard about the EE Warrington trial

and i'm an EE customer and I live in Warrington. I like to think i'm reasonably tech savvy and up to speed on things but this has totally slipped me by and I have had no communication about this either electronically or otherwise.

So i'm not surprised they have had no complaints because I can guarantee that 99.9% of the population of Warrington on EE had no idea they were even in a trail.

Well I guess keeping us in the dark is one way to get a resounding "success" from the trial.

Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Jumpy McJumpFace

I appreciate some people are waiting to see what happens here with Google but I decided to jump.

I transferred my .co.uk from google domains to NameCheap (free transfer, and the renewal price is cheaper than Google Domains as well when that rolls around to renewal date), signed up for the Zoho free forever email platform because I only needed the one address with the catch-all sending everything else to it.

Pretty straight forward, followed the instructions on Zoho to modify the MX and add the other gubbins needed on Namecheap. Also enabled IMAP for my google account, this requires 2fa to work, and asked Zoho to migrate the email over. Migration took about 4 hours for my just over 2GB of email. It even copied over the labels to put the emails back in to folders for me.

I'm quite happy to use the Zoho mobile apps to manage my email on my phone, webmail on PC is also perfectly adequate for me so all in all, i'm happy with it so far.

Re: Just great.

Thank you Sir. I'm considering Zoho (after Pirate Dave's positive comments) so i'll have a read and see what's what.

Its going to have to be a weekend job for me to migrate my main email over so once i've finished pondering, i'll get myself a plan and tell the missus I need a day or so to migrate.

I guess, and I came to this conclusion a while ago, that I am going to have to start paying for stuff like this which I have had from free from ages ago. I already pay for O365 for the family, I pay for my VPN access, its just the way of the internet these days. I grew up expecting services for free :)

I'm quite lucky in that I don't have many G services (android phones / Play store purchases) tied to my login, well, I have a few but i'll just have to bite the bullet on them and call it quits.

Just great.

I've not received the email yet but I think I am on the free G Suite tier. I joined (March 2012) way back when it was Google Apps just before they stopped offering the free tier in December of that year. I am a home user, my "organisation" in G Suite is myself and 3 other family members who use less that 1GB of G Drive storage and nothing else.

I've used it mainly so I can have my emails from my domain name (also now hosted by Google Domains) forwarded on to my GMail, and I used to use a bit of Google Drive storage (I've migrated that over to using One Drive as I pay for Office yearly so get the 1TB of storage). Not exactly a heavy user. :)

So, I will not be paying $6 a month for this. I will have to migrate my data and go somewhere else that offers a similar service for free. If that means binning off GMail and the other google provided services, so be it.

I think myself, and possibly many others waking up to this news today, would appreciate people's advice on any alternative free services for those like myself that use G Suite mainly for email with the ability to use your own domain name. If anyone is aware or can recommend any solutions, please let me know via the comments. Or perhaps this is something El Reg can knock up for a future article? I'm sure I wont be the only one who would appreciate the advice.

Whilst i'm not adverse to spinning up a linux VM and creating my own mail exchange (i've done this in the past), I would prefer a hosted solution rather than relying on my home infrastructure and being at the mercy of Virgin Media reliability. :)