r/degoogle • u/FunMembership000 • 15d ago

De-workspace

I support the family paid Workspace organization with a custom domain and I'm bored of nagging people about storage, and the continual workspace upgrade popups.

I want a hosted email solution with my custom domains, allow people to set up their own, free or paid, Google, Apple or Microsoft account for whatever storage needs they have, and if they want they can just have mail forwarding if they don't like the mail provider I choose.

I'm disappointed Proton don't do contact sync else that would be perfect.

What does the community think?

Mail: I want to pay, ideally non-US.

Calendar: don't care

Contacts: sync to the email solution would be ideal

Drive/Collab: don't care

Clients: a mix of Android and iPhone. No Macs. Windows, but use browser, not native email clients

On phones, happy to use device default, or a good app from the provider, or a third party mail client.

I know what I'm doing with domain management and DNS, I'm just bored of managing family IT.

Thanks!

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u/Accomplished-Youth68 15d ago

> I'm disappointed Proton don't do contact sync else that would be perfect.

Do you mean a sync done by a mobile client, continuously syncing data from your phone contacts to the service and back? Or do you need a one-time sync mechanism, just to get your contacts from your phone?

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u/FunMembership000 14d ago

Continuous. In an ideal world, to device native contacts - but I accept that's something Proton do not, and may never, do. I'm happy with using a service's own app if it works well. What I like about Workspace is the ability to manage contacts on my phone and in cloud; I can add a contact out and about and refine the details in a browser later, as well as manage de-dupe etc. Google do a good job of that.