You're talking about the difference between adding the domain as a secondary domain/adding it as an alias domain, correct?
To connect a domain name to App Engine, it's always been recommended to use the domain as a primary or an alias domain on Apps. Configuring it as a secondary domain might give you distinct email accounts, but in my experience that introduces strange issues for Apps management and config - not only for App Engine but other services as well. I understand your point, but at the same time I think the change helps streamline Apps and probably helps reduce support costs as well. Frankly, I've always thought it was strange that Apps had 3 different ways (primary, secondary, alias) of configuring domains. If you absolutely must have free email accounts, I would suggest looking at your registrar - GoDaddy and other registrars occasionally have sales where they bundle free email or another service with the purchase of a domain. It's entirely possible to configure an alias domain, use it for an App Engine site, but to use an external mail service for that domain. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Philip Kilner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 21/01/15 16:04, PK wrote: > >> Yes old Google Apps accounts are grandfathered with the terms of the >> time they were opened. >> >> > Mostly! > > Google recently disabled the ability to add an additional domain to an > existing account - you can now add an alias domain, but not a domain with > distinct email addresses. > > Whilst this is a PITA in my particular circumstances, it's not a huge deal > - but there was no announcement, and Google's support folks are pretending > that it has always been that way, which is simply not true. > > This has considerably reduced my faith in Google's commitment to not > reducing the functionality of these grandfathered accounts, and I've > essentially stopped starting up new projects in them. > > > -- > > Regards, > > PhilK > > > 'a bell is a cup...until it is struck' > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/google-appengine/54BFE6E9.7000106%40gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CALSvALDtRoFnU77S24v-zVkQ-axoG5RjXa%2B-VLBU0F9y0ghByw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
