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Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
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Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#12For me, ProtonMail’s inability to support standard clients without an awkward bridge app completely kills it. One of email’s biggest positive points is its client agnostic nature which makes it cheap and dead easy to use anywhere. Being tied to a web client, as ubiquitous as web browsers may be, is a marked downgrade.
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#13My only issue with Proton Mail is that so many sites don't allow me to sign up with a Proton Mail address. They seem more than happy to accept Gmail but for some reason don't like Proton Mail.
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#14Related: when you run out of storage, what's the best way to archive old emails?
Currently I just save .eml to standard backups (not offline, but not email-connected in any way).
I suppose my ideal setup would be some sort of secondary IMAP server that I run, serving archived emails from disk, that clients can access and transparently merge with the primary server provided by the email provider.
Is anything similar possible? Anything better than what I'm doing today?
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#15I am a happy fastmail user. I've had zero issues using it for several years.
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#16My only issue with Proton Mail is that so many sites don't allow me to sign up with a Proton Mail address. They seem more than happy to accept Gmail but for some reason don't like Proton Mail.
Mind to name and shame?
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#17For me, ProtonMail’s inability to support standard clients without an awkward bridge app completely kills it. One of email’s biggest positive points is its client agnostic nature which makes it cheap and dead easy to use anywhere . Being tied to a web client, as ubiquitous as web browsers may be, is a marked downgrade.
That's what you get for privacy. Honestly, the bridge works so flawlessy on my Mac and Linux machines, I don't mind that it is there.
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#18I’ve recently switched to ProtonMail. Here are my takeaways: - web client and mobile clients are functional for day to day work. - IMAP integration (only in paid version) is a SNAFU and basically does not work. - support responds to emails, but slowly (takes them 24-48 hours). - importing messages is possible via the (beta) ImportExport tool. The tool is not 100% stable yet, so prepare to waste half a day on it. Hone…
The IMAP bridge is very slow and I guess, if you are someone that needs to retrieve emails every minute, that can get annoying. Otherwise in my experience, the bridge worked without big issues, using Linux (Manjaro and Arch) and macOS.
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#19My only issue with Proton Mail is that so many sites don't allow me to sign up with a Proton Mail address. They seem more than happy to accept Gmail but for some reason don't like Proton Mail.
Never ever had that issue with Protonmail so I'm very curious where this happened for you.
Re: Ask HN: FastMail vs. ProtonMail?
#20Being banned by Russia has to be a vote of confidence for ProtonMail.