I've been using fastmail for a while. It's been solid. A trickle more spam gets through (like, 1 every 2 weeks instead of 1 a month). The android client is solid (had been using K9 before its release). $40/yr for email is more than reasonable in my books.
does it do labels ala gmail or is it folders (ie only one label per email)? Their website doesn't seem to answer this question so my strong suspicion is it is a folder based email architecture. Thanks!
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Your suspicion is correct.
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#12https://kolabsystems.com/ is really good and you get a full groupware solution.
Or run your own kolab server in an AWS instance for instance. :-)
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#13I'd be interested in an actual gmail alternative: search-based email, ie, an API that is explicitly NOT IMAP and where a single message can live in an arbitrary amount of folders.
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#15I like http://www.zoho.com/
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#16It is amazing how this comes up on HN so often.
There is a serious startup that could take advantage maybe. Or heck, I'm going to recommend fastmail.fm, anyway, so I have to wonder if they're growing like mad.
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#17I like http://www.zoho.com/
They have a good spam filter.
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#18I use Zoho for my startup's email, mainly because it's free at our usage level, and we're very budget conscious at the moment.
The only downside I've encountered so far is that the Zoho Mail Android app doesn't support multiple accounts, so if that's something you need, you're stuck with a pop3/imap client.
I started off using Google Apps, using a Domain Alias for my personal GAFYD account, but keeping the "me" identity and the "startup" identity separate became a little bit unwieldy.