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Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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Post by LaxisB »

tmaly wrote: post #99
dewey wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fastmail is great, one of the services I love paying for and importing from other providers also is very easy. They even support native push in the iOS stock mail app if you are interested in that. Also I'm incredibly satisfied with their spam filter. I have some old addresses that get a lot of spam but Fastmails catches them all. I periodically check for false positives but never see any.

Is there a wild card feature to capture any address on a domain? I currently have multiple email addresses for a single domain. If I moved the email to fastmail, would I have to pay for each individual email on that domain?

i set this up for my fastmail account a couple weeks ago. go to settings -> aliases and create an alias for *

this also allows you to write from any email address in your domain (when composing, change the sender dropdown to your *-alias, and the 'from' line appears and is editable

Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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Post by EnderMB »

greenyoda wrote: post #2

You might want to look at Fastmail.com, a paid e-mail service with actual customer support. They provide a web-based interface, mobile apps and also IMAP access, and you can use your own domain with it if you like. (I've been happily using it for a few years now, and first heard about it here on HN.)

As a service, it's fantastic. The only issue I've had with Fastmail is if you ignore a new email notification on their Android app, you won't receive future email notifications. Not a huge problem, unless you're receiving time-sensitive emails.

Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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Post by wowtip »

zhte415 wrote: post #5

For your privacy concerns, protonmail.com? You can point your domain to it and use their web interface, or your preferred email app. I wouldn't like to manage my own mail server either. While some people may be experienced at this, or enjoy the technical learning, email is just too important to me to trust myself with, so I prefer a 3rd party also.

I have a free Protonmail account set up since a couple of years back. But I found the lack of calendar always pushed me back to G Apps. I think the search functionality also was a bit lacking.

Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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Post by kertis »

blablabla123 wrote: post #114
zhte415 wrote: post #5

For your privacy concerns, protonmail.com? You can point your domain to it and use their web interface, or your preferred email app. I wouldn't like to manage my own mail server either. While some people may be experienced at this, or enjoy the technical learning, email is just too important to me to trust myself with, so I prefer a 3rd party also.

Protonmail is great. It has all features necessary but at the same time it's not creepy at all - like Gmail is. Apart from that, in fact I have this long-term project to self-host all my stuff. So far I managed to do this only for my calendar (using Apple's CalDav server). E-Mail is my next goal but even if I have it running, I'll start transitioning slowly. After all I think it's not that much maintanance effort onc…

Protonmail isn't bad, agree. But I don't like their mobile Android client because it can't group emails (each email even response is new one). But again I am using free version, so no complains. :)

Google mail is more feature-rich of course.

Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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zhte415 wrote: post #5

For your privacy concerns, protonmail.com? You can point your domain to it and use their web interface, or your preferred email app. I wouldn't like to manage my own mail server either. While some people may be experienced at this, or enjoy the technical learning, email is just too important to me to trust myself with, so I prefer a 3rd party also.

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Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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Post by canada_dry »

th0br0 wrote: post #10

How about https://kolabnow.com/ ? You can also self-host Kolab.

I recently joined Kolab to host mail and my calendar. Their customer service is so-so. They also have had some weird certificate issues that prevent my caldav from sync'ing properly - which is kinda inexcusable.

The one thing I like about them is privacy.

E.g. the employees don't have access to your mail. Period. Their policy requires them to have your specific approval to access your account/mail.

Re: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?

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Post by newscracker »

msh wrote: post #106
InternetOfStuff wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also mailbox.org While their offerings differ in the details, by and large they offer the same thigns as fastmail.

Unfortunately they have stopped accepting credit cards. They now only take bitcoin and bank transfer (and cash by mail and some other non international stuff)

That's a bummer. I checked now and found that it does accept PayPal and a couple of other options (where it may be possible to use a credit card without having an account), but those come with additional privacy issues.
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