Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement? • Hacker News Board

anuragsoni wrote: post #5

I've been using Fastmail [1] for around five years now. I've been pretty happy with their service and I use it with my own domain name. I find the pricing to be reasonable, and their webmail interface is really fast, and I've found their spam detection to be really good. [1] https://www.fastmail.com/

Came here to say this. Fastmail is rock-solid, well-priced, and has basically every feature I find important for business or personal email. Been with them for years and never regretted it!

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by gspr » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

I'm happy with Mailbox [1]. Been around for a while. Cheap, but a clear business model. IMAP and SMTP (should be obvious, but apparently not anymore). Under German and EU jurisdiction.

It works well with my own domain, but my understanding is that it's not great if you have a lot of users with email on that domain (you have to pay more).

[1] https://mailbox.org/en/

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Post by linuxlizard » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

Many years ago, someone asked this same question on HN and recommended runbox.com I started using them then and still subscribe. Good IMAP support. New web ui (v7) is quite nice but I still hit the older config pages.

tl;dr. runbox.com

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Post by toomuchtodo » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

FastMail

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Post by frakt0x90 » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 6:03 PM UTC

anuragsoni wrote: post #5

I've been using Fastmail [1] for around five years now. I've been pretty happy with their service and I use it with my own domain name. I find the pricing to be reasonable, and their webmail interface is really fast, and I've found their spam detection to be really good. [1] https://www.fastmail.com/

Nothing of value to add to this convo but I de-googlified 2 years ago and chose fastmail since it's cheap and extremely easy to convert to. I've also had 0 complaints.

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Post by ulfw » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 6:05 PM UTC

I'm on Exchange Online ($48/year) for Exchange push email to iPhone and iPads on my own domain - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/exchange/compa...