Fastmail is brilliant, better in every way than gmail. Great mobile versions, great web ui, super easy to import mail from gmail, super easy to setup local desktop clients to use it. I made the exact switch you are aiming for, for the same reasons, 6 months ago and I am very satisfied.
Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?
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#32Protonmail - for sure
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#33I'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/
I've been a happy user of Fastmail for over 2 years (and will continue to be), but their spam/scam detection has been worse than Gmail.
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#34I'm a big Hey fan. Have been using it since launch. The screener feature is great, and I like being able to organize my feeds. They've also done a good amount of iteration in the ~9 months I've had it so I'm hopeful for a consistent release of features.
I do with it had better calendar integration, or maybe it's own calendar. I'm not sure, but that's the big thing that Gmail has that I really miss
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#35I switched to Posteo [1] and am very happy with them. 1€ per month, based in Germany (but you can choose from many country TLDs [2]) and they take privacy very serious.
[1]: https://posteo.de/en/ [2]: https://posteo.de/en/help/which-domains-are-available-to-use...
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#36I'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/
Also a Fastmail user with my own domain. Reliability has been excellent, their web-app is great, and their documentation is very helpful. I've never had to contact support (in over five years), so can't comment on that. Two minor complaints: (1) their spam detection is good, but not Gmail good; and (2) their file storage has a 50MB per-file limit, even though the total cap is 10GB. I have a small personal site hosted with them. I'd like to zip all my personal files and store them with Fastmail, but I can't because the file size limit is too low.
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#37They've definitely gone downhill since their peak, but Rackspace still has decent, US-based phone support. Called about a sub-account user who had had their mailbox frozen; re-enabling the account via the control panel was of course no problem, but the cool part was this: the support rep was able to find and confirm the source of the problem (a group message which had been flagged as spam by some number of recipients). I haven't seen many other email hosts that can provide this level of detail.
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#38I'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...
Also a nice perk if you up to the $60/year "Microsoft 365 Business Basic" plan is 1 TB of OneDrive for Business storage (and a Teams license, if that's worth anything?).
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#39I'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/
Do they have an equivalent to Google's auto filtering into primary/updates/promotions/forums?
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#40I'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/
I'll add my 2 cents here and say I also love Fastmail. Everytime I contact support with a question or suggestions they respond in a day or two and with a real, live person. I've never had an outage that I've personnally noticed in 4 years, not that there haven't been any but I haven't noticed them at least. I also host my DNS with them so i can get email on all my domains and it works well, no automation API but the web UI is easy enough i don't need that for my tiny sites.