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Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by 0x53 »

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/

I will also say that fastmail is super cheap if you buy 3 years at once. Like $3 a month

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by spiffytech »

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/

I've been on Fastmail for several years since migrating off of Gmail. There are some UX papercuts in their web/mobile apps, but they're more than sufficient for day-to-day use. That's the big draw for me; I'm not happy with any of the desktop IMAP clients, so +Thunderbird is off the table for me. Fastmail does a good enough job of offering what I liked from Gmail that I'm happy to use them.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by kitsunesoba »

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/

Another vote for Fastmail here. They do IMAP right, so you can use just about any third party client without gaps in functionality or odd quirks (unlike gmail), and their webmail is light and snappy. They're also behind JMAP[1], which I think has a fair shot at eventually replacing IMAP.

[1] https://jmap.io/

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by gtf21 »

I looked at Fastmail and many others when I made this switch at the end of 2018. I moved my whole family's email setup from google. Fastmail is based in Australia, which is a five-eyes country so I ruled it out (sadly, as would have loved to use it). I wrote all of this up here: https://www.gtf.io/musings/moving-away-from-google-email/

Spoiler: ended up using Runbox (www.runbox.com). I disagree with them on this but I think the webmail UI is pretty crap. I don't use it though, and instead use neomutt (on Linux) and Apple Mail (on iOS). I've found it to be pretty reliable and the support is very responsive.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by iKlsR »

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/

I've been using premium Fastmail for a month now and brand new account is getting spam. Even coincidentally now I tried creating a rule to block this so we'll see.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by dschuler »

busterarm wrote: post #21

Migadu. https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/19/Mail-service-provider-rec...

I can’t recommend Migadu. I used them for a year, and I spent many hours dealing with delivery issues and somewhat frequent unannounced outages/upgrades which go unreported. Spam filtering is generally broken and ignores whitelists. They tend to respond to about 50% of support emails, the last one being rather petty when I left the service.

I should have seen the yearly plan fee as a sunk cost and moved on sooner. Hope this helps someone else.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by notacoward »

apazzolini wrote: post #12
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/

Fastmail's web UI is incredibly good . I've also been using it for several years on my custom domain and have zero complaints. The migration process was pretty painless. I did a one time import of my historical mail from gmail and then set up an autoforwarder --> specific fastmail folder that I look at from time to time and either unsubscribe from whatever sent an email there or update the address as appropriate.

Cosigned. I just leave a tab open, don't need an app except for my phone, and I've never been anything but satisfied with the experience. Since 2011, according to my archives.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by tilolebo »

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/

I started using Fastmail around a year ago.

Great web and Android apps, simple and fast. I contacted their support once and wasn't disappointed.

No issues at all until last week: they lost an incoming email (which was actually spam, as they could share with me the subject and sender info) due to a bug during an upgrade on their side. They credited my account with US $5 as apology.

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