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Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by StavrosK »

notacoward wrote: post #49
apazzolini wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Agreed. Their UI is the fastest web app I've ever used, bar none.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by xahrepap »

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/

Could you tell me if you’re using your own domain if you can route all emails to your domain to one inbox? I’ve been grandfathered into a free GApps account and use my own domain thru there. I’ve started signing up for services using a unique email address per domain. So hn@my.domain, reddit@my.domain, etc. I’d love to move to something non-google. But I can’t lose that functionality at this point :)

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by x0x0 »

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 the same amount of time. tl;dr: I encourage you to switch.

One of the be things about fastmail is they've been rolling out noticeable improvements to their web apps over the last 2 years.

I'd say the downsides, at this point, are the labels model for emails is slightly different than gmail. If you've decided you really like how labels work, Fastmail's don't work quite the same. And their contacts app isn't good. Though given the pace of improvements elsewhere, I suspect they're working on a fully-featured contacts app.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by x0x0 »

xahrepap wrote: post #52
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/

Could you tell me if you’re using your own domain if you can route all emails to your domain to one inbox? I’ve been grandfathered into a free GApps account and use my own domain thru there. I’ve started signing up for services using a unique email address per domain. So hn@my.domain, reddit@my.domain, etc. I’d love to move to something non-google. But I can’t lose that functionality at this point :)

I do the exact same thing on fastmail and it works seamlessly -- I pretty much use domain@my-address.com for every site I sign up for.

The only trick is you do have to configure configure the addresses if you want to send (not receive) mail from $recipient@your-domain.com.

I use the standard plan.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by jidiculous »

jborak wrote: post #3

I use ProtonMail and overall it works pretty good and the value is great. The product is focused on security first so I think user experience suffers a bit. It's works fine but if you previously used a mail client like Spark on your phone you'll definitely miss it. The mobile app is okay, it's good enough for reading and sending short replies. The web interface is alright. I like to use the bridge application from Pr…

I just wish it had a feature to nest folders :(

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by frettchen »

I've been using Mailfance (https://mailfence.com/) for around two years now and been very happy with them - the interface isn't the most beautiful thing ever, but it is simple to use and it works, and the pricing is reasonable (from free to 25,00€ a month depending on storage space needed).

I use my own domain and I do still have a separate Gmail account that I mostly use for newsletters, promotions, coupons, and other "semi-wanted spam" to keep things clean in my inbox.

Mailfence is in Belgium, so they're outside of the main Five Eyes but are still in a cooperating area and part of the Fourteen Eyes, which may matter depending on your precise personal privacy/risk levels, but for general personal privacy it's plenty for my use case.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by xahrepap »

x0x0 wrote: post #54
xahrepap wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you tell me if you’re using your own domain if you can route all emails to your domain to one inbox? I’ve been grandfathered into a free GApps account and use my own domain thru there. I’ve started signing up for services using a unique email address per domain. So hn@my.domain, reddit@my.domain, etc. I’d love to move to something non-google. But I can’t lose that functionality at this point :)

I do the exact same thing on fastmail and it works seamlessly -- I pretty much use domain@my-address.com for every site I sign up for. The only trick is you do have to configure configure the addresses if you want to send (not receive) mail from $recipient@your-domain.com. I use the standard plan.

Thanks! I’ll probably migrate here soon then!

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by specialp »

smt88 wrote: post #4

There's no great way to know that your emails are private when they're hosted by a SaaS email provider. It's easy to get around third-party audits if you want to. The most private solution by far is to self-host, but that's also very challenging these days. And any email you send to a non-private service (Gmail, Yahoo, anyone's work account) is instantly going to be just as insecure as if you yourself used that other…

The thing about self hosting too is that you then own your identity. I have had my own domain and email for 20 years now while many "free" email services have gone away or merged. The problem as you say with difficulty is that due to the centralization of email providers, it is hard to get your outgoing mail accepted everywhere. I now have no problems but it took a while. The worst were Yahoo and Verizon straight up denying my email as spam despite having DKIM/SPF/DMARC set up perfectly. These things too there are subtle problems that can make them invalid such as hostname differences.
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