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

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by tothrowaway » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 8:11 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/

The Fastmail web interface currently hijacks the clipboard and "helpfully" appends the URL to your clipboard anytime you copy text from a link. It's absolutely maddening.

Aside from that, I have no complaints about their service.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by akvadrako » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

qznc wrote: post #22

http://mailbox.org I'm on their cheapest 1€/month plan for three years and happy.

I moved to mailbox.org a year ago from Exchange Online after a lot of research and trying several other providers.

It's not perfect but I think it's the best out there for any price, including the consideration they are based in the EU.

I do wish they supported 2FA over IMAP/SMTP and CardDAV.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by LaSombra » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 8:56 PM UTC

I’m very happy with mailbox.org

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by djaahk » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 9:20 PM UTC

ProtonMail [1] Plus user for the past 4 years now with my own domain. They've since added the VPN, which I find excellent and use all the time.

They have most recently added ProtonCalendar and ProtonDrive [2], which were the features I was missing the most. Thus, I moved everything over and pay for the bundle of all products which comes at just under EUR 8.00 a month (Mail, VPN, Calendar and Drive).

As mentioned by others, the webmail and UI of all 4 products is minimalist, but it is snappy and pleasing (to my taste, at least). The mobile apps on both iPhone and Android work very well, just missing threaded messages on the Android one.

Finally, of course, end-to-end encryption, hosted in Switzerland and abiding by stringent national privacy laws [3] and out of the US, 5 eyes network as well as EU realms.

[1] https://protonmail.com/ [2] I believe they're still in Beta [3] https://protonmail.com/security-details

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by amanzi » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 10:12 PM UTC

busterarm wrote: post #21

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

I can recommend Migadu too. They are great value - especially if you have lots of low traffic domains and email addresses.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by sparrc » Mon, Dec 21, 2020, 11:18 PM UTC

I use AWS Workmail. If you have a personal aws account then it's very easy to setup. The web UI is pretty basic but I just use Apple calendar and Spark for email anyways so it doesn't matter to me.

It's $4/month and you can very easily bring any domain you have registered in route53. They also let you create as many aliases as you want. It also supports both the microsoft exchange protocol and plain SMTP.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by ochronus » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 9:44 AM 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/

+1 on Fastmail. Been using it for years, supper happy with them.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by xtiansimon » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 12:25 PM UTC

If we’re just talking about email, why not just sign up with an isp and use Horde or Squirrel web access? Because Gmail has better spam filtering?

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by hairofadog » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 1:39 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/

I recently switched to Fastmail from a paid Google Workspace (née GSuite) account. Switching was super easy because of the way they keep the accounts in sync.

One thing that hasn’t been a problem but which causes me a little anxiety is that with GSuite I felt I had basically infinite storage; I sorta wish Fastmail had a tier that was a “you don’t ever have to worry about storage space” type thing. Maybe I’m worrying for nothing and I’ll never even get close to their limits.

Re: Ask HN: Best Paid Gmail Replacement?

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Post by 4d66ba06 » Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

sideshowb wrote: post #39

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/

Do they have an equivalent to Google's auto filtering into primary/updates/promotions/forums?

No