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Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

I (and a lot of other people around here) are enthusiastic FastMail customers. Hit any of us up off-site if you are interested in a referral code (10% off). It costs money, but you get a really solid webmail experience with real human customer support. The CEO is active here on HN and posts pretty solid things like this: https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electroni...

I have a strong belief that FastMail's business model is aligned with my interests/values, and they're a strong open source community member with initiatives like JMAP.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

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Post by mikebos »

I've tried a lot of mail services over the years and every time come back to gmail, well actually GSuite. Stuff I tried: - Posteo.de: Great, but you can't use your own domain or groups, which was a dealbreaker. - Fastmail: Nice enough, didn't really care for the web interface though. - Postbox: Great, after the merger with fastmail got the fastmail webinterface :-) - Microsoft hosted exchange: It was ok, S.O. wasn't a fan due to slow webinterface on a tablet. Spam filtering was a weak point. - MXRoute: Nice service, good price/quality. In the end however I didn't liked that I couldn't control the spam filter (you have some config options but mostly it's global).

Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

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Post by farnsworthy »

I'm only using it as a throwaway, but ProtonMail seems okay.

(Scraped quickly after posting here in a hiring thread, too: "Good day to you and your family. I apologize if the content here-under are contrary to your moral ethics but please treat with absolute secrecy and personal as that is my business proposal to you.")

Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

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Post by mariushop »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

I (and a lot of other people around here) are enthusiastic FastMail customers. Hit any of us up off-site if you are interested in a referral code (10% off). It costs money, but you get a really solid webmail experience with real human customer support. The CEO is active here on HN and posts pretty solid things like this: https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electroni... I have a strong belief that FastM…

I found the idea of mail as long-term memory (also, as file-system) alluring. I instantly started working on a "pay once" email system, reserved http://memoria.email and put up an early-acces address reservation system. Working on it as speaking.

Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?

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Post by vivan »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #2

I (and a lot of other people around here) are enthusiastic FastMail customers. Hit any of us up off-site if you are interested in a referral code (10% off). It costs money, but you get a really solid webmail experience with real human customer support. The CEO is active here on HN and posts pretty solid things like this: https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electroni... I have a strong belief that FastM…

One issue I have with FastMail is the reuse of email addresses. It is possible to "hack" accounts on websites which were registered to expired email addresses by simply registering that email address anew and doing a password reset. This is very common in the domain space, where email addresses are publicly listed.
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