Why fastmail if your primary concern is snooping? End to end encrypted email like protonmail is the right option against snooping
Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
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Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#342Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm interested in keeping my data private, and willing to pay for it, I'm just not interested in maintaining a server, and dealing with 1) keeping it up, and 2) keeping it secure. I'd just rather pay someone a small monthly/annual fee to do it for me, along with keeping my data private.
Would you be interested in a service where you buy your own server (metal/VPS/whatever) and through an API/web interface select which profile to run? E.g. webserver (apache, nginx, ...), mail server (postfix, exim, ...), load balancer, database (mysql, pgsql, ...), or "app" (ownCloud (has CalDAV support), Wordpress, etc.)? The idea is that the server is yours, and yours only. We manage the setup, monitoring, alarms a…
Honestly, I'm not sure what I want.
You mention response times and priority support, and are talking about choosing nginx vs Apache. That's far more detail than I care about. I want to click a button, give you my card details, have an inbox and calendar that I can easily access on my phone, work machine and home machine, and with some level of guarantee about the security and privacy of my data. I'm not bothered about support response times - 99.9% of the time I'm not going to need it.
I want google mail + Google calendar, without the Google.
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would you be interested in a service where you buy your own server (metal/VPS/whatever) and through an API/web interface select which profile to run? E.g. webserver (apache, nginx, ...), mail server (postfix, exim, ...), load balancer, database (mysql, pgsql, ...), or "app" (ownCloud (has CalDAV support), Wordpress, etc.)? The idea is that the server is yours, and yours only. We manage the setup, monitoring, alarms a…
Honestly, I'm not sure what I want. You mention response times and priority support, and are talking about choosing nginx vs Apache. That's far more detail than I care about. I want to click a button, give you my card details, have an inbox and calendar that I can easily access on my phone, work machine and home machine, and with some level of guarantee about the security and privacy of my data. I'm not bothered abou…
Thank you for responding.
The listed roles were just to show the idea of the service; an role providing mail and calendar (e.g. Kolab) would only have a few required options (if any). Any additional detail would be optional and have our default recommended values.
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#344I moved from Google Apps to FastMail for six months or so. I'm back to Google Apps now. For me, I had a quite opposite experience...FastMail searching was much slower, and the return to folders instead of labels made organizing my mail more difficult. Additionally, GMail's Inbox organizing (slicing in Primary, Social, Promotions, etc) is invaluable when you receive many, many messages a day. Fastmail's interface, alo…
I had exactly the same experience.
The final straw for me was finding a solid android experience. Specifically, a client that didn't eat my phone battery whilst still providing the near instant notifications I've come to expect from Gmail. When using fastmail via imap in the 'gmail' app it didn't seem to get any push notifications and the polling was either too slow or too battery draining depending on the time interval configured. When I tried fastmail's webapp thing I found the searching and offline experience lacking. Maybe it's moved on. All the (free) 3rd party android imap clients I tried were horrible to use.
So I also came crawling back to Gmail. Which was a shame as fastmail's calendar is so much better, almost worth it alone.
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about the family or business plans? They seem to have custom domain even at the lite option. https://www.fastmail.com/signup/family.html
It says no custom domain support. I only see it at the enhanced option, just like personal.
Uh, it says "Use your own domain or one of ours" at the top. That sounds to me like you can use a custom domain with any family plan, Lite and Full included. Are you sure that isn't the case?
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
You feel that it's a liability compared to storing the 12 years of email elsewhere, or compared to just not storing 12 years of email? What about the utility of the archive compared to the liability?
I feel it's a liabilty to keep it online. Storing it offline is useful.
Why not just download your old mail and archive it then? Google provides an easy way to do this (Google Takeout).
As in, I don't see the problem with having more storage - you use only as much as you want.
Personally, I find having all my mail searchable from any computer useful. And Google does provide lots of security features (2FA, suspicious login detection, new login alerts, login audit logs etc)
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#347I'm a FastMail user for about a year now. The one thing about the android app is that you get real push notifications. This is a great feature, that you don't get with ANY OTHER mail app for android. The interface of the android app seems to be a web-view, and I don't like it at all. The resolution is low, and it takes a long time to load. Overall, the push notifications is huge for me. I tried using the Gmail app co…
K9 for Android does immediate push notification. You just need to configure IMAP IDLE.
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#348Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN and FastMails mobile interfaces are the only mobile interfaces I am able to use on the entire Internet
Twitter has a nice mobile interface as well.
For me, using Chrome on Android, Twitter's mobile interface displays an error page whenever I try to attach a photo. Apart from that it's quite nice.
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
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Just a heads up. I hate badmouthing companies, but... I wanted to use them instead of Google but my standard .com domain kept error int out in there interface and multiple support emails and posts in their support forum went unanswered so I bailed back to Google. I wanted to like them, but their signup and support experience was terrible. Their other products seemed to work well, but they've lost me as a customer.
(Zoho CEO here) I am sorry to hear this. If you can email me your issue I will have it taken care of. svembu at Zoho dot com.
Hi. On a tangent, but email related. To you sub-contract the system to Alibana in the form of Alimail. The UI looks completely identical.
Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
No need to. You can have a different email account than Google account on your Android devices. Android allows you to have almost unlimited accounts fort unlimited things, and you can yourself control what gets synched for each individual account. Just keep using the old Google Account for play services and the like and your new email account for fastmail email. Android is nice that way.
Unfortunately that requires me to keep paying $6AUD/month for Google Apps. That may be the way to go, ultimately.
Fair enough. I have a grandfathered Google Apps account which costs me zilch and nada, so it's easy to forget that for other people it costs money.