Fastmail user here o/
Simple, cheap, secure and reliable. Offers a superior alternative to the mainstream services. IMHO. ;)
Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?
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#22Very happy Fastmail customer here. Find the web interface more responsive than gmail and the IMAP implementation seems to be play better with apple's mail clients.
Adding that connecting everything to a custom domain was a breeze to setup. Also, once your spam filter has been trained, it's very effective (at least in my experience).
Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?
#23Mailbox.org with own domain (so I can move if necessary)
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#24I have been using Posteo for a few year ( https://posteo.de/en/help?tag=end-to-end ). Pro: - Cheap: 1€/month for 2 GBs mailbox - Basic functionalities such as Web interface, SMTP, POP3, CalDav, CardDav are all included. - They seem to take privacy and security seriously, including email encryption, 2FA signin or recently Autocrypt[1] - The warm fuzzy feeling of using 100% renewable energy for your email. Cons: - No c…
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#25Mail-in-a-box is AWESOME ... for 3+ years without a hitch! https://mailinabox.email/
Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?
#26Zoho Mail and RunBox. Zoho has dedicated EU branch if you want that: https://www.zoho.eu/ https://www.zoho.com/ https://runbox.com/ FastMail gets a lot of love here but I think Zoho has more to offer in the ecosystem if you are willing to pay. It's a pretty decent drop in functionality replacement for a lot of Google (docs etc). RunBox is kind of simple and and old school but it's solid and works. Zoho Mail is also a…
I'm also using Zoho, since it was the only provider I could find that let me use my own domain for free. It's been working great so far.
Up until fairly recently, I was using Pawnmail (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8548307), but it became very unreliable. Half of my sent mail bounced, and then it just stopped working altogether.
I use Thunderbird as a client.
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#27Fastmail (since 2013) & pobox.com (since 1997). Now they're the same company...
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#28I've been trying out Protonmail which I'm happy with, but in practice I'm still using Gmail.
I'm reluctant to move away from my @gmail address, and inform all my contacts to use the new one. Besides that, I notice that orally communicating [anything]@gmail.com is much easier than any other domain. I wish I could take my gmail address to another service.
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#29I have run my own mailserver for not quite 20 years. My preferred mail client is mutt, but I use K9 on Android several times a day and I set up rainloop, a web mail client.
When people ask me for advice and they are not in a position to run their own mail server, I generally recommend Fastmail.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use instead of Gmail?
#30Yandex.