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Ask HN: If you were to ditch Gmail, what would be your alternative to email?
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#12[Zoho](https://www.zoho.com)
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#13Fastmail
the outrage with facebook? the ability to read your mail keeps gmail free.
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#14Fastmail is a great standards based Gmail alternative. They use Cryus Imap under the hood and give back to the community. It is both powerful and easy to use. They were the only ones to be able to accommodate my formally self hosted overly complicated email setup. For the truly esoteric needs, they support custom Sieve code. [1] For business purposes Office 365 is great. It has the full power of Exchange under the ho…
I second FastMail. I originally tried Proton, but the iOS app is kind of annoying. FastMail seems really polished on all platforms. Setting up custom domain was a breeze.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to ditch Gmail, what would be your alternative to email?
#15Gmail has the best spam prevention. I'd love to hear arguments against this, but its why i stay.
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#16Zoho Mail - https://www.zoho.com/mail
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#17Gmail has the best spam prevention. I'd love to hear arguments against this, but its why i stay.
I have a gmail and fastmail address (the fastmail address is plastered all over the internet in plaintext as well), I can't say I've noticed much of a difference between the two.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to ditch Gmail, what would be your alternative to email?
#18Protonmail
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#19Protonmail.
Works great for my needs. While very secure, is still open source. And I'm always one to belive in open tech.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to ditch Gmail, what would be your alternative to email?
#20I’m using Runbox. Better pricing for multiple accounts than Fastmail since the latter ditched their family plan. The webmail interface is a bit clunky but otherwise I’m very happy with it.