Fastmail – 20 Years Old
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Fastmail – 20 Years Old
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Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#2Congratulation! And thanks for a stellar service!
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#3Anyone have opinions comparing Fastmail with Protonmail? I know they're not going for the exact same market, but in the more generic market of "email services for people who don't want to use Gmail" I'd be interested in someone's comparison.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#4Yay very cool! Been using them for 5+ years now and I love it. Happy to pay. Their web interface has stayed very fast and well organized I think. Love the fact that you get a huge list of domains to choose for your email(s)! imap.cc is one of my favorites. ^_^
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#5Awesome. You get what you pay for. And with FastMail you get an awesome email experience. Worth paying money for something we all depend on everyday.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#6I don't think the Fastmail UI tells me but I believe I joined Fastmail in 2002 and have been using them since then. (Before that I was using Spamcop's hosted mail.)
There have been some minor annoyances over the years, but in general, no major complaints.
Still sad about the loss of the XMPP service a few years ago though.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#7Been with Fastmail for a half year now and loving it.
I can send emails from 10+ different domains and host files there super easily.
Although I'd like to see some algorithm place important emails at the top (somewhat like Gmail) and have scheduled send, Fastmail is a pretty bare-bones service!
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#8Fastmail is fantastic, no complaints at all.... besides the mobile app.
I don't care about the speed or glitches or whatever others may complain about, but I travel way too much to have no offline email access on my phone.
So this turns into me having 2 email apps on my phone (Android); one to do stuff in (Fastmail) and another (K-9 which is not great to write/do stuff in) that just sits there, likely hogging battery life, receiving emails and storing them so that I can read them / access them while in an airplane/foreign country/bad connection spot.
If they fix this I would be overjoyed.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#9Anyone have opinions comparing Fastmail with Protonmail? I know they're not going for the exact same market, but in the more generic market of "email services for people who don't want to use Gmail" I'd be interested in someone's comparison.
Fastmail is a direct competitor to Gmail. That is Fastmail is Gmail but different. Fastmail is opposed to E2E e-mail encryption as this makes some of their features impossible (e.g. full text e-mail search).
Protonmail on the other hand has OpenPGP encryption that can be used even cross providers (on https://beta.protonmail.com composing an e-mail to Werner Koch will enable encryption). But they don't support all usual e-mail features like IMAP and SMTP (there are bridges but...).
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#10I love Fastmail, but they are ultimately based in Australia. I really thought they would have moved their operations by now.