Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Fastmail – 20 Years Old

fastmail.blog

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 142 posts

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#11

Post by machello13 »

eatwater123 wrote: post #8

Fastmail 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…

I would love a native Fastmail app instead of their current one, which seems like just a wrapper around their website. Not only is there no offline access, but it misses out on so many native interactions (on iOS at least) that make it feel super janky.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#12

Post by Leace »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #6

I 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.

> Still sad about the loss of the XMPP service a few years ago though.

XMPP pre-Conversations.im was pretty bad anyway but Fastmail could review their stance given some other mail providers re-enabling modern XMPP: https://mailbox.org/en/post/daniel-gultsch-creator-of-conver...

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#15

Post by eatwater123 »

acheron wrote: post #3

Anyone 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 probably the more 'open' of the two; in the sense that you can use any mail client to access your emails without a need for a bridge or anything.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#16

Post by ssorc »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #6

I 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.

This will show you when you were first invoiced:

Settings -> Billing & Plan -> View payment history and printable invoices

2002 as well and have been extremely happy with the service.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#17

Post by LeoPanthera »

acheron wrote: post #3

Anyone 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.

Proton does not offer SMTP or IMAP (except through a special tool which can't be used on mobile devices) so as far as I am concerned they're not a real "email" provider at all.

I totally understand why they do that. It's just not for me.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#18

Post by jacobr »

I love Fastmail for email, but moving all my contacts there was also awesome. I can now easily sync a subset of my contacts to my work phone without having to log in to my personal Google or Apple accounts. Feels like as soon as you add a Google connection somewhere you never know what else will be synced.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#20

Post by par »

I just left gmail for Fastmail this past month, and I have to say I've been really pleased with it. Their web interface has less frills but somehow feels a lot easier to get organized than gmails bloat of features. I use the Mail app on my phone for mobile support, and all the syncing is really seamless.
Post reply on HN