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Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#21

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…

Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#22
post #10

I love Fastmail, but they are ultimately based in Australia. I really thought they would have moved their operations by now.

This is the singular reason I have chosen their primary competitors over them. In this day & age you need to be aware of these details.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#23
While Fastmail will not save us from the slow, declining viability of self-hosted individual and small business mail servers, their positive effect on the e-mail ecosystem is wonderful. My decision to use their service (even though it is quite pricey, and a cheaper host would do the job for my meager needs) is because of that societally beneficial work.

A hearty thank you to all the Fastmail devs who read this; thank you for your good work!

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#24

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…

The native iOS mail app is push notification enabled from FastMail; there’s no reason to not just use it.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#25
post #21

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…

Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

Android 10 (at least on my Pixel 2) doesn't have a native email app (other than Gmail), though of course there are lots of options.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#26
post #21

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…

Just wondering: why don't you use your phone's native email app and IMAP?

Yeah, I've just got Gmail as a 'native' app. Which sort of defeats the purpose of switching to Fastmail for me hah.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#28

A lot of people probably don’t know that Fastmail was started by Jeremy Howard, one of the creators of https://www.fast.ai which is by far the best way to learn deep learning IMHO :)

Thanks! I haven't been involved involved with Fastmail for the last 10 years, so I can take no credit for how amazing they've been throughout that time - but I'm thrilled to see that they're still doing well. I'm still a very happy Fastmail user :)

So many little things are done right, and all with open standards.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#29
post #10

I love Fastmail, but they are ultimately based in Australia. I really thought they would have moved their operations by now.

Yeah, I just recently shutdown my account. Moved over to mailfence. I already miss fastmail's functionality, and that fea.st domain was pretty fun. Still... Australia.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

#30
post #24

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…

The native iOS mail app is push notification enabled from FastMail; there’s no reason to not just use it.

This. Only thing I’d like is offline notes in it. Literally in the middle of the supermarket and I can’t get to my shopping list
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