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Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by anuragsoni »

jhrmnn wrote: post #21
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…

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

My use case might not be too common, but I use fastmail with multiple aliases and the official app is the only way for me to send emails with these different aliases.

Another reason is the lack of push notification (not sure if i'm using the right term) when using the built in gmail app for fastmail. It only gives me the option to poll every 15 minutes. The gmail app also doesn't support actions like snooze, swipe to archive etc on non-gmail accounts and I like having that in the fast mail app.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by j-me »

Fun seeing Fastmail on the front page of HN the day after I started trying it out. I setup a free trial with a domain I manage through Route53, had some hickups setting the correct DNS records and reached out to their support. They were quick to respond and provided awesome, detailed technical support/hand-holding and ultimately got me up and running. The experience convinced me the love I keep reading about on here is real -- highly recommend em!

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by danShumway »

I've been using Fastmail for a little while (I'm still migrating from Gmail), and I love their service.

I've talked to support before and asked questions that got replies from a real person, which was refreshing coming out of Google's ecosystem. Their web UI is fast. Their support for custom domains is great, I can be receiving emails from a new domain in minutes.

One of their most underrated features is aliases. You have up to 500 email addresses on each account, which means all of your subscriptions can be a different email account, and those accounts can't be correlated by 3rd-parties.

With Gmail you can only use `+` and `.`, which makes it easy to derive the base email. With Fastmail, my main email can be something like `ilikecats@fastmail.com` and my Walmart account can be `iheckinhatecats@fastmail.com`. I didn't realize how useful that would be until I started using it, but it's quickly morphed into a killer feature.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by glofish »

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 lets you receive emails for the domains you own. Not forward, but actually be delivered there. Plus you can create other free addresses with domains such as fastmail.us etc.

All of which can be seamlessly connected to the same single account - you can then use rules to distribute the incoming emails as you see fit.

Switched from Gmail some five years ago, I have been happy with the choice every since!

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by kornakiewicz »

danShumway wrote: post #33

I've been using Fastmail for a little while (I'm still migrating from Gmail), and I love their service. I've talked to support before and asked questions that got replies from a real person, which was refreshing coming out of Google's ecosystem. Their web UI is fast. Their support for custom domains is great, I can be receiving emails from a new domain in minutes. One of their most underrated features is aliases. You…

I migrated about one year ago and this is a feature I really love. Every service has unique address and goes to separate folder via rules.

Also, there are automatic aliases when you use your own domain. Say, you have name@domain.com, then all *@name.domain.com are also working aliases, like spotify@name.domain.com. Really neat feature.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by glofish »

danShumway wrote: post #33

I've been using Fastmail for a little while (I'm still migrating from Gmail), and I love their service. I've talked to support before and asked questions that got replies from a real person, which was refreshing coming out of Google's ecosystem. Their web UI is fast. Their support for custom domains is great, I can be receiving emails from a new domain in minutes. One of their most underrated features is aliases. You…

plus you can even choose other domains for these new emails:

- fastmail.us

- fastmail.to

...

- hailmail.net

- mailworks.org

...

dozens of domains. they must be spending a bundle just on renewing domains ... :-)

etc this makes filtering your email even simpler.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by ScottFree »

UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #22
tenpies wrote: 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.

Which primary competitors would those be? Asking for a friend...

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by alibert »

I wanted to give a genuine praise for Fastmail in this post but upon looking up my signup year at Fastmail service (2014), I have noticed that they have increased the yearly price of my old (not available anymore) Family plan from $25 to $30. I guess it was not sustainable but I would have liked an notification about it ...

Now that I think about it, I have kind of rolled my eye when they announced that their new "snooze" feature was only available to their latest plans or big legacy account [1]. Not a move I was expecting for Fastmail.

[1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/snooze.html

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by thenewwazoo »

glofish wrote: post #37
danShumway wrote: post #33

I've been using Fastmail for a little while (I'm still migrating from Gmail), and I love their service. I've talked to support before and asked questions that got replies from a real person, which was refreshing coming out of Google's ecosystem. Their web UI is fast. Their support for custom domains is great, I can be receiving emails from a new domain in minutes. One of their most underrated features is aliases. You…

plus you can even choose other domains for these new emails: - fastmail.us - fastmail.to ... - hailmail.net - mailworks.org ... dozens of domains. they must be spending a bundle just on renewing domains ... :-) etc this makes filtering your email even simpler.

even better, you can set up catch-alls for your domains, and they support seamless outbound use of it. so if you get an email at literally_anything@example.com, replies are sent from the same address. I have it set up and it is great. every company gets a new username, and I have informed multiple companies that they've had a breach of some sort based on spam.
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