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Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by adimitrov »

kornakiewicz wrote: post #36
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.

That feature is basically the killer feature for me. I sign up for each service with a custom email and password, and save both in pass or any other pwd manager. It makes it super easy to see which service leaked your email when you get unrelated spam. I wonder whether such an occasion would be grounds for a court case against said company under GDPR.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by adimitrov »

thenewwazoo wrote: post #40
glofish wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As nice as your information was, they probably already knew. In fact, they likely sold it in the first place.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by mkskm »

ScottFree wrote: post #38
UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

ProtonMail is the most promising.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by cbsks »

Klonoar wrote: post #24
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…

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

You have to use the FastMail app if you want to send from an email alias. That's the only reason I have for not using the native iOS mail app. Please let me know if you have a workaround!

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by StavrosK »

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…

No no, you don't need aliases for that. You can set up a catch-all at something like service@spam.yourdomain.com and have as many of those as you like, no 500 limit.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

xwowsersx wrote: post #35

I use Gmail. Don't love it, don't hate it. What's the pitch for switching to Fastmail?

Gmail takes about 30 seconds to load for me, FastMail takes about 4 seconds. The name doesn't lie. (Similarly, rather than loading page by page through big folders, I can near-instantly scroll through 10,000 email folders on the FastMail web UI.)

No ads or tracking in FastMail, it's spam protection is (IMHO, YMMV) better than Gmail's with an extremely low false positive rate.

And I get customer support from real live humans when I need help.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by dsissitka »

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.

Why would they move? The A&A bill doesn't affect them:

> Fastmail won’t be making changes to our technology or policies in response to this bill. Law enforcement has always been able to request information from us through the Telecommunications Act with a lawful warrant. Because we have the ability to decrypt all data, there is no need to make changes that circumvent encryption.

Source: https://fastmail.blog/2018/12/21/advocating-for-privacy-aabi...

I'm just some boob on the internet that doesn't speak legalese but a quick Google suggests that Gmail [0] and Outlook [1] are subject to similar laws.

[0] https://support.google.com/transparencyreport/answer/7381738...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/law...

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by golover721 »

xwowsersx wrote: post #35

I use Gmail. Don't love it, don't hate it. What's the pitch for switching to Fastmail?

One thing is the general desire to separate your email from Google.

Apart from that I find their webmail to be faster and superior to Gmail. They also provide file storage with WebDAV access which I find useful for apps (like notes applications etc) which support it for syncing between devices.

Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old

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Post by mikece »

If only they could implement labels in the same way that ProtonMail and Gmail have! I want incoming emails to show in my inbox while being tagged with a certain label or category; this ins't possible in FastMail, only the ability to move the message to another folder entirely which raises the chance of missing messages altogether.
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