Everyone who is happy with Fastmail, what is your "mobile strategy"? As a Fastmail customer, I find Web app wonderful but mobile app on Android severely lacking UX. Switched to Aquamail for client over IMAP but search is unusable/slow. Suggestions/success stories?
Fastmail – 20 Years Old
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Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#82Fastmail 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 reason: they recently rolled out message snoozing on the server side (this is normally achieved by client apps), however the native Mail app doesn't support this.
Fastmail's iOS app does support this functionality.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#83I've been using fastmail for a few years now and their reliability has been great, prices reasonable, and their web client is fast and convenient.
But there is one thing I cannot figure out. I have my own domain, say me@mydomain.com. The host for mydomain.com really is just a mail reflection service which sends to me@fastmail.com. When I send an email from the fastmail web interface, my identity is me@fastmail.com, and I cannot figure out how to make it accept me@mydomain.com.
There is a help page on setting up identities, but it doesn't work for me. :-( Other than than I'm 100% happy with fastmail.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#84Everyone who is happy with Fastmail, what is your "mobile strategy"? As a Fastmail customer, I find Web app wonderful but mobile app on Android severely lacking UX. Switched to Aquamail for client over IMAP but search is unusable/slow. Suggestions/success stories?
I'll admit that it's not much of a strategy, but I don't read email on my phone. (I'm not being snarky or sarcastic, btw. Of course, if you actually really need to be responding to email in real time then I'm afraid I cannot help.)
My philosophy about this can be summed up as: If it's important enough you'll call me (... and you'll call me again if I don't pick up the first time)... and I'll take your urgency VERY seriously. If you invest effort into communicating with me, then I'll reciprocate. If you're just firing off email... nah.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#85I've been using fastmail for a few years now and their reliability has been great, prices reasonable, and their web client is fast and convenient. But there is one thing I cannot figure out. I have my own domain, say me@mydomain.com. The host for mydomain.com really is just a mail reflection service which sends to me@fastmail.com. When I send an email from the fastmail web interface, my identity is me@fastmail.com, a…
Honest question: Why set up a mail reflection service rather than point your MX records at fastmail and actually use me@mydomain.com?
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#86Sincere question - why is JavaScript required to sign up for Fastmail? Is it for browser fingerprinting? If so, what data is collected, how is it used and how long is it retained? No specific mention of it in the privacy policy. If I sign up in a virtual machine, can I later use Fastmail without running scripts?
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't all mail service providers that allow a custom domain allow for creating a catch all email?
It's not exactly a catchall; it's per user, and you can also set up rules to route to different folders based on receiving address. If there are 2 users 'joe' and 'bob' on the domain 'foo.com', joe can use any '* @joe.foo.com' address and bob can use any '* @bob.foo.com' address. Fastmail pricing is per user.
Side note: Both joe and bob would have trouble proving in court that their addresses were sold, not guessed.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#88I've been using fastmail for a few years now and their reliability has been great, prices reasonable, and their web client is fast and convenient. But there is one thing I cannot figure out. I have my own domain, say me@mydomain.com. The host for mydomain.com really is just a mail reflection service which sends to me@fastmail.com. When I send an email from the fastmail web interface, my identity is me@fastmail.com, a…
I use my own domain with fastmail. Set it up ages ago. Had to upgrade my plan to make it work, but worth it. Love fastmail
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#89I'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…
The problem with aliases is that it's effectively a way to ensure vendor lock-in even for people with custom email domains. If one of the reasons to use a custom email domain is to preserve flexibility in choosing an email provider, good luck switching providers when you have hundreds of aliases set up in the hands of hundreds if not thousands of third-parties and your strategy for managing your inbox depends on thes…
Fastmail makes it very easy (unlike many others) to send emails from any *@yourdomain.com email as a sender. But if you only need to receive email, then almost any paid email service I know supports such catch-all addresses, even gmail/gsuite, there's no lock in.
Re: Fastmail – 20 Years Old
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
FWIW fastmail’s web UI is entirely built on top of JMAP. (If you’re curious you can add &debug=true to the URL in your browser to turn off compression and see all the JMAP queries the web UI makes in the inspector). So any 3rd party email clients can support all this stuff on top of JMAP in a standards complaint way if they want to. Anyone who works on native mobile email clients, please add support for aliases and snooze and all these great features via jmap!