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Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by thismodernlife »

amelius wrote: post #39
thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

I was just looking at their "about us" page, and it seems their technical staff consists of only 3 people, which I think is quite impressive.

I’m pretty sure that can’t be all of them. The founder (or maybe CTO, can’t remember) often pops up on Hacker News.

It would be good if they would blog about more about the company itself actually. I don’t remember them publishing much about that.

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Post by pmoriarty »

pavlov wrote: post #30

Fastmail's web UI has a really annoying bug on macOS Safari where it locks up the browser tab burning 100% CPU, and the only way out is to close the tab. Happens to me roughly every two days. I wish I had some steps to reproduce it, but it just comes up randomly when clicking on messages. I like the web UI, but if a desktop mail client crashed this often, I'd have deleted it long ago and switched to a different progr…

"With webmail I don't have that choice."

Through a web browser is not the only way Fastmail offers to use its services. It also supports IMAP, so you could use any IMAP-supporting mail client (which is probably all of them).

Also, while you're waiting for them to fix this Safari bug you could try using a different browser.

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Post by corytheboyd »

thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

Count me as another happy Fastmail customer reporting their satisfaction!

I switched off of Gmail to Hey last year when the hype train was at full steam. Hey was... okay, but missing so many features that Gmail had. Most importantly to me was literally any calendar integration, and custom domain support.

Instead of going back to Gmail I found Fastmail after doing some research. It's just exactly what I want, a fast web based client that has the right features. And nothing else. Bravo to the company that makes it :)!

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by PascLeRasc »

ashtonbaker wrote: post #32
thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

I'm also very happy with the product - I'll add that their iOS integration for email/calendar/contacts works as almost a seamless replacement for syncing to an iCloud account, which I found really delightful.

Thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for. Is that only the $5/month Standard plan or will the $3/month basic plan allow you to add it to iOS Calendar?

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by burnthrow »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #35
burnthrow wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience was that Fastmail has regular hiccups, they just don't make the news. I left for Google Apps years ago mostly for that reason.

Been a customer for over a decade. Can count the number of outages I've actually noticed on one hand, and they've all been very minor. I'm surprised that anyone who thought Fastmail was a good choice would even consider Google as an alternative.

I chose Fastmail for business, as an upgrade over self-hosting, because it seemed to be a solid provider, not because "Google, ew!" Turns out, Google's the more solid provider (three years as an FM customer before reaching that conclusion).

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by 3princip »

thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

Agree. After using gmail for many years it seemed like an unnecessary expense to pay for email.

Finally jumped to Fastmail 6 months ago and all I can say is I should have done it sooner. Weaning off the big boys and returning to being the customer, not the product, as they say. Feels good.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by beardbound »

thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

I also am a very happy customer. I moved as much off of Google as possible last year and even moved my mother to a fastmail domain that I manage as well. She quite likes it. The calendar works great with everything and I like that they use one use app passwords and profiles for devices. It makes device management very straightforward.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by thismodernlife »

corytheboyd wrote: post #44
thismodernlife wrote: post #25

Fastmail is an excellent company with an amazing product. The web UI really is insanely fast. And with keyboard shortcuts you can be super productive. They’re also pushing new standards (JMAP) and seem committed to privacy and best practice etc. Really one of my favourite tech companies. Not an employee just a happy customer!

Count me as another happy Fastmail customer reporting their satisfaction! I switched off of Gmail to Hey last year when the hype train was at full steam. Hey was... okay, but missing so many features that Gmail had. Most importantly to me was literally any calendar integration, and custom domain support. Instead of going back to Gmail I found Fastmail after doing some research. It's just exactly what I want, a fast w…

Yeah if you want any sort of power features then Fastmail will win over HEY every time.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Post by stonesweep »

PascLeRasc wrote: post #45
ashtonbaker wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also very happy with the product - I'll add that their iOS integration for email/calendar/contacts works as almost a seamless replacement for syncing to an iCloud account, which I found really delightful.

Thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for. Is that only the $5/month Standard plan or will the $3/month basic plan allow you to add it to iOS Calendar?

The $3 plan doesn't include hosting your own domain, you'll want to go with the $5 plan so you can get you@yourdomain.com up and running. (edit: grammar)
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