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Re: Fastmail was down

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I confirm, excellent email provider. I won’t comment on privacy since they are based in Australia which doesn’t have freedom of speech and has blanket surveillance laws. But at least it’s not Gmail, so it is safer to conduct business where Google could be competitor.

> they are based in Australia which doesn’t have freedom of speech Which countries do have freedom of speech?

In the US, companies have the freedom to take away an individuals freedom of speech.

Re: Fastmail was down

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>Happens to me roughly every two days If I were their dev I'd suggest first, use another browser for your sanity and second, get in touch with the support team to see if you can help improve it!

That's precisely what I was about to suggest. Here's what one of our devs just said on seeing this comment: > "This is the first I’m hearing about this — would it be worth it to respond and ask the user to reach out to support?" So yeah - please do contact our support team (support@fastmail.com or you can use the web form at https://www.fastmail.com/support/ ) and give as many details as you can about what you're doi…

Thanks! Next time it happens, I'll save an Activity Monitor process sample (pretty much the only way to get any insight into a locked-up Safari tab) and send it to your support.

Re: Fastmail was down

#83

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!

Can I have domain aliases with fastmail? I saw I can have email aliases but can I specifically have a second domain aliased to a primary domain? EDIT: They do. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Is this what you have in mind? See the section on mirrored domains.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Re: Fastmail was down

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Can I have domain aliases with fastmail? I saw I can have email aliases but can I specifically have a second domain aliased to a primary domain? EDIT: They do. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Yes, on a per-address basis. I have several email addresses aliased to my main account on a different domain.

Nice. Thinking about it more, I think I could live without it but I have it with Gmail at the moment. I like the per-address basis though, in Gmail I add the domain alias then when I add an email alias that alias applies to all the domains.

Re: Fastmail was down

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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!

Can I have domain aliases with fastmail? I saw I can have email aliases but can I specifically have a second domain aliased to a primary domain? EDIT: They do. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Yes - only one domain is the primary/default, you go into their Aliases section and have to set up a foo@domain1.com to foo@domain2.com mapping (if you use the add domain wizard it makes it for you). You still need to set up your DNS records for the second domain like the first.

(I bought two domains and did exactly what you're asking - after using the first for a day or so, having decided I liked the other one better I reached in and simply flipped the dropdown and chose the second one to by the default, clicked OK and it all just worked nicely)

When I look at my set message headers, it would appear that your primary @fastmail.com (or whichever of their domains you choose) is your actual primary, and that even your first domain is just an alias to the actual user account domain.

Re: Fastmail was down

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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!

Can I have domain aliases with fastmail? I saw I can have email aliases but can I specifically have a second domain aliased to a primary domain? EDIT: They do. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Not sure if this answers your question specifically. But yes, they do allow for domain aliases. I specifically use their wild card alias. For example, let's say I own the domain `mydomain.com`. Fastmail allows me to have `contact@mydomain.com`, `apple@mydomain.com`, `linkedin@mydomain.com`, etc. on the fly.

Re: Fastmail was down

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Can I have domain aliases with fastmail? I saw I can have email aliases but can I specifically have a second domain aliased to a primary domain? EDIT: They do. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Is this what you have in mind? See the section on mirrored domains. https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html#mirrored

Yes! That's exactly what I was thinking. I think I like the way fastmail does it more than gmail too.

Re: Fastmail was down

#88

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!

Same here. Used Fastmail at my old company for years and wish my new company moved onto it. Google Mail is so damn slow.

Re: Fastmail was down

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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!

Although Fastmail in general is offering an excellent service, their support can be too slow in an emergency. I had my Fastmail account incorrectly flagged by their scripts, account fully disabled, bouncing all my emails. It took 5 days for their support to investigate, admit their mistake, reinstate my account and issue an apology (in the form of 1year subscription). Still, 5 days of emails lost.

Ouch, that’s tough :(

Were you on your own domain? In that situation I guess you could have changed DNS and piped it to Gmail temporarily.

Re: Fastmail was down

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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)

Doesn’t that come off really pretentious when you give out your email? I don’t think I really want that feature.

I've been using my custom domain email for years and no one really cares, except maybe for a few techy friends who have the same. Very rarely I've run into badly written email validators that only accept well-known email domains.
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