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An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by kid64 »

kiwijamo wrote: post #50
anonthrownaway wrote: post #16

I recently switched over 6 gmail accounts (both personal and business) from gmail to fastmail. I have been suddenly bombarded with a mountain of spam that the goog must have been catching. It doesn't seem like my constant flagging is doing anything. I ended up building a convoluted mess of filters that will probably cause me to misflag something important one day. :-/ Also, I really miss the auto categorization into…

Interestingly, I have found it the other way around for me. While my main inbox is at Fastmail, I also have a historical Gmail account. My Fastmail inbox gets a few spam messages week. My Gmail account on the other hand gets hundreds a month (if not weekly) that slip past the google filters. This is mainly why I stopped forwarding emails from Gmail to Fastmail as >95% of the spam was sent via Gmail, and I suspect Fas…

PSA - A crucial detail about Fastmail's spam filter that should really disclosed more clearly is that your filter is only trained on email you flag from within the web UI. Invoking your email client's "move to spam via IMAP" function does not train the filter.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by xfz »

The pricing page is dishonest. It says prominently £4.50/month but that's for an annual subscription (£54 for 12 months is in smaller text below).

If you want a monthly price you have to tab across to get the true figure of £5.40.

The higher price wouldn't put me off - it's still very low - but the deception erodes trust from the very start.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by lazide »

0x262d wrote: post #118
armadyl wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people seem to ignore this point when it comes to Proton’s E2EE of emails at rest. It wasn’t even a year ago when the US government subpoenaed a Pennsylvania man’s entire Gmail inbox because he wrote a letter to a DHS attorney. This wouldn’t happen with Proton. It would definitely happen with Fastmail.

wow, hadn't heard about this until now. article: https://archive.is/J9Ant correction that it says: > The investigators who questioned Jon told him Homeland Security couldn’t obtain his emails, documents, photos or other content with an administrative subpoena, he said, but the breadth of what federal investigators did ask for shook him. > Among their demands, which they wanted dating back to Sept. 1: the day, time an…

One thing to consider - they even got the swiss banks to roll over and cough up data on their numbered accounts. This was a decade+ ago.

So good luck.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by mock-possum »

I made this exact move a month or so ago when google threw some money Musk’s way - and I gotta say, the transition was almost imperceptible. An hour, maybe, of configuring and testing, spaced out over a couple days, and boom, it’s like I was never on gmail.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by tomcam »

k4runa wrote: post #124

Fastmail is great because every time I get a new startup idea I can set up emails for each domain name I buy and it all goes to the same inbox.

If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by grsmvg »

tomcam wrote: post #126
k4runa wrote: post #124

Fastmail is great because every time I get a new startup idea I can set up emails for each domain name I buy and it all goes to the same inbox.

If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?

Primary domain name. You pay for the inbox, not the domain.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by mijowi »

tomcam wrote: post #126
k4runa wrote: post #124

Fastmail is great because every time I get a new startup idea I can set up emails for each domain name I buy and it all goes to the same inbox.

If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?

If you have Fastmail configured to send from that domain as well, it will automatically reply from the same address the email was sent to. You can pick which address to send from, of those you have set up.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by a96 »

InMice wrote: post #82
kevinob11 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to try another provider, but my family (partner, kids, grandparents) stores pictures in Google Photos, shares docs from google drive, etc. It is all the extra stuff I get with Google that feels daunting to me, I'd love to switch for email and calendar.

I dont think you need a gmail account for that. just a google account without gmail would work.

And you can move your email but leave an unused account in existence if something really really needs a G login. Not great, but doable and some time later you might find out it isn't needed after all.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by AnonC »

premier_cru wrote: post #79
frou_dh wrote: post #53

I like Fastmail but I'm starting to feel that the subscription cost is a bit overpriced for the way I use it (just IMAP email - not using the app, calendars, contacts, file hosting, ...). I've researched and found some other independent paid email providers that are significantly cheaper, although I suspect most of having a low bus factor with just 1 or 2 people operating them.

i have been using posteo.de for the last decade with no problems at all. Exactly the feature set you use. I only recently started to use their Caldav stuff which works. I recommend them.

Same here. I don't want a custom domain for certain things, and Posteo (posteo.de) was good. Posteo increased the mailbox storage to 4 GB recently and the default number of free aliases too. I'm satisfied that it's run by a team and not by one person (the low bus factor mentioned above). At EUR 1 per month, it's way cheaper than Fastmail for multiple mailboxes across family members and provides a lot more value, IMO.
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