Subdomain addressing for auto-sorting is clever. Beats writing filter rules one by one.
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
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Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
i’m not sure i’ll ever delete my google accounts, but my goal was to stop using them. if someday an email comes in, it’ll still get auto forwarded, and if i need to login, i’ll have access to it.
> and if i need to login, i’ll have access to it. You hope you can ... I didn't login to a Google Account for a few months now and it suddenly wants a lot of personal details to do additional "verification" because I am "suspicious".
Did it also give you a tip to "log in to your usual Wifi network"? I have a feeling all large corps let their heuristics run wild with little to none supervison.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#143a bit overpriced, overall
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#144Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it was relatively painless when I actually committed to it. I did a search over my password manager for my old email and just went through the list logging in and switching to the new email. Probably took a few hours at most. For anything I missed, I set gmail to forward everything to my new host. Cleaned up the few things I missed, and am only left with spam. I still lea…
The daunting bit (if you're using gmail or something where you don't own the domain) is getting everyone to update their address books. I took the same approach that you did and it took years before the forwarded emails died down, even with responding to all of them with "please use my new address". I got there in the end, though.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
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#146I have been fairly happy with ProtonMail, except for a while back their Android app became unusable, often not sending mail! I started using web mail in a mobile browser, and whilst i have struggled with it for probably 3 years now it is annoying.
Tbf using it with outlook on my desktop is annoying too. The bridge often logs out on restart. I was thinking about Fastmail as an alternative
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#147FastMail has an admirable bug bounty. Have its privacy claims ever been independently audited? https://www.fastmail.com/bug-bounty/
I stopped reading their privacy policy at "Fastmail is an Australian company" - Australia is a five eyes jurisdiction. That said, I'm a happy customer of almost a decade with them, but my email correspondence is pretty boring and not politically sensitive.
Interesting. Should any email provider based in any of the 5 Eyes (or even 14) be avoided? But I feel, particularly for everyday folk, we have reached the point at which avoiding some level of surveillance is now virtually impossible.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#148Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it was relatively painless when I actually committed to it. I did a search over my password manager for my old email and just went through the list logging in and switching to the new email. Probably took a few hours at most. For anything I missed, I set gmail to forward everything to my new host. Cleaned up the few things I missed, and am only left with spam. I still lea…
The daunting bit (if you're using gmail or something where you don't own the domain) is getting everyone to update their address books. I took the same approach that you did and it took years before the forwarded emails died down, even with responding to all of them with "please use my new address". I got there in the end, though.
I had an automated reply that pretended I didn't receive mails there anymore.
I would receive some messages twice for some time, as people resent their mails to the new address
Things sorted themselves out without much effort. But indeed, it took at least a year or two.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#149Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it was relatively painless when I actually committed to it. I did a search over my password manager for my old email and just went through the list logging in and switching to the new email. Probably took a few hours at most. For anything I missed, I set gmail to forward everything to my new host. Cleaned up the few things I missed, and am only left with spam. I still lea…
Did you migrate any old email?
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it was relatively painless If you have your own custom domain, changing providers is pretty easy, IMO. In fact, the portability factor is probably the best benefit of having your own domain.
Some TLDs get rejected or autocorrected by broken validators. I've had foo.dev changed to foo.de.
This drives me insane. Lazy input boxes that only accept email domains from the big names.