Have been using Fastmail for the last 2 years for my startup.
Can't speak for other use cases but highly recommend for solo devs and small teams.
Great support, great pricing and never had an issue with their services
An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
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Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#182the subdomain addressing is interesting but not really portable. Personally I only use it for things that I would be okay using a 10minutemail for, and I use plus addressing for anything that would be more permanent.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#183Considering moving to Fastmail myself. I usually use mailbox.org but they've been having far too many outages recently (some declared on their status page, some not). Problem is I use numerous E-Mail aliases for different services and it seems intimidating to transfer them all. Can anyone speak to whether Fastmail is more or less likely to be accepted on "strict" sites that require larger providers?
It's only anecdotal but for every site that rejects my personal domain they accept a fastmail.com alias just fine.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Tradeoff: Failing to accept a limited number of rarer domain. Vs. all the errors caused by idiots who can't spell mgail.com, or gmail.cmo, or gmali.com, gmail.kom, or whatever the heck that thing is.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some TLDs get rejected or autocorrected by broken validators. I've had foo.dev changed to foo.de.
I was on the application for the .name top level domain back in 2000 and then there was a reasonable excuse for that - we were in the first new batch of TLDs. We had to contact a lot of site owners to try to smooth the path. But given the number of new TLDs since, you'd think people would've learnt.
I have a .name account and still occasionally run into sites that don't accept it.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#186Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have proton email since they had the .ch domain and two passwords to open your inbox, never used it for anything serious. Fastmail works well because you should never think of emails as private or anonymous, the protocol itself wasn’t designed with that in mind, I won’t even mind to have my whole email publicly shared like a blog because I never used it for anything private.
How come you use both instead of just migrating fully to fastmail?
I have multiple emails from different email providers I collected over the years, some are very unknown or obscure, that being said, I don’t actually use protonmail, last time I logged in probably few years ago.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#187I'm a happy user of Fastmail, but I would prefer a properly EU-hosted service. (Fastmail now have data storage in the EU, but much of their infrastructure is in the US and data still passes through there - something that they're open about, but I'd prefer not to happen). The last time I looked at mailbox.org the offer wasn't nearly as good as Fastmail in terms of storage, catch-all email addresses etc, but I took ano…
As Fastmail themselves have pointed out many times, e-mail is inherently a multi-party activity with both parties holding a copy of the e-mails. Aside from the microscopic amount of people GPGing their e-mail and sending it over good servers, your e-mail is as private as the other party treats it. Which isn't very much. And you can't do anything about that. You want private and / or anonymous communications? Don't us…
I want some sort of hybrid paid for by my fastmail sub. Something like a first party gpg on the happy path for anyone who uses fastmail and a wasm/whatever (if possible) web app link for keen buy not willing to pay email recipients.
I.e. my friends who are willing to share keys now and then but not actually pay for the service.
Otherwise I'm stuck with signal asking for donations forever / waiting for something to actually replace email.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
This drives me insane. Lazy input boxes that only accept email domains from the big names.
Tradeoff: Failing to accept a limited number of rarer domain. Vs. all the errors caused by idiots who can't spell mgail.com, or gmail.cmo, or gmali.com, gmail.kom, or whatever the heck that thing is.
Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to handle their perfectly correct and validated email address is actually a form of discrimination.
My pet hate is my bank refusing to email me bank statement notifications to mail@mydomain.com ("not a personal address"), yet their password validation and marketing emails get through quite OK. Somehow they seem incapable of acknowledging that one department of the bank has made a technical decision in conflict with other departments...
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tradeoff: Failing to accept a limited number of rarer domain. Vs. all the errors caused by idiots who can't spell mgail.com, or gmail.cmo, or gmali.com, gmail.kom, or whatever the heck that thing is.
Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to handle their perfectly correct and validated email address is actually a form of discrimination. My pet hate is my bank refusing to email me bank statement notifications to mail@mydomain.com ("not a personal address"), yet their password validation and marketing emails get through quite OK. Somehow they seem incapable of acknowledging that one department…
> Excluding people from services because you can't be bothered to ...
Yes. But like most forms of discrimination, it's probably 100% legal. Same as Chuck's Pizza Parlor refusing to deliver outside an X mile radius, and 1st National Bank refusing to use the full legal name of anyone who's name exceeds the size of their DB's 'CustomerName' field.
Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
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Primary domain name. You pay for the inbox, not the domain.
Maybe I am misunderstanding but I don't think this is true. Indeed you pay for the inbox, but it's not the primary domain. You can reply from any of the email addresses you created (which doesn't cost extra) and it automatically sets the FROM to be the email it was received on
This is indeed how it works.