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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 Gareth321 »

6031769 wrote: post #196
Gareth321 wrote: post #158

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I think the next paradigm shift in software is going to be LLM-inferred user intent. Serving just what you really want, when you want it. Currently all inside whatever interface the LLM provider offers, but soon whatever interface the LLM decides is appropriate. People won't use apps anymore. Your LLM will tell you which emails you need to address, and will automatically triage the rest (and action those which can be…

I do hope not. That sounds utterly horrendous.

It's fascinating the different opinions people have about the AI future. For me, it feels like a breath of fresh air. Like I've been fighting my computers and gadgets and appliances my whole life to get them to do what I want. AI proposes a future where the entire layer of frustration disappears between what I want, and getting it. This is basically a utopia for me, but I have seen many with similar positions to you. I hope you do not take my comment as disrespect, because it's not. Everyone has a different version of utopia.

I suspect your opinion might overlap with the preference for a manual transmission, older engines which can be easily maintained, Linux, "dumb" phones, and other products which can be easily repaired by you. I share a certain fondness for all of these, but would gladly sacrifice them to slash the frustration they entail.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by stavros »

olivierestsage wrote: post #93

I’ve used Fastmail for about 20 years. The worst thing that happened was that because of an outage in 2006, I couldn’t log in to download my homework in time for my teacher to believe I wasn’t faking. The best thing was that I deleted all of my emails in the 2020s due to an IMAP mistake and a human got in contact with me and fixed it. I think that speaks for itself. Definitely not canceling that subscription anytime…

Every time I've sent them an email to ask something, I got a response from a knowledgeable human that solved my problem immediately. They're worth the money.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by Winkelmesser »

forty wrote: post #201

I have been using fastmail for a few years (not coming from gmail) and the service is good indeed (I don't need much tbh). I'm considering switching at some point anyway as I'm trying to move the last parts of my digital life back to Europe, but I have not found an alternative I liked so far

I've been using Mailbox.org for almost a year now and am very happy. They not only host email for you but also online conferencing, simple office suite and storage drive.

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by forty »

Winkelmesser wrote: post #213
forty wrote: post #201

I have been using fastmail for a few years (not coming from gmail) and the service is good indeed (I don't need much tbh). I'm considering switching at some point anyway as I'm trying to move the last parts of my digital life back to Europe, but I have not found an alternative I liked so far

I've been using Mailbox.org for almost a year now and am very happy. They not only host email for you but also online conferencing, simple office suite and storage drive.

They are in my list with mailo and mailfence. Mailbox have the benefit of allowing monthly subscription so I can easily try them

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Post by xkcd1963 »

rationalist wrote: post #73
bix6 wrote: post #64

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Do you know if it’s @proton domains specifically? Eg are custom domains similarly affected?

I only received complaints from people with @proton addresses. Very few people use non-free email addresses.

You should really stop spamming.

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Post by IndySun »

ivankra wrote: post #203
IndySun wrote: post #147

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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.

Sadly true. Even if your provider takes privacy seriously, chances are the other side is using US big tech who'd happily give away their copy of your data to any sufficiently credentialed authority.

Just to follow up. Is it your contention (basically) that any interaction with any of the Five Eyes country is suspect? I realise this puts (guesses off top of head) 95% of all internet traffic, theoretically including such 'privacy focussed' open source projects emanating from the five eyes/95%, as suspect too. Are we all incapable of being apart from that 95% (assuming you're in that 95%)?

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Post by grsmvg »

dboreham wrote: post #190
scronkfinkle wrote: post #163

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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.

I meant the opposite of what I wrote! I read it wrong

Re: An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail

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Post by AustinDev »

disposedtrolley wrote: post #62
AustinDev wrote: post #46

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>I was using a @gmail.com address. Bad mistake on my part. So actually tracking what I used the address with, that was my real pain. This is thankfully mostly solved now by AI. I recently had a do a migration that I had been putting off for years and it was relatively painless.

> This is thankfully mostly solved now by AI. How did you solve this with AI?

I had it read all of the emails find which accounts were associated with the old email and then go switch them to the new email. I only had to manually intervene for 2 accounts out of 36ish.

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Post by Ferret7446 »

stevesimmons wrote: post #188
bell-cot wrote: post #184

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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…

Is it discrimination if you decide to switch to custom power outlets in your house and then you complain that local hardware stores don't provide compatible parts?
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