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Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by masnick »

warcode wrote: post #23
masnick wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point is that if you don't like Gmail ads, you should investigate switching to something else. I feel like many people are uncomfortable with the ads but might feel locked in. I actually don't care that Google is machine-reading email to serve ads (see http://www.maxmasnick.com/2012/02/12/gmail_paranoia/ ), but I do care about polluting the interface with ads that look like email for the same reason I don't like t…

Or just, you know, block the ads for a fraction of the effort.

With what? I _do_ care about running random plugins in my browser that update in the background. There's nothing stopping a malicious plugin from scraping stuff out of your email, and I feel like _that_ is a legitimate security concern!

Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by sheri »

I'm suitably impressed that Fastmail has been around since 1999. At first glance I would have dismissed it as a service which I wouldn't expect to outlive Gmail (and thus be leery about moving to it). It still may not outlive Gmail, but its history seems that its been pretty solid so far.

Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by lloeki »

masnick wrote: post #20
lloeki wrote: post #16

> MailMate and it's interesting thread hierarchy view. How is it different from the threaded view that has been present since at least Netscape days?

All the UIs I've seen in the last several years present threads flat (without any hierarchy). If there are other modern mail clients that have this kind of UI, I'd love to see them.

Thunderbird and Postbox

https://www.google.fr/search?q=thunderbird+screenshot+thread...

http://www.postbox-inc.com/images/screenshots/1_main_interfa...

Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by tomp »

nly wrote: post #28
bowlofpetunias wrote: post #18

> their servers are in New York For us as a European business, that's a dealbreaker. It's not that we are completely paranoid and migrating off of American systems in a big hurry, but moving forward, not in the US and not owned by an American company is a requirement for any new service we use. Even if we didn't care, we have to take into account our clients, and "no data under US control" has become not just a selli…

You're naive if you think hosting in Europe means you're necessarily any safer.

For (European) businesses, it's not the issue of safety, but the issue of compliance. If I (EU citizen) have personal data with EU company that stores said data on US-controlled servers, they are potentially viable for breach of data-protection laws. Since these laws are EU laws, it wouldn't be a problem if EU governments would read this data, since that's governed by the same set of laws.

Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by bcvbcvbcv »

cpursley wrote: post #21

What's the point of switching to an inferior email service if their servers are still under US jurisdiction? Might as well stick with Gmail and suffer the adds and NSA spying.

The point is to not support a company that does things you dont like.

But if you dont feel strongly about issues such as privacy, of course you dont see the point.

Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by gulbrandr »

Kurts wrote: post #27
darxius wrote: post #2

Fastmail is nice, but I don't see how it removes the right to complain that Gmail is sneaking ads in as email without warning its users first.

They're not "sneaking ads as email": http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/06/ads-in-gmails-promo...

This is not an official source.

Re: Switching from Gmail to FastMail

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Post by johnpowell »

I installed http://www.iredmail.org/ on a five buck a month Droplet at DigitalOcean around six months ago. Seems to work great and I control it. I never use Roundcube. I use IMAP from the built in Mail.app on OS X. There is even a tutorial to set everything up.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-insta...

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