I've been looking into doing this, so this post came at a good time. Especially the UI/keyboard shortcuts appeal to me, as that was the main reason I stuck with google over other solutions.
From Gmail to Fastmail
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#12I also recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and haven't looked back. The webmail is fantastic, they're not scanning my email to show me ads, IMAP works great across all of my devices (which makes me more inclined to use OpenPGP when I can), and I can use it with my own domain rather than gmail.com. They're also working on CardDAV and a web calendar (with CalDAV support), which will get me completely off of google…
Just curious, does it support 2FA for the web login and api key (or device keys, whatever google calls them) access for IMAP?
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#13Something I think is another huge plus people don't mention: you get an actual, living person for technical and other support.
Responsive customer support is such a huge thing, and yet so few companies do it right.
Probably because it's hard. Answering is easy, anyone can do it but making customers happy is way more difficult.
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#14I have been looking for a free e-mail provider that takes privacy seriously. Isn't there anyone out there?
What's your privacy risk assessment?
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#1580k emails per ... a day? month?
edit: or it might be accounts?
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#16Something I think is another huge plus people don't mention: you get an actual, living person for technical and other support.
yes! a week ago I opened a support ticket because of a bug. 2 days later it was fixed. pretty amazing!
Re: From Gmail to Fastmail
#17I also recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and haven't looked back. The webmail is fantastic, they're not scanning my email to show me ads, IMAP works great across all of my devices (which makes me more inclined to use OpenPGP when I can), and I can use it with my own domain rather than gmail.com. They're also working on CardDAV and a web calendar (with CalDAV support), which will get me completely off of google…
Just curious, does it support 2FA for the web login and api key (or device keys, whatever google calls them) access for IMAP?
For the webmail yes, definitely. For IMAP I don't think it would work, I personally use OTP when I do IMAP on an insecure device.
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#18I also recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and haven't looked back. The webmail is fantastic, they're not scanning my email to show me ads, IMAP works great across all of my devices (which makes me more inclined to use OpenPGP when I can), and I can use it with my own domain rather than gmail.com. They're also working on CardDAV and a web calendar (with CalDAV support), which will get me completely off of google…
Never heard of FastMail before this post, and I'm considering switching now. I have a personal mail server, but it was a PITA to set up, and it probably needs AWS SES (since everything I send mostly ends up in people's spam folders), and there's always the possibility of the VPS going offline for some time.
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#1980k emails per ... a day? month? edit: or it might be accounts?
Total. Article updated.
Re: From Gmail to Fastmail
#20I also recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and haven't looked back. The webmail is fantastic, they're not scanning my email to show me ads, IMAP works great across all of my devices (which makes me more inclined to use OpenPGP when I can), and I can use it with my own domain rather than gmail.com. They're also working on CardDAV and a web calendar (with CalDAV support), which will get me completely off of google…
The iOS push notifications are what has been causing me to move my email over to GMail. Otherwise I'd much prefer something like Fastmail.
I'm sure solutions exist for push notifications. Has anyone had success with any of them?