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Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by bruce_one »

girvo wrote: post #55
ForFreedom wrote: post #43

Is there an app password protect as in CloudMagic? What is the one good reason for me to opt fastmail?

> What is the one good reason for me to opt fastmail? It's not Google. For some people, that's not a good reason, but for me it is. The fact that it's super fast, very powerful, and are an Australian company (I live in Australia, so things are very fast) are merely bonuses :)

> (I live in Australia, so things are very fast)

I'm pretty certain the Fastmail servers are in New York; so that's a bit of a funny reason ;-)

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by josteink »

moretrees wrote: post #65
bigphishy wrote: post #41

What isn't there to love about fastmail?

Bad Support? Australia based?

Bad support? Compared to Google? Come on. Nothing is worse than Google as far as support goes.

The only humans I've ever talked to there was when they erroneously charged me 10-100x as much as they should for my adwords campaign.

Put enough money on the table and they are willing to talk, but that's about it.

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by latch »

robn_fastmail wrote: post #44
rufugee wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree. Things like that should be discussed in public, not buried in individual emails.

My point was more that this is a thread about the new apps, not about our privacy policies. If you want to start a new thread somewhere I'd be happy to comment on it.

Fastmail customer here. This is a perfect place to answer the question: it's visible, it's the right audience, and it's relevant. Talking about whether we should be using Fastmail at all is, to me at least, related to the question of whether I should install the app.

Besides, this is an internet forum. It has threads. This is how these things work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096768/Woody-Harrel...

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

#74

Post by joneil »

robn_fastmail wrote: post #69
joneil wrote: post #67

On Android I keep getting "Sorry, legacy Guest/Member accounts are not supported. Please upgrade your account to use the FastMail app". I only signed up a few months ago, and can't find any options for an upgrade. Help? (p.s. Excited to try it out!) Edit: I am using a custom domain (a few different business accounts) if that is relevant.

Please contact support. That's definitely not right.

Done, thank you!

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by bruce_one »

robn_fastmail wrote: post #42
bruce_one wrote: post #34

Have you got/had any thoughts about making the Android app available through avenues other than the Play store? (eg Aptoide or similar, or even just a link to the apk) I have Fastmail and support for Android apps; but no Play store access... (And if it was a concious decision not to, any particular reason? :-) )

The main feature of the Android app is push notifications, which requires Google Play Services. A version of the app without push notifications is pretty much identical to just using the regular web app in Chrome Android, so there didn't seem to be a lot of point doing distribution via other means (with the extra maintenance overhead that brings). If there's enough demand for something else then we'll be happy to rev…

That's a pretty excellent reason :-p

It's no stress, as the web client is excellent - was just partly wondering whether it had been considered :-)

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by robn_fastmail »

bruce_one wrote: post #71
girvo wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What is the one good reason for me to opt fastmail? It's not Google. For some people, that's not a good reason, but for me it is. The fact that it's super fast, very powerful, and are an Australian company (I live in Australia, so things are very fast) are merely bonuses :)

> (I live in Australia, so things are very fast) I'm pretty certain the Fastmail servers are in New York; so that's a bit of a funny reason ;-)

Haha. Yeah, they're in New York. Our offices are in Australia though, so its in our best interests to make sure things go fast! I can only imagine what it must be like for people actually in the US :)

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by TheSisb2 »

vincentkriek wrote: post #61
sasas wrote: post #57

Please be aware FastMail is subject to Australian law. [1] The government is scrambling to pass laws for mass surveillance [2] and controversial data retention laws. [3] [1] https://www.fastmail.com/help/legal/privacy.html [2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/australian-government-... [2] http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/16/privac...

What other email host would you advice that is on better law?

Honestly, none. :/

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by zw »

Thrilled to see FastMail tastefully and respectfully grow their ecosystem. I can see that, at least for the iOS app, it's pretty much a web view wrapper; I'm willing to give it a pass for the most part because FastMail's webapp is one of the best I've used… ever.

Even still, as a green-fields iOS app, I'd expect to see a little more in the way of embracing features that are now native. We have notification actions, extensibility, file sharing, and a Pebble SDK too, y'know.

Still, keep up the good work! You'll have my dollars as long as you're not Gmail.

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by stormbrew »

So, hosting email has two hard parts: - Spam filtering incoming mail. - Sending mail in a way that the other end will accept.

The actual IMAP server part I'm happy to host myself, but these other two parts take up too much time. Right now I use gmail to do these two things, but it's imperfect for a lot of reasons.

Would FastMail be a better choice for this? Or are there better ways to outsource these hard parts? I feel like there should be a reliable service that does just those bits, but I've never found one.

Re: FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

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Post by robn_fastmail »

zw wrote: post #78

Thrilled to see FastMail tastefully and respectfully grow their ecosystem. I can see that, at least for the iOS app, it's pretty much a web view wrapper; I'm willing to give it a pass for the most part because FastMail's webapp is one of the best I've used… ever. Even still, as a green-fields iOS app, I'd expect to see a little more in the way of embracing features that are now native. We have notification actions, e…

> We have notification actions, extensibility, file sharing, and a Pebble SDK too, y'know.

Apart from the Pebble SDK, most of those landed in iOS 8. We were already in testing at the time it came out and our lead developer was preparing to travel, so we decided it was better to release rather than wait a few more months.

Of course there will be updates. We want to do lots more with the app; this is just the beginning :)

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