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Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by fuj »

bluerail wrote: post #3

I would recommend Outlook.com from MS. I switched from all of my google services recently[1] for the same reason as you, targeting. And for the email services, I picked outlook for its minimal nature and the nice UI that gives a pleasant experience compared to the cluttered Gmail interface(IMO). I created a new email with Outlook and forwarded all my Gmail content to the Outlook including contacts using their 'Gmail…

Upvoted for the courage of recommending a service that actually works fine but is not welcome in the HN's hipster culture. Expect getting downvoted to oblivion...

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by hhandoko »

rawland wrote: post #9

Some people are mentiong services like Fastmail here. To me this sounds like replacing one "evil" with another. Can somebody please prove me wrong! Right now, I'm walking the Postfix+Dovecot+Roundcube path. Other options I'm looking into right now are: https://www.mailpile.is/ - which look very promising https://whiteout.io/ - also interesting

Can you elaborate why you think Fastmail is "evil"? It's the first I heard about it (being evil). Is it because of its proprietary nature?

I think solutions like Fastmail is popular because they work well, and most people would rather focus on running their business than working on mail server administration.

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by zachlatta »

rawland wrote: post #9

Some people are mentiong services like Fastmail here. To me this sounds like replacing one "evil" with another. Can somebody please prove me wrong! Right now, I'm walking the Postfix+Dovecot+Roundcube path. Other options I'm looking into right now are: https://www.mailpile.is/ - which look very promising https://whiteout.io/ - also interesting

In terms of ownership of data, Fastmail is definitely not ideal. However, I trust a company that has a single paid product and employees committed to the point of buying the company back from their acquirer (http://blog.fastmail.com/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-s...) more than a company with a free product committed to monetizing me and my data.

I recently switched from a setup similar to yours (Postfix+Dovecot+sup) to Fastmail because I'll never have to worry about deliverability again and Fastmail's web client is miles beyond anything else other there, especially the open source offerings (Mailpile looks promising though! I'm hoping this won't stay the case).

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by mobiuscog »

rawland wrote: post #9

Some people are mentiong services like Fastmail here. To me this sounds like replacing one "evil" with another. Can somebody please prove me wrong! Right now, I'm walking the Postfix+Dovecot+Roundcube path. Other options I'm looking into right now are: https://www.mailpile.is/ - which look very promising https://whiteout.io/ - also interesting

Fastmail aren't tracking you across many other services you use. It may be just one small point, but it's an important one.

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by sreenadh »

@comatory, think it this way. Google should be paying you $40/yr for using their service. Fastmail's business is emails. But Google's business is ads not search. That is a big difference. Considering that I have been using Fastmail's free service since 19 Oct 2003. I can assure you that they are doing a great job. The people at Fastmail need to live and their charges are very nice for the service they provide. Their webmail is great and delivery is good. But if your concern is staying away from PRISM, then I guess getting up your own is the way to go. Hotmail(Outlook.com) is great but there is not guarantee its going remain the same. Yahoo mail was great at one time, now its just a pain. Good Luck. Do tell what is your final decision. I too am planning to move away from Gmail.

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by bluerail »

fuj wrote: post #11
bluerail wrote: post #3

I would recommend Outlook.com from MS. I switched from all of my google services recently[1] for the same reason as you, targeting. And for the email services, I picked outlook for its minimal nature and the nice UI that gives a pleasant experience compared to the cluttered Gmail interface(IMO). I created a new email with Outlook and forwarded all my Gmail content to the Outlook including contacts using their 'Gmail…

Upvoted for the courage of recommending a service that actually works fine but is not welcome in the HN's hipster culture. Expect getting downvoted to oblivion...

So, that means I shouldn't post a service/product that even if suffices the OP's question but didn't welcomed by community?

It's a matter of choice isn't it?

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by dangrossman »

> I've also heard about Rackspace but that seems more complex to setup plus I couldn't find the pricing on their site

Rackspace Mail costs $2/mailbox/month. It comes with 24/7/365 phone/chat/email support and a 100% uptime SLA. The product began as MailTrust, a separate company Rackspace acquired, with over 2M users (now over 3M).

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/pricing/

They host all the mailboxes on my domains for a couple bucks a month. I don't use their webmail, just IMAP (Thunderbird/K9). There's nothing complex to set up for e-mail; I don't know about calendar or contact syncing since I don't use those things.

Re: Moving away from Gmail. Which service to choose?

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Post by fuj »

bluerail wrote: post #18
fuj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvoted for the courage of recommending a service that actually works fine but is not welcome in the HN's hipster culture. Expect getting downvoted to oblivion...

So, that means I shouldn't post a service/product that even if suffices the OP's question but didn't welcomed by community? It's a matter of choice isn't it?

Hey I'm on your side, I was being sarcastic. I also switched from gmail to outlook. But in HN everything "mainstream" gets downvoted. You like Outlook? Enjoy the downvotes, You like MS Office instead of XYZ ? Downvoted, etc, etc
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