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> Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it ... Probably took a few hours at most. That does indeed sound as daunting as I feared, unfortunately.
A few hours pf effort to liberate your email from Google. Well worth imo.
(Don't get me wrong, I still want to do it, but it's still daunting.)
Considering moving to Fastmail myself. I usually use mailbox.org but they've been having far too many outages recently (some declared on their status page, some not). Problem is I use numerous E-Mail aliases for different services and it seems intimidating to transfer them all. Can anyone speak to whether Fastmail is more or less likely to be accepted on "strict" sites that require larger providers?
I have a catchall *@domain.tld and Fastmail when it receives an email on an alias, responds correctly with the proper alias.
Also when I compose, it let's me write in a custom alias for the From sender.
Other providers and email clients seem to want you to create an identity for each alias which is a huge burden.
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If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?
Primary domain name. You pay for the inbox, not the domain.
The only downside is that search is not as effective as Gmail.
Other than that, they have everything I would want an email provider to provide. On the last renewal I checked the competition. ProtonMail is nice but they are expensive and the end to end encryption comes at the price of breaking basic email standards.
Will I keep using fastmail? If they keep their prices reasonable, I don’t see why I wouldn’t continue with them for another 25 years.
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If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?
If you have Fastmail configured to send from that domain as well, it will automatically reply from the same address the email was sent to. You can pick which address to send from, of those you have set up.
Anyone have thoughts on proton vs fastmail?
I have integrations e.g. for scripts, external mailers and so on, so I don't want to pay something AND still have to setup something myself and maintain it. Fastmail has the concept of app passwords, which are username+password combos that you can scope to specific services (e.g. only sending emails, only accessing calendar, ...), which is perfect for my needs.
Changing email providers sounds daunting, but it was relatively painless when I actually committed to it. I did a search over my password manager for my old email and just went through the list logging in and switching to the new email. Probably took a few hours at most. For anything I missed, I set gmail to forward everything to my new host. Cleaned up the few things I missed, and am only left with spam. I still lea…
I know it's not Fastmail's fault but it's a big dealbreaker for me since a lot of professional emails are on Gmail / Outlook. I had this same issue with Proton, missed some opportunities because they didn't even see my mail.
Is fastmail gated with 'whatwg cartel' web engines like gmail.com?