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Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by creyes »

darthrupert wrote: post #17
jaredcwhite wrote: post #14

I still pay for Fastmail, yet I route all messages over to HEY. There's just no replicating the UX (Fastmail's web UI is…suboptimal…and I'm thoroughly over using Apple Mail). And there are a ton of neat little touches throughout HEY beyond just the immediate filtering of incoming messages. It's simplistic to think you can just add a few rules on some other system and you're done. I seriously thought about quitting af…

Why don't you like Basecamp? They seem like a really good company in lots of ways. Hey itself is a bit lackluster though.

Probably related to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26944192

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by jacques-noris »

mapgrep wrote: post #11

I’ve been very happy using Helm home email server and it’s made me a bit of a snob about hosted Gmail alternatives - these companies still have access to all your email and while I am not a big fan of Google’s business model I’m personally not comfortable having my email on any corporate server. (No affiliation with Helm just a happy customer for more than a year and hoping they succeed.)

Helm sounds interesting. But is there still no web interface to access your mails from a browser? Unfortunately that would be a no-go for me. Do you know if Helm also works in other countries than the US?

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by stavros »

jaredcwhite wrote: post #14

I still pay for Fastmail, yet I route all messages over to HEY. There's just no replicating the UX (Fastmail's web UI is…suboptimal…and I'm thoroughly over using Apple Mail). And there are a ton of neat little touches throughout HEY beyond just the immediate filtering of incoming messages. It's simplistic to think you can just add a few rules on some other system and you're done. I seriously thought about quitting af…

What's wrong with Fastmail's UI? It's the fastest web app I've used (not just fastest mail app, fastest web app overall).

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by Ashanmaril »

Just this week I started looking into Gmail alternatives (as well as de-Googling myself as much as possible) and while I haven't pulled the trigger on anything yet, Fastmail is looking like the top contender at the moment.

Hey was on the table for a bit, but no matter how much I read about their alternative workflow, I just don't understand how it would be an improvement over my typical method of archiving emails as I get through them. My email is essentially just a to-do list. Once I've dealt with something, into the archive it goes, and I don't think about it again unless it shows up in a search result when I'm looking for something later.

I've just never had a problem with it so I don't see a need to reinvent the wheel and learn a new method of using email.

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by vishnugupta »

agambrahma wrote: post #18

Was looking for a Gmail alternative, several months ago, and had to pick between these two. I went with Fastmail and am very happy. Tons of aliases that are easy to use, the UX is actually _much better_ than Gmail.

Seconded about Fastmail. I use it to host mail on my own domain. I’m almost done migrating from Gmail to Fastmail.

I recently discovered their alias feature. It’s super useful for all those subscription things.

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by zzyzxd »

minton wrote: post #20
zzyzxd wrote: post #3

IMHO, services like Hey is for people who don't know how, or don't want to bother, to set proper inbox rules (it has many other features for sure but organizing emails is one of the biggest selling point as far as I see). But for me, I just want a reliable, dumb, boring email service without any "smart" features. I will decide what to do with every type of incoming emails myself. Fastmail gives me exactly that.

For me, Hey isn't just about filtering emails, although it does that well out of the box. It's the collaboration features and the small things like the Files page and Reply Later that I would miss if I went back to a traditional service like FastMail/Gmail/Proton/etc.

Isn't "Reply Later" just another folder/tag/label? And I personally just mark an email as unread if I need to take another look at it later for any reason.

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by alberth »

I don’t get Hey.

I feel like it does too much magic with my inbox.

Much like social media, I don’t want some algorithm to selectively decide what messages I see and what I don’t. I want to be able to see All messages, in a chronological order.

Having concert tickets not arrive in my inbox that I need because some magic is happening due to the sender being a first time sender to me is just frustrating.

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by AdamN »

Ashanmaril wrote: post #24

Just this week I started looking into Gmail alternatives (as well as de-Googling myself as much as possible) and while I haven't pulled the trigger on anything yet, Fastmail is looking like the top contender at the moment. Hey was on the table for a bit, but no matter how much I read about their alternative workflow, I just don't understand how it would be an improvement over my typical method of archiving emails as…

Yeah, gmail hit the nail on the head. No folders (originally), liberal use of archive, and you can still delete for true garbage.

Spam controls work really well too. I would like to de-google (already use ddg mostly), but tbh Google ain't that bad in the sense that although they have alot about me they don't seem to sell it as nakedly as FB.

Re: Moving from Hey to Fastmail

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Post by imwillofficial »

alberth wrote: post #27

I don’t get Hey. I feel like it does too much magic with my inbox. Much like social media, I don’t want some algorithm to selectively decide what messages I see and what I don’t. I want to be able to see All messages, in a chronological order. Having concert tickets not arrive in my inbox that I need because some magic is happening due to the sender being a first time sender to me is just frustrating.

I get what you’re feeling, but the magic is you. You decide where things route. After that it’s magic.

Unlike social media and opaque algos, you decide what goes to the feed, to the paper trail, who gets screened in and out, etc…

I’ve found it super useful, my email was a nightmare before.

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