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Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by malyk »

brightball wrote: post #276
olalonde wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or if you can't pay the 5$/month, you can get a free Zoho mail account with custom domain and connect Gmail to it.

Holy crap... So I read your comment and strolled on over to Zoho, who I'd never heard of before. They have a lot of products...just wow. That's a lot of stuff. It's just such a jumble. I find myself wanting to know more about what they have to offer but yet completely overwhelmed by everything that's there. Can anybody speak to the quality of these products? How well do they interact? Is Creator any good? It looks li…

Just a heads up. I hate badmouthing companies, but... I wanted to use them instead of Google but my standard .com domain kept error int out in there interface and multiple support emails and posts in their support forum went unanswered so I bailed back to Google.

I wanted to like them, but their signup and support experience was terrible. Their other products seemed to work well, but they've lost me as a customer.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by ayu »

reacharavindh wrote: post #123

Curious what y'all think of Protonmail? I've been using their service partially (just within family and a few friends). They lack two big (features/caveats?) as of now. (1) searching for a text within the body of the email is not available (They can't read my email kinda thing.) and (2) Inline images don't work - pretty bad flaw. I do like : (1) Simple and Fast UI for web app, and iOS App. (2) Knowing that I'm suppor…

I use Protonmail and I like it.

Their web client is open source and MIT licensed. For more security it might be worth running it locally:

https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by dboreham »

ynak wrote: post #50

FastMail is great and their web interface is really light and fast, but the pricing[0] doesn't fit me. I want to use my custom domain as an email address, so I have to choose the `Enhanced` plan ($40 USD per 1 year). That also provides 100 domains and 500 domain aliases, it is a bit overwhelming for personal use. I hope they would make a new middle-class plan between `Full` and `Enhanced` with Cal/Card DAV features.…

And...this is why nobody can make any money providing decent services on the Internet, and as a result we're all subject to a constant onslaught of intrusive and scammy advertising. And those of us who might have been creating useful services are instead spending our time building ever more bogus advertising platforms...

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by dboreham »

unicornporn wrote: post #231
brightball wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Depending on what your threshold for needs is, Rackspace Email is a pretty solid solution for about $2 / user / month. Been pretty happy with them for my needs. YMMV of course.

But if I remember things correctly they don't sell to a single user..?

Try calling them and ask for a single user account.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by syntheticnature »

doh wrote: post #218
exhilaration wrote: post #71

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It's interesting that this is the top comment, I'm assuming it's because Gmail users like myself just don't see spam anymore - Google's spam filters are so good that I don't even think about it anymore.

Gmail's anti-spam filters have the opposite problem, putting a ton of legit emails into the spam folder. The other day I had to sign a NDA from Google and it ended up in the spam folder. We were on the phone for over 20 minutes just waiting for the NDA to come, until I decided to check the spam folder and sure enough, there it was. The spam filter is in my opinion too dumb for this age. Once you mark one email from o…

I, too, have run into this. One email setup was moved to Google Apps, and it flagged JIRA email as spam. Once that was fixed, I figured I was good, but more recently it flagged a document share request... from Google Docs... originating from within the same organization (i.e. same Google Apps account). Left hand, meet right hand.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by 00098345 »

brightball wrote: post #276
olalonde wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or if you can't pay the 5$/month, you can get a free Zoho mail account with custom domain and connect Gmail to it.

Holy crap... So I read your comment and strolled on over to Zoho, who I'd never heard of before. They have a lot of products...just wow. That's a lot of stuff. It's just such a jumble. I find myself wanting to know more about what they have to offer but yet completely overwhelmed by everything that's there. Can anybody speak to the quality of these products? How well do they interact? Is Creator any good? It looks li…

The founder, Sridhar, is on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu

Very talented and humble guy.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by ScroogeMcDoug »

bad_user wrote: post #42
readhn wrote: post #14

"The Five Eyes, often abbreviated as FVEY, are an intelligence alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence." Austrlia is spying on your email on Fastmail the same way NSA is reading your gmail.

This is an often repeated fallacy, but Australia doesn't have the equivalent of the National Security Letter, by which they can coerce any company to do what they want without the right to disclose such breaches. The NSA is also the worst adversary you can get. I doubt Australia's agencies are as competent or as well financed. Also, no security agency is above the law, but the problem with the NSA is that the US law…

FastMail's servers are in the US.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by mintplant »

ynak wrote: post #50

FastMail is great and their web interface is really light and fast, but the pricing[0] doesn't fit me. I want to use my custom domain as an email address, so I have to choose the `Enhanced` plan ($40 USD per 1 year). That also provides 100 domains and 500 domain aliases, it is a bit overwhelming for personal use. I hope they would make a new middle-class plan between `Full` and `Enhanced` with Cal/Card DAV features.…

> $40 USD per 1 year

Curious, do you think you would have perceived the price differently if it had been presented as $3/mo?

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by Dobbs »

vocatus_gate wrote: post #219
Accacin wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had huge problems with spam on Fastmail, enough that after my year ended I moved to another provide. I really liked Fastmail, and the service was pretty good (although when I asked them why my domain was getting put into spam filters they couldn't really help much). Now I'm with Mailbox.org, and they're really good. A little cheaper too.

Serious question - why would you pay for email when there's plenty of good free providers? (Gmail, Yahoo, etc)

Not OP but a fellow fastmail user.

Now a days there aren't actually good free providers. Google charges a yearly fee if you want to use a custom domain.

This wasn't true when I originally switched to fastmail. Back then google still had a free personal google apps account which supported custom domains. I pay fastmail because I know what the deal is. I pay them $50 a year and they host my email with my domains. There is no question about what trade we are making. In addition I'm getting to pay a very small amount and support fellow developers building a good product.

The old saying is that with google you are the product. Your information is being parsed, stored, tracked, and used to advertise to you. I'm happy to pay a bit of money and not be the product. I don't do this everywhere but there are more then a few places it is true. I also despise ads and will pay money to opt out of them almost everywhere. YoutubeRed, iOS games, etc.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by curiousgal »

olalonde wrote: post #263
kennell wrote: post #251

The most important step for folks that wish to break free for Google: start using a custom domain name as soon as possible. Because the hard part is not moving from one email service provider to another, but getting your new email address in everybody's address books and changing all your site logins. And if you love your Gmail interface and all the goodies that come with it, thats fine. Get a 1 user Google Apps acco…

Or if you can't pay the 5$/month, you can get a free Zoho mail account with custom domain and connect Gmail to it.

Too bad they only support SSL ports 110 and 995 when setting up POP3, my registrar uses 465.
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