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Fastmail Labels Beta

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Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

#31
>Add colors to your Labels ...

>Switching back to Folders mode: ... Your labels will be converted into Folders.

Upon converting back to Folder mode, what happens to our painstakingly entered per-label color assignments?

As a Fastmail user, this worries me, as on its face suggesting a destructive bulk state change to all metadata of the account.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

#32

Might as well put it here since Fastmail doesn’t come up often. Does anyone find Fastmail’s spam detection to be pretty mediocre? I usually get a few obviously spam emails a week in my inbox. The volume is low so I don’t mind it but that’s really the one thing I miss from Gmail.

The problem I frequently encounter is with emails incorrectly classified as spam. Once a month I go to spam folder and find few emails that were not spam. Even though I click "not spam" on each, I don't feel algorithm is getting any better with time.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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post #29

If you have a spouse and/or kids, and you want them to use FastMail for the same reason you do, consider putting pressure on FastMail to offer a (reasonable) family plan. I’ve been a happy customer for a decade but they’ve raised their prices (which would affect new accounts) and do not offer a family plan so this year be my last year with them. Edit: typo

If anyone from fast mail reads this, I would like to agree to this too.

I would love a family plan that would let me put my parents on my domain, however I cannot justify current fast mail pricing for the several emails each week

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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post #29

If you have a spouse and/or kids, and you want them to use FastMail for the same reason you do, consider putting pressure on FastMail to offer a (reasonable) family plan. I’ve been a happy customer for a decade but they’ve raised their prices (which would affect new accounts) and do not offer a family plan so this year be my last year with them. Edit: typo

ditto. this is a winning strategy for FM, and with three kids it would be a no-brainer to me. As it is, though, you have only one customer.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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post #29

If you have a spouse and/or kids, and you want them to use FastMail for the same reason you do, consider putting pressure on FastMail to offer a (reasonable) family plan. I’ve been a happy customer for a decade but they’ve raised their prices (which would affect new accounts) and do not offer a family plan so this year be my last year with them. Edit: typo

I’m in the same boat. I would happily migrate my wife, kid, parents, and possibly even my siblings over if it was more affordable to do so. They don’t see the value in not being in the Google ecosystem, so they aren’t willing to pay themselves, which is understandable. I would be happy to pay for them, but at $50/year per user that adds up too fast unfortunately.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

#36

Might as well put it here since Fastmail doesn’t come up often. Does anyone find Fastmail’s spam detection to be pretty mediocre? I usually get a few obviously spam emails a week in my inbox. The volume is low so I don’t mind it but that’s really the one thing I miss from Gmail.

My spam folder seems to catch a fair bit across my hundreds of aliases so far

Is that not the idea more than relying on the spam filter. Just delete aliases?

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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post #29

If you have a spouse and/or kids, and you want them to use FastMail for the same reason you do, consider putting pressure on FastMail to offer a (reasonable) family plan. I’ve been a happy customer for a decade but they’ve raised their prices (which would affect new accounts) and do not offer a family plan so this year be my last year with them. Edit: typo

I have migrated 4 people from my family to Fastmail. It was a xmas present. We did the setup together on Christmas Eve and exchanges some mails. Emails sent after that day equal 0. I guess will be ending the contract too. No worth 200 USD / year for 0 mails sent.

That said would support a family plan too. For me it’s important that they are not sitting on a free gmail account.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

#38
post #29

If you have a spouse and/or kids, and you want them to use FastMail for the same reason you do, consider putting pressure on FastMail to offer a (reasonable) family plan. I’ve been a happy customer for a decade but they’ve raised their prices (which would affect new accounts) and do not offer a family plan so this year be my last year with them. Edit: typo

Same for us. Family of four, I have a basic account.

I'd happily switch to a standard plan if it enabled access to a family feature.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

#40

Might as well put it here since Fastmail doesn’t come up often. Does anyone find Fastmail’s spam detection to be pretty mediocre? I usually get a few obviously spam emails a week in my inbox. The volume is low so I don’t mind it but that’s really the one thing I miss from Gmail.

Spam detection requires a few ingredients:

1. Lots of email that you can categorize.

2. Lots of users to label the email as spam or not spam.

3. Tons of code to identify classifiable features such as clickable links, the ASN from which the message originated, and so many other things.

4. Some kind of classifier that pulls all the above into a decision about each message. And make sure it’s really fast and doesn’t require gargantuan resources either, because you’re trying to provide cheap mailboxes.

Google has enormous advantages in solving for spam filtering. It has over a billion active users, enormous computing resources, and top AI talent. Not to mention legions of talented general programmers to build all the feature extraction stuff. Competing with Google on spam filtering is an unwinnable game IMHO.

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