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Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by lorenzhs »

tomaskafka wrote: post #352
rasmusei wrote: post #11

+1 on almost everything you wrote. I also moved from Gmail to Fastmail in almost exactly the same way some months ago. I agree completely to the plusses and minuses you mention. I would like to add one minus though. Any good old smiley like ":)" in emails gets replaced by a yellow smiley face icon. I hate to see yellow smiley faces where someone wrote colon end parenthesis. It's all done client-side though, so noone…

> they seem to be uninterested in adding a checkbox to turn this nuisance off. Thanks. Filed FastMail under 'opinionated a *oles, won't budge.' No need be their customer. Also, their 'u'/'r' shortcuts don't work, and if this is their approach to fixing perceived problems ...

The shortcuts are .u and .r (note the dot). Hover over the "Mark" button to see it. Maybe they don't communicate the shortcuts in the best way but your post is overly inflammatory. This kind of language has no place on HN.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by unicornporn »

ionised wrote: post #49
unicornporn wrote: post #18

Lately I've been looking at some paid email options as I'm not happy with the offering over at Yahoo, Google, Microsoft or AOL. I wonder why they're all quite expensive. Fastmail is $40 a year, and that's for 15 GB. I would need at least 20 GB (which means I'm looking at $120 a year). 15 GB is free over at Google. Does that mean my data is really worth $40 a year to them. I do realize this is oversimplifying things..…

I'm using; 1) https://kolabnow.com/ (just the lite version for webmail) and 2) https://posteo.de/en both through Thunderbird and K9 clients. Perfectly happy with them.

Thanks, couldn't find info on storage space over at kolabnow. Posteo I've looked at before, it would cost me 6€ for 22GB, which is not too bad.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by lorenzhs »

size12font wrote: post #355

How good is the search in fastmail?

Very good. See https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/search.html for an overview of what it can do. It's also quite fast, I have a decade of email in my account (tens of thousands of messages) and a search through all of these messages takes only a second.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by summarite »

clinta wrote: post #360
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…

Just beware of trying to use this as your main google account. You will be waiting months or years for new features that become available to @gmail.com users.

I'm a Google apps 10-users-free legacy user from when it was free, what am I missing? I'm using inbox since the moment it came out, not sure what else there should be?

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by bad_user »

anoother wrote: post #353
bad_user wrote: post #124

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What problems does she have with the web interface? For example one thing I like in FastMail is that in the message list you can finger swipe an item to the left for Delete and to the right for Archive. In Gmail doing that is not accompanied by a drag, so it isn't intuitive and you can only Archive, but not Delete. I like my Inbox to be clean and I prefer to delete junk, no reason to pollute my archive with nonsense.…

One thing that _really_ annoys me about swipe-to-archive on gmail is that, if you do it accidentally, you can't swipe back to undo -- you have to actually tap 'undo'. My muscle memory just seems programmed to swipe back in the direction I came; and this seems much more intuitive. It's such an annoyance that I've now disabled the swipe functionality. Does Fastmail implement this better? Or maybe I'm just strange...

Hey, yes, in Fastmail it is properly implemented - it behaves just like the iOS email client, or others: you have to swipe all the way (either to the left for archive or to the right for delete), but if you swipe back, or if you simply release without going the whole way, it will just cancel the action. And you get the swipe animation, so it's intuitive. Which is not something you see often in mobile web interfaces :-)

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Post by Whitestrake »

Tempest1981 wrote: post #361
chrisper wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Google Drive you can just use insync. I used to use them before I went with my self hosted solution.

Any suggestions for Google Docs users?

Dropbox Paper looks pretty cool if you're looking for an alternative. Beta, though.

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by elcct »

wcunning wrote: post #105
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 once ate (bypassed spam and instantly deleted it, silently) an email filled with travel itinerary for an interview, causing me to miss the flight booked for me and the company I was interviewing with to have to book a second one (~$1k). If you find this hard to believe, go check your spam folder and see how many emails you have. Do you think you're really only getting ~1 spam message a day? This is the dark sid…

I keep receiving emails to other email addresses I don't own. Sometimes it contains sensitive information...

Re: Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail

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Post by nullcipher »

maccard wrote: post #208
StavrosK wrote: post #183

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If you have your own server (of any kind, even a Raspberry Pi), there's no excuse for not running your own CardDAV, at least (you can also run CalDAV), and it works beautifully: https://www.stavros.io/posts/private-contacts-and-calendars-... Radicale even commits every change to a git repo, if you want, so you can go back to your contacts history an arbitrary amount of time just by using `git log`!

I'm interested in keeping my data private, and willing to pay for it, I'm just not interested in maintaining a server, and dealing with 1) keeping it up, and 2) keeping it secure. I'd just rather pay someone a small monthly/annual fee to do it for me, along with keeping my data private.

Try https://cloudron.io. They have SOGo and ownCloud which have pretty decent UIs for contacts. Rainloop for mail.
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