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Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by DarwinMailApp »

This is quite a leap forward in organising emails. I believe emails need to be organised into concise groups in order for you to become your most productive.

One thing I would suggest is to allow the organisation of labels according to when the last email was received. Today, Yesterday, This week, Last week, This month, Last month etc.

I actually run a similar product called DarwinMail [1], which was built shortly after GoogleInbox announced it would shut down in 2018.

We have supported bundles (labels in Fastmail) for about 12 months now. Through consistent iterative updates (thanks to feedback from our users) we have made huge progress.

Apart from the core (built-in) bundles: travel, finance, purchases, forums, promotions, social, updates you can also create a bundle from any label you wish.

[1] https://www.darwinmail.app

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by codegladiator »

erdaniels wrote: post #19

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.

I regularly receive spam in gmail (russian and gmail originated spam) in main inbox.

And promotions box is usually just spam.

Also lately started getting spam google calendar events and they just wont go away even after reporting them as spam multiple times. I don't why is that even a feature, why can someone completely random add recurring-daily events to your calendar.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by dimastopel »

nnutter wrote: 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 here. Family of four + some members of the extended family. I am doing IT for all and would be happy to move everybody to fastmail under the same custom domain.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by [deleted] »

everybodyknows wrote: post #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.

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Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by katsura »

marc wrote: post #2

Curious to hear how people use these!

I kind of use them like folders, but one main difference is that I can keep important emails in my "Inbox", while they can still show the label. With folders, they basically become archived right away, so there were emails that I was hesitant to assign a folder to, because it'd mean that they'd disappear from my view.

Basically the "Inbox" is my TODO list in a sense. And with labels I can keep better track of what is necessary for the emails/todos to become archived.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by pointillistic »

ccmcarey wrote: post #14

It wasn't super obvious to me, but you have to use beta.fastmail.com for this to work. Confused me for a moment as you can complete the first step of enabling this (changing to New Rules) using the stable client. --- Oh, no, it's even more confusing than that. You enable the labels beta function on the beta website, but then it applies even on the main website.

you are right, does this mean that labels will work on the main site?

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by acabal »

sudhirkhanger wrote: post #46

Is there a standards for labels in IMAP protocol? Or this another Gmail like proprietary protocol? Does this sync all emails multiple times if they have multiple labels in a regular email client?

IMAP keywords are basically labels. IIRC they even have Thunderbird integration. You can "tag" messages in TB with a variety of hard-coded tags (like "Work" or "Todo") and they will be saved as IMAP keywords on the server.

The problem is that it's hard to create custom ones in Thunderbird. It involves editing about:config, and when custom ones are saved to the server, other instances of TB won't recognize them unless you edit the about:config of those instances too. Basically, it's possible but too much pain in the TB UI to be useful.

Re: Fastmail Labels Beta

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Post by lars_francke »

It's not quite clear to me: Can these rules be applied to already existing mails at creation time?

This is convenient in Gmail and when I last looked at fastmail in 2014 this wasn't possible.

This was the support answer: "I am sorry, but our filters only work at email delivery time. You can't really use them on emails already delivered to your account.

However, to work on already delivered emails, I would suggest you use our 'Search' feature. You can search for emails matching specific criteria, and then select them and move them en masse to a different folder, or even delete them."

This works but makes migration/reorganizing a bit annoying

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