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Not yet ready for a switch? There is still a simple, clean, basic Gmail https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ For more light weighted https://mail.google.com/mail/x/
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Sometimes not banging your head on the keyboard each day is worth $10/year.
Sure, but comparing a paid service to a free service and expecting the free service to be as good as a paid service is silly.
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Spotless. I've gotten maybe one false negative (i.e., the spam hit my inbox) and no false positives.
I have a very different experience. I've had my fastmail account for ~5 years and get 20 new pieces of spam in my inbox daily, while on my gmail account, that I've used for ~10 years, I only get 1 spam per month on average. Fastmail's spam filtering is atrocious in my experience.
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You can always forward your mail through GMail. Publicly, your address is r0s@gmail.com, but that account forwards to another address. Boom, spam filtering. You can even give out your "private" address to trusted parties, and skip the middleman.
This negates the privacy benefits of not using gmail, no?
It takes 6 seconds for you to load Gmail? Where do you live? I feel sorry for you bro.
That said, I recently found out about the /h/ option in this thread and it loads instantaneously--faster than FastMail.
Not yet ready for a switch? There is still a simple, clean, basic Gmail https://mail.google.com/mail/h/ For more light weighted https://mail.google.com/mail/x/
slightly off topic but I'm looking to move away from Thunderbird as a mail client. I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. I use gmail but not online but without updates to tbird, thats becoming the bottleneck
kmail for KDE seems OK. It's not my favorite, but it feels lighter to me.
Considering using Emacs.
Having made the switch to Fastmail a while ago, I agree with the comments - mostly. While Fastmail is fantastic, it lacks the implementation polish of Gmail. Two-factor authentication is there, but not via a popup like on gmail. You have to enter it in the web-form. This is a hassle, because I use LastPass and it's a bit fiddly. Further, under Fastmail you create new logins in addition to the master account password.…
http://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?t=68642
There are many such complaints in the forums. For nearly the same price Google gives phone support.
I closed my account without having a "full featured" alternative ready. Instead, I used the the mailbox feature provided by my domain registrar[1]. I initially set out to only use this as a temporary arrangement, but the quality of service has been so excellent that I've had no reason to move from it.
Keep in mind, because of this move, I'm no longer a "typical" email user. At least, not what has become typical of email. I use it purely as a personal communication tool. Not as an information archive, password manager, file storage or any other (mis)use of the thing that has seemed to become standard these days.
I access it through a desktop client via IMAP, but they also provide webmail access via an instance of the GPL licensed Roundcude[2], which I use extremely rarely.