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I'm even more convinced that me being a Fastmail customer is a good thing. Fastmail has been rock solid for years. Their email, calendar and contacts solutions

I'm even more convinced that me being a Fastmail customer is a good thing. Fastmail has been rock solid for years. Their email, calendar and contacts solutions work well with iOS and android (using the DAVx app). WebApps work flawlessly on Firefox. They have all sorts of customisation for spam filtering, catch all email addresses, etc. They don't do all the things (vpn, passwords, drive, what have you). But what they do, they do very well.

lloeki 2y ago
> android (using the DAVx app) It borderlines on the insulting that Google refuses to support CardDAV and CalDAV OOTB.
stavros 2y ago
I'll second this, I've had absolutely zero issues with Fastmail over many years. It always just works, and is super fast.
fhd2 2y ago
Absolutely, very happy Fastmail customer here! My only qualm is that their apps could be better at multi account (switching is too much of a hassle), but that's the only problem I ever had, and I work around it by using different mail/calendar clients. If you just have a single account with them though, their app is quite excellent and has everything (mail, calendar, notes), no need to get multiple apps and stuff like DAVx unless you want to.
- anotherhue 2y ago
  Fastmail Employees Form a Union (6 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656727 Fastmail lays off 60% of union bargaining committee in surprise restructure (9 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778214 It's a good product, no longer so sure about the company.
  - fhd2 2y ago
    Uh, that doesn't look nice, gonna keep an eye on that. This kind of stuff is usually a warning sign for approaching enshittification. Luckily I have a few alternatives in mind (like mailbox.org), albeit without neat apps.
  - qmmmur 2y ago
    Ugh...what? That's bad.
  - frenchman99 2y ago
    This reddit comment makes me thinks it reasonable. Who knows what's true though. https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1do3ede/comment/la9gfih/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1do3ede/comment/l...
amelius 2y ago
How do you deal with spam in Fastmail? I switched from GMail to Fastmail about a year ago, but ever since my Inbox is just filled with lots of spam. I tried writing email filters, and have about 50 now, but it is just not cutting it. And also those promotional mails that I don't want to mark as "spam" but still shouldn't end up in my Inbox ... they drive me nuts. Since I started using Fastmail, my main means of communication is shifting away from e-mail, which is sad.
- twojacobtwo 2y ago
  Why dont you use their masked/alternate addresses. That was one of the primary selling points for me. Any questionable site/service gets its own address and is easily removed or filtered if spam starts showing up.
  - lancesells 2y ago
    That only works with something you actually signed up for. When your email gets leaked in a database and sold a thousand times you just start getting spam for all types of things.
    - mikeiz404 2y ago
      My solution was to start over with a new "root" email address and then keep it private. Having unique email addresses for each service (which then forwards to the "root" email address) is a bit of a pain but it does work for spam and, depending on what else you share with the service, privacy as well. For better or worse if you want to reliably control who you receive email from you need to control who knows your email addresses and have the ability to disable/filter them.
      - genewitch 2y ago
        the same is true for SMS/call spam - my phone number is a single digit off from my wife's, she gets 6-10 total spam messages and calls a day, i get one a year. It's because she uses her cellphone number to sign up for fuel rewards and stuff, and they immediately sell it. I use my voip number to sign up for anything, and i have notifications shut off for SMS - and a phone tree for calls. Spam calls never get through a phone tree/IVR.
brianmiddleton 2y ago
I agree. I also like their explanation on why they don't offer PGP. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/
ndr 2y ago
I love the service but hate their android app. It fails to load any content when offline. Absolutely maddening when you need to look up anything, like gig tickets, in a low reception area.
- synthc 2y ago
  this, I like Fastmail, but their app being online-only is a shame
omneity 2y ago
(another happy paying customer of Fastmail here) I am pleasantly surprised that Fastmail has no AI cruft in it especially that Fastmail is founded by one of the godfathers of modern AI, Jeremy Howard.

lloeki 2y ago

> android (using the DAVx app) It borderlines on the insulting that Google refuses to support CardDAV and CalDAV OOTB.

stavros 2y ago

I'll second this, I've had absolutely zero issues with Fastmail over many years. It always just works, and is super fast.

fhd2 2y ago

Absolutely, very happy Fastmail customer here! My only qualm is that their apps could be better at multi account (switching is too much of a hassle), but that's the only problem I ever had, and I work around it by using different mail/calendar clients. If you just have a single account with them though, their app is quite excellent and has everything (mail, calendar, notes), no need to get multiple apps and stuff like DAVx unless you want to.

anotherhue 2y ago
Fastmail Employees Form a Union (6 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656727 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38656727 Fastmail lays off 60% of union bargaining committee in surprise restructure (9 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778214 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40778214 It's a good product, no longer so sure about the company.
- fhd2 2y ago
  Uh, that doesn't look nice, gonna keep an eye on that. This kind of stuff is usually a warning sign for approaching enshittification. Luckily I have a few alternatives in mind (like mailbox.org), albeit without neat apps.
- qmmmur 2y ago
  Ugh...what? That's bad.
- frenchman99 2y ago
  This reddit comment makes me thinks it reasonable. Who knows what's true though. https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1do3ede/comment/la9gfih/ https://www.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1do3ede/comment/l...

amelius 2y ago

How do you deal with spam in Fastmail? I switched from GMail to Fastmail about a year ago, but ever since my Inbox is just filled with lots of spam. I tried writing email filters, and have about 50 now, but it is just not cutting it. And also those promotional mails that I don't want to mark as "spam" but still shouldn't end up in my Inbox ... they drive me nuts. Since I started using Fastmail, my main means of communication is shifting away from e-mail, which is sad.

twojacobtwo 2y ago
Why dont you use their masked/alternate addresses. That was one of the primary selling points for me. Any questionable site/service gets its own address and is easily removed or filtered if spam starts showing up.
- lancesells 2y ago
  That only works with something you actually signed up for. When your email gets leaked in a database and sold a thousand times you just start getting spam for all types of things.
  - mikeiz404 2y ago
    My solution was to start over with a new "root" email address and then keep it private. Having unique email addresses for each service (which then forwards to the "root" email address) is a bit of a pain but it does work for spam and, depending on what else you share with the service, privacy as well. For better or worse if you want to reliably control who you receive email from you need to control who knows your email addresses and have the ability to disable/filter them.
    - genewitch 2y ago
      the same is true for SMS/call spam - my phone number is a single digit off from my wife's, she gets 6-10 total spam messages and calls a day, i get one a year. It's because she uses her cellphone number to sign up for fuel rewards and stuff, and they immediately sell it. I use my voip number to sign up for anything, and i have notifications shut off for SMS - and a phone tree for calls. Spam calls never get through a phone tree/IVR.

brianmiddleton 2y ago

I agree. I also like their explanation on why they don't offer PGP. https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/

ndr 2y ago

I love the service but hate their android app. It fails to load any content when offline. Absolutely maddening when you need to look up anything, like gig tickets, in a low reception area.

synthc 2y ago
this, I like Fastmail, but their app being online-only is a shame

omneity 2y ago

(another happy paying customer of Fastmail here) I am pleasantly surprised that Fastmail has no AI cruft in it especially that Fastmail is founded by one of the godfathers of modern AI, Jeremy Howard.