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I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to
by rendleflag 1y ago
I’ve been a Fastmail user for years, having left Gmail. It works great and have nothing be but praise for them. I use my own domain with them so if I decide to leave it’s not an issue worrying about updating people with my new email.
- palata 1y agoI was really happy with Fastmail as well. Before that I used ProtonMail, which was annoying because it forced me to install their bridge and use their encryption stuff. After Fastmail I went to Migadu, and it's absolutely great. I have never seen support requests getting answers that quickly :-).
- tamimio 1y agoI don’t see masked email feature in Migadu, is there one? Useful for burner services
- kenmacd 1y agoI use identities for this: https://migadu.com/guides/identities/ https://migadu.com/guides/identities/ I can send as the address, and emails arrive in my normal mailbox. I also use them for giving self-hosted services their own address/password to email me.
- litmus-pit-git 1y agoHow's migadu's email ip reputation? Also do you have to create these identities in that admin panel to use or you can use it on the go like duck.com or Apple's hide my email?
- kenmacd 1y agoNot sure on the reputation, but I personally haven't had any issues emailing people using gmail or microsoft. They have a good DNS Diagnostics page that checks all your domains DKIM/SPF/DMARC settings. I've been using identities created in the admin panel, but they do have subdomain addresses where everything to *@user.domain goes to user@domain, and you can configure a 'Catchall' address (and of course 'plus addresses'). I haven't used either though.
- ternaryoperator 1y agoLike you, I am a happy long-term user of Fastmail. In addition to the excellent mail and calendar service, their tech support is top-notch: fast and generally providing the correct answer in their first communication.
- jesterson 1y agoHow dod you that? I am paying them thousands per year and support is neither good nor fast. And my requests are usually well written as we deal with emails a lot and understand how it works (if you pardon my slight bragging)
- ternaryoperator 1y agoI'm surprised to read this. We just email support@[the expected domain name]. Perhaps our queries are simple enough they can be handled easily.
- jesterson 1y agoProbably so. My volume is around 750k email per day roughly. Recently they started tinkering with spam filter, which worked fairly well before. Now it doesnt work - good mails go to spam, spam garbage goes inbox. Support tried - I'll give them that - but almost all their advises were either not working or working just partially. My guess is they integrating "AI" with spam filter, hence the quality decline. I use just use help-> Open ticket and getting one response per day (this is to address timely responses). Granted I am in UTC+7, but from company as big as FastMail you would expect support around the clock.
- onlyhumans 1y agoFastmail is kind of a weird service. If you stop paying they release your email for someone else to take over. Pretty unacceptable this day and age.
- echelon 1y agoThat is 100% unacceptable.
- NomDePlum 1y agoHow's that different from any other provider?
- Sayrus 1y agoMost prevent your username/email from being reused but restrict access or storage. From what I've seen, the delay often ranges from 30 days to years (but not guaranteed).
- winrid 1y agoAt the very least it's weird when you consider their privacy focused marketing and the fact that it costs them like nothing to delete the data but mark that email taken.
- lemoncucumber 1y agoAny provider with a free tier doesn’t have the issue so that covers a lot of them
- litmus-pit-git 1y agoThis way - many different providers either lock that username away and throw the key (even you can't get it again; some give you the key instead of throwing away but no space in their home until you pay again) and some just graciously offer a free plan with that address whith little or barely any resources (which is actually great and very generious of them). Which ones? Google around and you shall find.
- jeffparsons 1y ago
- tamimio 1y agoI am a person who doesn't have any brand loyalty. If there's something else that's better or has the same features at the same cost, I will go for it. That being said, Fastmail has been great. Besides the unlimited domains and masked email features, I never had an issue with my emails ending up in someone else's spam folder. This is crucial to me not to lose a client or a job, or even government communications. Some might argue about security/privacy, but emails are never meant to be that medium for secure communications. Even with PGP you would still leak metadata, so if you are after security, don't use email. Other than that, I will be after reliability and ease of use features.
- upofadown 1y agoIn particular, encrypted email provides privacy but not anonymity. You need some sort of onion routing system for that. Back in the day people would set up such routing systems for email. It turns out that most people don't really need anonymity. That is why most systems these days don't bother the user with all the associated hassle. Briar and Session come to mind as contemporary examples of such things.
- bsder 1y agoIs there a way to use Fastmail such that you run a receive email server but use Fastmail to send? I don't mind running an email server for receive. I despise all the hoops you have to jump through for send deliverability.
- josephb 1y agoIf you plan on running your own inbound email, you would be better using something like smtp2go, dnsexit or others for your outbound.
- HumanOstrich 1y agoI'm in the process of switching from Gmail to FastMail. They were the only ones who met one of my requirements: Receive all email for all my domains and deliver it to one inbox with labels. I really like that they offer a Gmail migration, including an initial import and _ongoing Inbox sync_. It only syncs the Inbox though, not spam (which is sometimes legit, especially with Gmail) or mail that gets immediately archived by a rule. I created an alternate domain so I could try them out and perform the switch after a significant evaluation period. Since they have advanced options for figuring out which address to reply to an email with and how, it works seamlessly with gmail and with the catch-all for domains. I could go on and on. The only thing I miss from Gmail is custom notification sounds. I don't like my email notifications having the default OS sound. Oh and you can't migrate stars/icons for emails. I wish I could do that and convert them to labels, but not a big deal.
- nine_k 1y ago> can't migrate stars/icons for emails. (1) Create s label for starred emails, eg "Star-struck". A Unicode star would do if you like it literal. (2) In gmail, search for "is:starred", mark all on the page, then "mark all matching emails". (3) Drop the "Star-struck" tag on them. Now you can migrate it as a normal tag.
- HumanOstrich 1y agoThanks, but I am using multiple variants of the star icons to indicate various states. I know I can manually label and migrate things, it's just not practical for me.
- nine_k 1y agoDoes "has:red-star" work for you? Works for me, even in the Android version that can't display starts of different colors.
- doctorpangloss 1y agoThat’s the thing, you never left Gmail, since most recipients use it. You have to play by Google’s rules for deliverability across all mail providers. It cannot be “left.”
- josephb 1y agoLove the keyboard shortcuts in the web interface, killer feature. Also the rules management and folder management is beyond what a lot of other similar providers offer.