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Congrats to everyone! Thanks for keeping pay for email alive. If you're not the one paying, you're the product!

nikolay 11y ago
I do pay for my personal account to FastMail, but I still predominantly use Gmail. In fact, I pay for FastMail just to keep the address. For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me and for that I use Mail-in-a-Box [0], which I still pay for, but much less if I have to use the business tiers of FastMail, which still don't give me as much flexibility. [0] https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/
- mrmondo 11y ago
  I love the idea of mailinabox but I don't think it's particularly written / held together. Also I don't like the idea of PHP running on my mail server...
  - nikolay 11y ago
    Well, true, but still has less stuff than Sovereign [0] and that's why I like it better. But I agree that they should probably split it into two (or more!) containers. [0] https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
- citruspi 11y ago
  > For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me I'm curious what's making it expensive. For what it's worth, I'm on the Enhanced $40/year plan and I use it for personal email as well as side projects. I just setup a new virtual domain, a new profile, and a rule to move all mail addressed to that domain to a folder for that project.
  - rbritton 11y ago
    Does that approach work well for you? I had been considering it, but I couldn't find anything concrete saying that would work. I never did put the time into doing the trial to find out.
    - ics 11y ago
      I do this and it works fine though there are some limits to be aware of (see "Quotas for other services" https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html).
  - nikolay 11y ago
    I have the same FastMail plan, but I want to create mailboxes for different users. In this case, FastMail is definitely cost-prohibitive for me.
r_klancer 11y ago
Hey John! I agree. My email address's been the same since 1996 thanks to pobox. I remember a pobox faq back then to the effect of "how do I know you'll still be around?" IIRC it asked, rhetorically, how do you know your bank will still be around? Well guess what? New Brunswick Savings Bank got swallowed up by bigger and bigger players since then. But pobox has stayed the same. It's been so reliably the same I haven't even bothered to get a vanity domain. I did once use FastMail too but their circa-2007 web interface was too clunky and I dropped them for that one that reads your emails...

I do pay for my personal account to FastMail, but I still predominantly use Gmail. In fact, I pay for FastMail just to keep the address. For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me and for that I use Mail-in-a-Box [0], which I still pay for, but much less if I have to use the business tiers of FastMail, which still don't give me as much flexibility. [0] https://mailinabox.email/ https://mailinabox.email/

mrmondo 11y ago
I love the idea of mailinabox but I don't think it's particularly written / held together. Also I don't like the idea of PHP running on my mail server...
- nikolay 11y ago
  Well, true, but still has less stuff than Sovereign [0] and that's why I like it better. But I agree that they should probably split it into two (or more!) containers. [0] https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
citruspi 11y ago
> For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me I'm curious what's making it expensive. For what it's worth, I'm on the Enhanced $40/year plan and I use it for personal email as well as side projects. I just setup a new virtual domain, a new profile, and a rule to move all mail addressed to that domain to a folder for that project.
- rbritton 11y ago
  Does that approach work well for you? I had been considering it, but I couldn't find anything concrete saying that would work. I never did put the time into doing the trial to find out.
  - ics 11y ago
    I do this and it works fine though there are some limits to be aware of (see "Quotas for other services" https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html).
- nikolay 11y ago
  I have the same FastMail plan, but I want to create mailboxes for different users. In this case, FastMail is definitely cost-prohibitive for me.

r_klancer 11y ago

Hey John! I agree. My email address's been the same since 1996 thanks to pobox. I remember a pobox faq back then to the effect of "how do I know you'll still be around?" IIRC it asked, rhetorically, how do you know your bank will still be around? Well guess what? New Brunswick Savings Bank got swallowed up by bigger and bigger players since then. But pobox has stayed the same. It's been so reliably the same I haven't even bothered to get a vanity domain. I did once use FastMail too but their circa-2007 web interface was too clunky and I dropped them for that one that reads your emails...