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I'm using Fastmail instead of Gmail. Smartphone app is not really good but you can use any other smtp/imap client. For android you can synchronize your contacts

I'm using Fastmail instead of Gmail. Smartphone app is not really good but you can use any other smtp/imap client. For android you can synchronize your contacts with "CardDAV-Sync" (carddav is native for iOS). Fastmail offer contacts and calendars too. Which have a really nice web interface. I'm still looking for a Drive/Photos alternative. Any advice?

PaulHoule 10y ago
Fastmail is great.
dhruvkar 10y ago
No, although I'm considering setting up owncloud (https://owncloud.org https://owncloud.org) to at least back up my Drive/Photos. Resiliency/availability could be issues though. Ever looked into that?
benhardy 10y ago
+1 on Fastmail. Been using it for past 6 months with my own personal domains. Actually now like the UI better than Gmail. Such slick, very slide, wow. Really liking the customizable options for wildcard addresses in particular. You wanna give out an email address for each place you sign up? You can write it as me@site.example.com or me+site@example.com or site@me.example.com - which I find super handy because to my endless annoyance, most sites STILL don't deal with "+" in an email address. Well worth the money IMO.
jstayton 10y ago
> I'm still looking for a Drive/Photos alternative. Any advice? I haven't found any photo storage services that really sell the privacy-conscious angle. That said, I'd trust https://www.smugmug.com/ https://www.smugmug.com/ more than Google, Facebook, or anyone else. For a vanilla, non-photo-specific storage service, there's https://spideroak.com/solutions/spideroak-one https://spideroak.com/solutions/spideroak-one.
- dublinben 10y ago
  You should try hosting your own photos with GNU Mediagoblin.
  - jstayton 10y ago
    Looks good as a self-hosted option.
talles 10y ago
Here's their pricing by the way: https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/pricing.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/pricing.html
corford 10y ago
Another +1 for Fastmail. Their IMAP migration tool worked flawlessly shifting multi GBs of emails when I made the switch last month (admittedly not from gmail but from a self-hosted Zarafa install). Re: Drive/Photos alternative. For the Drive part, if you just need something in the cloud to backup files to (and optionally share them with other people) I highly recommend https://www.spideroak.com https://www.spideroak.com. Have been using them for years without issue and they're the only "cloud backup" provider I know of that takes security and privacy seriously.

PaulHoule 10y ago

Fastmail is great.

dhruvkar 10y ago

No, although I'm considering setting up owncloud (https://owncloud.org https://owncloud.org) to at least back up my Drive/Photos. Resiliency/availability could be issues though. Ever looked into that?

benhardy 10y ago

+1 on Fastmail. Been using it for past 6 months with my own personal domains. Actually now like the UI better than Gmail. Such slick, very slide, wow. Really liking the customizable options for wildcard addresses in particular. You wanna give out an email address for each place you sign up? You can write it as me@site.example.com or me+site@example.com or site@me.example.com - which I find super handy because to my endless annoyance, most sites STILL don't deal with "+" in an email address. Well worth the money IMO.

jstayton 10y ago

> I'm still looking for a Drive/Photos alternative. Any advice? I haven't found any photo storage services that really sell the privacy-conscious angle. That said, I'd trust https://www.smugmug.com/ https://www.smugmug.com/ more than Google, Facebook, or anyone else. For a vanilla, non-photo-specific storage service, there's https://spideroak.com/solutions/spideroak-one https://spideroak.com/solutions/spideroak-one.

dublinben 10y ago
You should try hosting your own photos with GNU Mediagoblin.
- jstayton 10y ago
  Looks good as a self-hosted option.

talles 10y ago

Here's their pricing by the way: https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/pricing.html https://www.fastmail.com/help/ourservice/pricing.html

corford 10y ago

Another +1 for Fastmail. Their IMAP migration tool worked flawlessly shifting multi GBs of emails when I made the switch last month (admittedly not from gmail but from a self-hosted Zarafa install). Re: Drive/Photos alternative. For the Drive part, if you just need something in the cloud to backup files to (and optionally share them with other people) I highly recommend https://www.spideroak.com https://www.spideroak.com. Have been using them for years without issue and they're the only "cloud backup" provider I know of that takes security and privacy seriously.