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If you just want the custom domain, Fastmail is fantastic. Rock stable, fast, 2FA, modern UI (as good as Gmail, but fewer annoyances), great IMAP, very flexible

If you just want the custom domain, Fastmail is fantastic. Rock stable, fast, 2FA, modern UI (as good as Gmail, but fewer annoyances), great IMAP, very flexible in terms of domains and rules (uses Sieve), reasonably priced.

willempienaar 10y ago
I will second this. Moving to Fastmail from Gmail was a massive improvement for me. Being able to quickly hook up custom domains to the same inbox is a big boon. Plus it costs less.
- dvcrn 10y ago
  I third this. I recently migrated all my domains to fastmail (left my legacy gapps account as is, just in case) and am super happy with it. I am using a regular google account on the side for all the googley things I need but haven't opened gmail ever since. The only thing I miss are labels. Once you get used to how to use them, it's hard to go back. I migrated my mailing rules to use folders but that forces me to check every folder for a new mail and don't have it aggregated in my normal inbox.
  - zuccs 10y ago
    I fourth this. I am a super heavy email user and live on Fastmail every day. I'd just love a boomerang/snooze feature. And agree on labels, however, it's just due to them following their own open source standards and with IMAP/JMAP emails can only live in one place at a time.
Whitestrake 10y ago
I'm soft trialling Fastmail at the moment (forwarding all email from Gapps directly to Fastmail). I will probably change over my MX records soon to make it official. One thing I don't like is that their Android client which supports push notifications (a feature I personally valued in Gmail) also has some weird UX. For example, the message actions bar within the "view message" pane. At first, I wasn't aware it existed. I thought you had to archive/delete messages from the inbox by swiping it! I only discovered it by accident when my finger missed a link in an email. It seems like it appears when you tap somewhere in the message itself, and it appears over the top of the bar that holds the message title and the back arrow. Very silly in that regard, but otherwise quite solid. Their servers, service, and desktop offering are great and I found their pricing quite reasonable.
- bad_user 10y ago
  Their Android client isn't as great as the native Gmail app, however it's basically a wrapped web interface. And for a web interface, it's great, because it's usable and it means you can have it on any device you want just by going to "fastmail.com". And btw, on iOS/iPhone Fastmail does push notifications using the native email client: https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-available-in-ios-mail/ https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-availabl...
- zuccs 10y ago
  Try the Aqua Mail Android app instead. Slightly nicer UI.
nagarjun 10y ago
How does it compare to Outlook.com?

willempienaar 10y ago

I will second this. Moving to Fastmail from Gmail was a massive improvement for me. Being able to quickly hook up custom domains to the same inbox is a big boon. Plus it costs less.

dvcrn 10y ago
I third this. I recently migrated all my domains to fastmail (left my legacy gapps account as is, just in case) and am super happy with it. I am using a regular google account on the side for all the googley things I need but haven't opened gmail ever since. The only thing I miss are labels. Once you get used to how to use them, it's hard to go back. I migrated my mailing rules to use folders but that forces me to check every folder for a new mail and don't have it aggregated in my normal inbox.
- zuccs 10y ago
  I fourth this. I am a super heavy email user and live on Fastmail every day. I'd just love a boomerang/snooze feature. And agree on labels, however, it's just due to them following their own open source standards and with IMAP/JMAP emails can only live in one place at a time.

Whitestrake 10y ago

I'm soft trialling Fastmail at the moment (forwarding all email from Gapps directly to Fastmail). I will probably change over my MX records soon to make it official. One thing I don't like is that their Android client which supports push notifications (a feature I personally valued in Gmail) also has some weird UX. For example, the message actions bar within the "view message" pane. At first, I wasn't aware it existed. I thought you had to archive/delete messages from the inbox by swiping it! I only discovered it by accident when my finger missed a link in an email. It seems like it appears when you tap somewhere in the message itself, and it appears over the top of the bar that holds the message title and the back arrow. Very silly in that regard, but otherwise quite solid. Their servers, service, and desktop offering are great and I found their pricing quite reasonable.

bad_user 10y ago
Their Android client isn't as great as the native Gmail app, however it's basically a wrapped web interface. And for a web interface, it's great, because it's usable and it means you can have it on any device you want just by going to "fastmail.com". And btw, on iOS/iPhone Fastmail does push notifications using the native email client: https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-available-in-ios-mail/ https://blog.fastmail.com/2015/07/17/push-email-now-availabl...
zuccs 10y ago
Try the Aqua Mail Android app instead. Slightly nicer UI.

nagarjun 10y ago

How does it compare to Outlook.com?