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How do you plan to change emails? I'm thinking of moving out of Gmail too but didn't decide on a service yet. Office 365 with Exchange sounds good but it's like
by dsrajapaksha 9y ago
How do you plan to change emails? I'm thinking of moving out of Gmail too but didn't decide on a service yet. Office 365 with Exchange sounds good but it's like moving from one monopoly to another I guess.
- ne01 9y agoHow about fastmail.com?
- corobo 9y agoBe prepared for a long transition period while their spam filter warms up. Couldn’t handle it myself, I’m back with gmail.
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- kaosjester 9y agoCould you explain what this means?
- x0x0 9y agoI assume gp is referencing the necessity of training the spam filter. I didn't have big problems with it, except for a monthly student loan payment confirmation email that fastmail refused to classify as not spam no matter how many times I so marked it. In general, I found gmail's spam filter to be the best. If, however, you don't need to regularly interact with lots of new email addresses, fastmail will work fine for you.
- corobo 9y agoThis is exactly it. I found myself having to manually classify spam/notspam for the first time in over a decade. This might be fine for some or even most people but if like me you’d prefer to spend less time on email not more it may not be the best choice as an email provider. Nothing against the service, just be prepared to manually train a spam filter
- ambrosite 9y agoFastmail user here. I had problems with spam too when I first signed up, but then I discovered I could change the spam protection level from "Standard" to "Aggressive" in the mail settings screen (the default is "Standard"). That immediately solved almost all of my spam problems.
- corobo 9y agoUnfortunately the problem wasn’t just spam in the inbox it was also non-spam in the spambox
- ambrosite 9y agoI never had that problem, unless you mean things like the occasional Facebook or Twitter notification ending up in spam, but I didn't care about those. Also, Gmail definitely has a problem with false positives. At the small agency where I worked a few years ago, a lot of our internal company emails were ending up in spam folders. It got so bad that I had to go around adding our company email domain to the spam exclusion filters just to make sure that my co-workers were receiving my emails.
- corobo 9y agoI'd rather be convinced by the benefits of something than the disadvantages of what I'm already using. For me, Gmail works. Fastmail did not. I'm not attacking Fastmail. I just didn't want to put in the effort to train the spam filters.
- x0x0 9y agoFastmail is the best of the non-gmail email providers imo. Plus they're a simple business: you give them money and they give you email. You should check them out.
- velox_io 9y agoI only skimmed their website, but I didn't see user aliasing[edit: they do aliasing & wildcards], or shared accounts. In fact any real mailbox features? I am becoming concerned about the power Google has over my life (have been for a while). They know what you're reading (Chrome, even in incognito mode via DNS), what your thinking (web searches), who you're in contact with (Gmail, Android + their Apps), not to mention maps and what they do with your photos/ drive data. Even patient data with the NHS sharing data with Deepmind[0]. The company needs to broken up as the Did with Microsoft years ago. [0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40497020 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40497020