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Even though I prefer accessing my mail and notes through IMAP, and my calendar, contacts and files through DAV using native apps on my computer and phone, I lov

Even though I prefer accessing my mail and notes through IMAP, and my calendar, contacts and files through DAV using native apps on my computer and phone, I love using Fastmail's web user interface. It's fast, it's responsive (UI is simplified on mobile but it's still the same design; not an alternative layout) and it looks really good. Site is down because of bandwidth limits. This is also a Fastmail feature: you can serve a directory uploaded to your file storage through HTTP. Even though there are bandwidth limits, it works as an alternative to GitHub Pages or to just make available some files you want to share with multiple people. However, it seems it doesn't survive a Hacker News hug of death.

Theizestooke 9y ago
Does it offer encryption features like protonmail or tutanota? I had a free fastmail account for a very long time, but switched once they moved to a pay-only model. Basically fastmail is ok, but not really worth paying for. The interface isn't revolutionary, but does its job. If you're happy with gmail or whatever web-client you're currently using, you're not missing much.
- reacharavindh 9y ago
  I'm a paying user of FastMail and love it for the same reasons you think they're not not worth paying for :-) Simple, minimal, FAST interface. I want it to just show my email and get out of the way. It is great at it. No fancy animations, no heavy UI actions, very FAST to use. I can happily use it even over a cellular connection without bloat. Encryption like Protonmail - I wish Protonmail was the E2E encryption tool with convenience, but to me, it is NOT! - I need to trust their promise not to deliver malicious web encryption code. What good is encryption if I need to trust them blindly? - As a collateral for this not so great encryption, they can't index my emails - meaning I can't search my emails based on keywords. This regression makes it useless to me. I pay for FastMail to host my personal email, and if they ever sell my data without my consent, I will look into legal action against them. It'd be a joke to think such a logic with Google.
  - mercer 9y ago
    On the last point, how much does it matter if so much of your email will still end up at google (either because of gmail accounts or google apps accounts where you don't even know right away that it's Google)?

Theizestooke 9y ago

Does it offer encryption features like protonmail or tutanota? I had a free fastmail account for a very long time, but switched once they moved to a pay-only model. Basically fastmail is ok, but not really worth paying for. The interface isn't revolutionary, but does its job. If you're happy with gmail or whatever web-client you're currently using, you're not missing much.

reacharavindh 9y ago
I'm a paying user of FastMail and love it for the same reasons you think they're not not worth paying for :-) Simple, minimal, FAST interface. I want it to just show my email and get out of the way. It is great at it. No fancy animations, no heavy UI actions, very FAST to use. I can happily use it even over a cellular connection without bloat. Encryption like Protonmail - I wish Protonmail was the E2E encryption tool with convenience, but to me, it is NOT! - I need to trust their promise not to deliver malicious web encryption code. What good is encryption if I need to trust them blindly? - As a collateral for this not so great encryption, they can't index my emails - meaning I can't search my emails based on keywords. This regression makes it useless to me. I pay for FastMail to host my personal email, and if they ever sell my data without my consent, I will look into legal action against them. It'd be a joke to think such a logic with Google.
- mercer 9y ago
  On the last point, how much does it matter if so much of your email will still end up at google (either because of gmail accounts or google apps accounts where you don't even know right away that it's Google)?