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Ask HN: Amazon WorkMail as an alternative to Gmail?
I want to switch from Gmail and I'm considering the Amazon WorkMail. I know Proton and Fastmail exist but I'm curious if anyone has experience with WorkMail as a personal email?
https://aws.amazon.com/workmail/features/
- giaour 7y agoI ended up moving to FastMail because workmail does not support catch-all addressing. It’s just a hosted exchange server, so the UI is very similar to what you would get with Office365 or an outlook.com email address. As with most paid email setups, WorkMail won’t show you any ads or mine your correspondence for better ad targeting, so definitely a step up from Gmail. I recall you being able to choose the AWS region in which your WorkMail instance is deployed, whereas with FastMail your data falls under Australian jurisdiction.
- akulbe 7y agoAs an aside, if you're a paying G-Suite user you don't get {mined for, bombarded with} ads either.
- dontbenebby 7y agoI've been considering switching to Protonmail since then my old emails would be encrypted. A 10+ year old trove of emails is a target both for hackers and overzealous judges. (Stored Communications Act means they don't need a warrant for >6 month old emails) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored_Communications_Act