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What's the recommended gmail alternative for personal email?
by cauthon 7y ago
What's the recommended gmail alternative for personal email?
- ProAm 7y agoFastMail
- eridius 7y agoI second the Fastmail recommendation. Not only has their service been great, but they're also actively working on improving email for everyone (for example with all their work on introducing and standardizing JMAP).
- rswail 7y agoI third the Fastmail recommendation. Just changed over to use their app on my phone as well, much better folder management etc than Apple's native app.
- eridius 7y agoI used to be in the "no webmail" camp until I started using Fastmail. I now find myself keeping a Safari pinned tab to their webmail and using it as my primary email interface. Also speaking of mobile apps, Fastmail actually supports push notifications for email in Apple Mail. I'm not aware of any other third party email provider that's ever done that (I believe Yahoo! has support for that but Apple did that themselves when the iPhone first came out).
- d33 7y ago(...) a company located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail Big wall of NOPE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#Australia
- Scoundreller 7y agoWish Mozilla would go down this road.
- m-p-3 7y agoOh I would pay for that. I was also looking at Librem One.
- jedberg 7y agoHonestly, Hotmail isn't too bad these days. I have to use it for a mail account I manage for someone else, and it's pretty on par with Gmail. Not quite there, but pretty close. And since it's from Microsoft, you know that it will be supported for a long time.
- JJMcJ 7y agoNow called Outlook, so you don't even have to worry about the slightly dubious @hotmail.com address.
- JeremyBanks 7y agoI think you mean "retro". ;)
- Smithalicious 7y agoI prefer "vintage"
- belltaco 7y agoVintage would be @aol.com
- 1-6 7y agoHaving an @hotmail address no longer makes you look prehistoric on a résumé. There are probably as much (or even more) stupid internet users on @gmail.
- Whack-kneed 7y agoGoing one step further you can have an archaic email address using Juno (still laying, not that you asked) or Bigfoot.com (still works but company resold many times)
- delusional 7y agoYour mail is probably the single most important service you have on the internet. Pay for something, or host it yourself.
- ceejayoz 7y agoHosting yourself is a good way to have half your sent emails never arrive. Own the domain name, but let one of the big players handle deliverability for you.
- v7p1Qbt1im 7y agoThis. I use my own domain names with gsuite and protonmail.
- pixelperfect 7y agoThat's actually the reason why I use Gmail instead of switching to a smaller email service - it's "too big to fail," I don't think Gmail will be discontinued for as long as Google exists, even if it became somewhat unprofitable, due to the outrage and class action lawsuits that would result.
- jjeaff 7y agoPaying for it has its risks as well. If you are unable to access for an extended amount of time (injury, travel, etc) and your payment method becomes invalid, it could cause your account to be shut down.
- nine_k 7y agoThis is a valid concern. I would pay for a year in advance at least.
- m-p-3 7y agoHosting an email server in these days with DMARC, SPF, DKIM and all those mail filtering blacklist is is world of pain but that's the price to pay for reduced spam I guess. I wish there was a modern protocol equivalent with authentication builtin.
- vzaliva 7y agoprotonmail
- nothrabannosir 7y agoSeconded, and it sends a great signal to the market that people value privacy. With actual money.
- antisemiotic 7y agoAlso another Europe-based provider: Runbox.
- Whack-kneed 7y agoTutanota.com
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- praneshp 7y agoFastmail. I can vouch for them, having used them since 2014, including after a recent re-design.