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I am a very happy Fastmail customer. The one thing I wish for is more feature parity with Google Calendar, such as setting daily agenda emails. However, I’ve f
by mlthoughts2018 7y ago
I am a very happy Fastmail customer. The one thing I wish for is more feature parity with Google Calendar, such as setting daily agenda emails.
However, I’ve found Fastmail search, spam filtering and user interfaces to be great, on par or better than Google for all my needs.
One aspect of poorer performance with Fastmail has been boot up time on mobile though. The iOS app doesn’t appear to cache anything offline, so without a connection you can’t do anything, and if the connection is slow, app startup and display of mail hangs while waiting for whatever initial web requests the app makes to complete.
Nonetheless, I’m very happy with the purchase.
- epanchin 7y agoIs the iOS app necessary/worthwhile? I’ve never thought to use it, just the standard mail app, which does cache.
- leejoramo 7y agoThe Fastmail app is very nice, but not required Using Apple’s iOS apps will give you better integration with the whole Apple ecosystem, Fastmail‘s app has better integration with a few of their specific features The biggest advantage of using Fastmail’s app is that searching emails is MUCH faster and flexible
- wrycoder 7y agoI normally use the iOS Mail app to connect to Fastmail. This allows me to use the very useful VIP “inbox” to filter email. But, the Fastmail web interface also works great in iPhone Safari and provides their search facility. On my Air or Linux workstations, I always use the Fastmail web interface, it’s better than a mail app, unless I’m doing something specialized - then it’s Mutt or even Gnus. You can be logged into Fastmail from several computers simultaneously and processing email. It’s seamless, there is never a conflict. I believe they use Cyrus IMAP.