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I’ve been a happy Fastmail user for years, but in a recent thread Announcing Hey, it was alleged that fastmail will recycle your email address after you stop pa

by krrrh 6y ago

I’ve been a happy Fastmail user for years, but in a recent thread Announcing Hey, it was alleged that fastmail will recycle your email address after you stop paying them, and that it’s a common attack to try to register old fastmail addresses and try to use them to access services. This contrasts with Hey which will forward your old hey.com address to another address after you stop paying, and not make it available to future customers.

sgc 6y ago
It's probably worth using your own domain even when using third party email providers, so you are in control of your email address.
- stormdennis 6y ago
  That's a good point. I don't suppose there a way of leaving Gmail and bringing your @gmail.com address with you, is there. That was one of the changes that was forced on phone companies years ago to make it easier to move provider.
  - sgc 6y ago
    No, and there is no way to do that since domains are controlled by mx records, not email addresses.
  - kybernetikos 6y ago
    No, but Google will happily run your gmail address forwarding to your real address. I've been on fastmail for many years now, but I still get the occasional gmail addressed email in my fastmail inbox. I also use a lot of the other fastmail features, like mail aliases, DNS, and file storage and web site serving. I'm very happy to pay the money.
thesausageking 6y ago
Buy your own domain for your email and set it up with Fastmail. You should trust anyone, even if they say they'll always forward.
- kchr 6y ago
  > You should trust anyone While I would like to be able to, I suspect this is a typo...? :-)
EwanToo 6y ago
FastMail do recycle addresses, which I don't like, but Hey will start to run out of addresses over the years unless they do something. The better option is to register your own domain for $10 a year, something hey doesn't seem to support?

by krrrh 6y ago

sgc 6y ago

It's probably worth using your own domain even when using third party email providers, so you are in control of your email address.

stormdennis 6y ago
That's a good point. I don't suppose there a way of leaving Gmail and bringing your @gmail.com address with you, is there. That was one of the changes that was forced on phone companies years ago to make it easier to move provider.
- sgc 6y ago
  No, and there is no way to do that since domains are controlled by mx records, not email addresses.
- kybernetikos 6y ago
  No, but Google will happily run your gmail address forwarding to your real address. I've been on fastmail for many years now, but I still get the occasional gmail addressed email in my fastmail inbox. I also use a lot of the other fastmail features, like mail aliases, DNS, and file storage and web site serving. I'm very happy to pay the money.

thesausageking 6y ago

Buy your own domain for your email and set it up with Fastmail. You should trust anyone, even if they say they'll always forward.

kchr 6y ago
> You should trust anyone While I would like to be able to, I suspect this is a typo...? :-)

EwanToo 6y ago

FastMail do recycle addresses, which I don't like, but Hey will start to run out of addresses over the years unless they do something. The better option is to register your own domain for $10 a year, something hey doesn't seem to support?