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I'm a very happy customer of protonmail. They're consistently extending their offering (VPN, Calendar, Drive is up next), their pricing seems fair, albeit not e

I'm a very happy customer of protonmail. They're consistently extending their offering (VPN, Calendar, Drive is up next), their pricing seems fair, albeit not exactly cheap, but to be honest though, I almost consider this to be a feature - I'm perfectly okay with paying good cash for something as important as mail. Their UI was somewhat lackluster but they recently released a completely overhauled version (just a few days ago), which seems kinda nice so far. All in all, I can only recommend it. That being said, I'm mostly only receiving mail and rarely ever sending out any, so YMMV.

ByteWelder 5y ago
As a former ProtonMail customer (for several months) and current Fastmail one (~ 4 years): If you have more than 2 domain names, you'll pay 30 EUR/month for your ProtonMail account. I think that's ridiculous. The 5 alias limit for the "Plus" tier is also too limited in my opinion.
- Ly5846N929Rm6bb 5y ago
  I don't know how well all the features match up but you can use as many domains as you want on Migadu for $19/year.
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benhurmarcel 5y ago
Fastmail offers a VPN? I can't find anything about that.
- cascom 5y ago
  ProtonMail does
  - benhurmarcel 5y ago
    My bad
    - _joel 5y ago
      Devil's advocate, wouldn't keeping the two using seperate providers be better? Not 'crossing the streams' so to speak
cascom 5y ago
I have and like ProtonMail - but until it supports calendar in its iOS app it’s an incomplete solution / non-starter.
reaperducer 5y ago
According to the blog post, ProtonMail and others are in this boat, too.
developer2 5y ago
> Their UI was somewhat lackluster I remember looking at ProntonMail 3 years ago, before I settled on Fastmail instead. To be clear, I have no intention of leaving Fastmail; they have the perfect feature set for me, and have been forthright and competent when it comes to publishing details regarding the problems that have cropped up with their service. I have nothing but respect for the Fastmail team. Russia is in the top 3 countries for which the blocking of Fastmail doesn't concern me; no service is immune to this kind of government interference. That said… just to refresh my memory, and in case anything ever does happen to Fastmail in my country… isn't ProtonMail the one that had the WORST UI I've ever seen, where every click within the settings was a new maze embedded within another maze? I remember the UI for one of these popular and "secure" email hosts being so ultimately gross, as if it was designed and coded by a 10 year old who just discovered HTML with no knowledge of CSS, where it was just pages after pages of checkboxes and radio buttons with no documentation? Was that ProtonMail, or one of the other very few and far between options? I remember only having looked at a couple of the modern options to cut my ties with Google, and Fastmail was so far above and beyond the other "viable options", such that it wasn't even really a choice. One of the options clearly looked like a lot of low-level work had gone into security, but that it was effectively unusable from the perspective of the users–including admins–who had to contend with its interface?

ByteWelder 5y ago

As a former ProtonMail customer (for several months) and current Fastmail one (~ 4 years): If you have more than 2 domain names, you'll pay 30 EUR/month for your ProtonMail account. I think that's ridiculous. The 5 alias limit for the "Plus" tier is also too limited in my opinion.

Ly5846N929Rm6bb 5y ago
I don't know how well all the features match up but you can use as many domains as you want on Migadu for $19/year.

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benhurmarcel 5y ago

Fastmail offers a VPN? I can't find anything about that.

cascom 5y ago
ProtonMail does
- benhurmarcel 5y ago
  My bad
  - _joel 5y ago
    Devil's advocate, wouldn't keeping the two using seperate providers be better? Not 'crossing the streams' so to speak

cascom 5y ago

I have and like ProtonMail - but until it supports calendar in its iOS app it’s an incomplete solution / non-starter.

reaperducer 5y ago

According to the blog post, ProtonMail and others are in this boat, too.

developer2 5y ago

> Their UI was somewhat lackluster I remember looking at ProntonMail 3 years ago, before I settled on Fastmail instead. To be clear, I have no intention of leaving Fastmail; they have the perfect feature set for me, and have been forthright and competent when it comes to publishing details regarding the problems that have cropped up with their service. I have nothing but respect for the Fastmail team. Russia is in the top 3 countries for which the blocking of Fastmail doesn't concern me; no service is immune to this kind of government interference. That said… just to refresh my memory, and in case anything ever does happen to Fastmail in my country… isn't ProtonMail the one that had the WORST UI I've ever seen, where every click within the settings was a new maze embedded within another maze? I remember the UI for one of these popular and "secure" email hosts being so ultimately gross, as if it was designed and coded by a 10 year old who just discovered HTML with no knowledge of CSS, where it was just pages after pages of checkboxes and radio buttons with no documentation? Was that ProtonMail, or one of the other very few and far between options? I remember only having looked at a couple of the modern options to cut my ties with Google, and Fastmail was so far above and beyond the other "viable options", such that it wasn't even really a choice. One of the options clearly looked like a lot of low-level work had gone into security, but that it was effectively unusable from the perspective of the users–including admins–who had to contend with its interface?