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Do you have to use the official Fastmail app? I use an app called Fairmail from F-Droid to connect to my email account, but I use Purelymail instead of Fastmail

Do you have to use the official Fastmail app? I use an app called Fairmail from F-Droid to connect to my email account, but I use Purelymail instead of Fastmail. I understand that IMAP doesn't normally support 2FA, so some folks are wary of it, but if you're concerned about Google it's likely worth it to give it a shot. PSA: Fairmail is fantastic, IMO, but be aware the settings are a bit of a paradox of choice. You can customize damn near every field, font, card, and style in the app... but that's a bit overwhelming at first.

sitzkrieg 4y ago
no. you can create app passwords for imap etc
Gigachad 4y ago
IMAP doesn’t support all the features the official one does, the most important one being server side filters. Fastmail has been working on an alternative api called jmap for ages which should modernise 3rd party clients. but as far as I’m aware they haven’t released it for real use and there are no clients.
- mfashby 4y ago
  it's been standardized by the IETF recently: https://jmap.io/ https://jmap.io/ and there's a couple of client & server implementations https://jmap.io/software.html https://jmap.io/software.html but it's a long long way from popular yet AFAICT from the lack of support from the big hosted mail providers other than fastmail.
- josephg 4y ago
  > they haven’t released it for real use Its been released & in use for years. (Nearly a decade at this point?). The problem is all the big email providers - Apple Mail, GMail and Outlook haven't added support. Its a bit of a chicken and egg problem - there's no demand for jmap clients because so few servers support it. And there's no pressure on email servers to implement jmap because so few clients support it. Source: Friends with some of the JMAP authors.
- tzs 4y ago
  > IMAP doesn’t support all the features the official one does, the most important one being server side filters Do you mean that with an IMAP client you can't edit your server side Fastmail filters? If so, a workaround is to use their web-based email client when you want to edit your filters.

sitzkrieg 4y ago

no. you can create app passwords for imap etc

Gigachad 4y ago

IMAP doesn’t support all the features the official one does, the most important one being server side filters. Fastmail has been working on an alternative api called jmap for ages which should modernise 3rd party clients. but as far as I’m aware they haven’t released it for real use and there are no clients.

mfashby 4y ago
it's been standardized by the IETF recently: https://jmap.io/ https://jmap.io/ and there's a couple of client & server implementations https://jmap.io/software.html https://jmap.io/software.html but it's a long long way from popular yet AFAICT from the lack of support from the big hosted mail providers other than fastmail.
josephg 4y ago
> they haven’t released it for real use Its been released & in use for years. (Nearly a decade at this point?). The problem is all the big email providers - Apple Mail, GMail and Outlook haven't added support. Its a bit of a chicken and egg problem - there's no demand for jmap clients because so few servers support it. And there's no pressure on email servers to implement jmap because so few clients support it. Source: Friends with some of the JMAP authors.
tzs 4y ago
> IMAP doesn’t support all the features the official one does, the most important one being server side filters Do you mean that with an IMAP client you can't edit your server side Fastmail filters? If so, a workaround is to use their web-based email client when you want to edit your filters.