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Fully agree. I'm also a very happy Fastmail customer of over 10 years now; I could never go back to gmail
by foxtacles 3y ago
Fully agree. I'm also a very happy Fastmail customer of over 10 years now; I could never go back to gmail
- stavros 3y agoSame here, whenever I have to open Gmail for work I'm annoyed.
- arp242 3y agoYou can connect FastMail to gmail and never look at gmail. Your employer may not approve if you hillary your emails like that though, but that's what I did at a previous employer where this wasn't an issue.
- stavros 3y agoI could, but I don't want to look at work emails outside working hours.
- foxtacles 3y agoHave you considered setting up a rule using the Snooze feature[0]? Using this it should be possible to delay all incoming work email until a time that is suitable for you. [0]: https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-snooze/ https://www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmail-snooze/ Edit: If you want your work emails to arrive only during work hours and otherwise delay them, you can use a Sieve condition in your email rule similar to this: anyof (date :value "lt" "date" "hour" "09", date :value "ge" "date" "hour" "17")
- stavros 3y agoWell that's very interesting, thank you!
- hackernewds 3y agoI like your usage of Hillary as a verb. I don't understand the affinity against Gmail though. With the fastmail forwarding service are you still not using Gmail spam service and have Gmail access to your email anyways (not that I'd believe they do unless wearing a tinfoil hat)
- arp242 3y agoI just don't care much for gmail's UI; that's all there's to it. And having all email in one place is more convenient for me regardless – saves having to open/check another service. You're still using gmail's spam checking; it just uses the API (or IMAP? I forgot) to sync the emails to FastMail.
- psankar 3y ago> If you hillary your emails LOL
- dbrunton 3y agoCame here (and used Fastmail for password recovery) to say just this. I actually forget what it’s like to sell advertising on my correspondence!
- gersg 3y agoIf you don't enable "smart" features in gmail you don't see ads either.
- TylerE 3y agoI tried, but fm’s spam filtering is just hot garbage. Both false negatives and (more troublesome) false positives. It’s like stepping back in time 20 years when soamassassin with default config is as good as it gets.
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- UberFly 3y agoI experience the opposite of this, but I guess everyone's use case is different. They do use SpamAssasin and it seems pretty effective.
- moozeek 3y agoI have the exact opposite experience and find Fastnail's spam detection quite superior. There is the occasional spam.email getting through - maybe 1 per day - despite the fact that I have quite a number of custom domains with catch-all email addresses. At the same time I really never have to check my spam folder for false positive, everything in there is literal spam so I forget checking it for weeks on end. Whereas on n Gmail I always need to check the spam folder, Google completely overdoes the filtering it and a lot of wanted emails end up in spam.
- chrismorgan 3y agoI think I’m up to two false positives after six years, neither of which was in any way important (in fact, I kinda agreed with its judgement), and I’m up to 175 false negatives in the last 5⅓ years (of which 32 are from the last twelve months, which suggests a fairly steady rate across the whole time; it comes to about one every eleven days). Before that, I used Gmail (on the same address, for about six years), and my memory is that its false positive rates were around one every month or two, and some of them actually mattered; and its false negative rates varied: sometimes it’d go for a few months with none, then it might let through one or two per day for a few weeks. Certainly less consistent. In the last year I’ve also had to use Gmail via a couple of organisations on addresses with very low volume (less than one per day) which have never received any spam, and both have had at least two false positives.
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- ndr 3y agoI wish their android app supported offline access. It's a huge PITA when you're offline (say in a venue with no cover) and need to pull a ticket out of your inbox. I'm a customer and can't believe they've been in business for so long. I guess this feature will never come.
- dogmatism 3y agoThat’s what imap clients are for
- the_pwner224 3y agoUnfortunately all the FOSS email clients for Android have horrible UI/UX.
- tristan957 3y agoEven K9 (now Thunderbird)?
- zilti 3y agoK9 is great
- synecdoche 3y agoCould FairEmail be of interest? https://email.faircode.eu/ https://email.faircode.eu/
- qingcharles 3y ago20 years here. One of the only companies I don't have a complaint about.