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A Fastmail account was the best technology purchase I made last year.

by thwest 13y ago

moron4hire 13y ago
What's the story here? I'm always willing to purchase software if it's actually good.
- wlesieutre 13y ago
  It's a paid email service, with personal accounts starting at $10/year. Formerly part of Opera Software, but it's recently split off. I think the main selling point is that there's actual support when you have trouble. And it'll get some of your data out of Google, which has become a bit of a trend among techies.
  - levosmetalo 13y ago
    No, it starts at $40/year, unless you want to be wlesieutre_2111@fastmail.fm instead of wlesi@eutre.com.
    - danieldk 13y ago
      Yup. But GMail starts at $50 per year if you want levos@metalo.com, rather than levosmetalo_42@gmail.com. Unless you are grandfathered in via the old Google Apps. It seems that the probability of needing a number is also relatively small, since Fastmail has many domains available: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/signup_domains.html https://www.fastmail.fm/help/signup_domains.html Of course, the $10 account is not really useful, since it comes with only 250MB space.
      - levosmetalo 13y ago
        Yup, grandfathered. I remember I also had fastmail account when it was free, but lost it long time ago. I'm not complaining about 40$, but the laziness and friction on changing provider of my identity is still there. And I can't really test how it would work until I switch completely to it with my primary account, since using secondary account is not a real world test.
        danieldk 13y ago
        I feel your pain. I am also grandfathered in a free Google Apps account. I like Fastmail, but I need contact syncing, so I cannot fully switch until they've implemented that. And I'd miss the excellent GMail Android app. Especially it's search functionality.
- joelrunyon 13y ago
  $10/month. No tricks. Just fast mail. http://fastmail.fm http://fastmail.fm
- thwest 13y ago
  Clean, fast interface with nice keyboard shortcuts. No automated filtering besides basic spam detection, and creating sorting rules is straight forward.

A Fastmail account was the best technology purchase I made last year.

by thwest 13y ago

A Fastmail account was the best technology purchase I made last year.

moron4hire 13y ago

What's the story here? I'm always willing to purchase software if it's actually good.

wlesieutre 13y ago
It's a paid email service, with personal accounts starting at $10/year. Formerly part of Opera Software, but it's recently split off. I think the main selling point is that there's actual support when you have trouble. And it'll get some of your data out of Google, which has become a bit of a trend among techies.
- levosmetalo 13y ago
  No, it starts at $40/year, unless you want to be wlesieutre_2111@fastmail.fm instead of wlesi@eutre.com.
  - danieldk 13y ago
    Yup. But GMail starts at $50 per year if you want levos@metalo.com, rather than levosmetalo_42@gmail.com. Unless you are grandfathered in via the old Google Apps. It seems that the probability of needing a number is also relatively small, since Fastmail has many domains available: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/signup_domains.html https://www.fastmail.fm/help/signup_domains.html Of course, the $10 account is not really useful, since it comes with only 250MB space.
    - levosmetalo 13y ago
      Yup, grandfathered. I remember I also had fastmail account when it was free, but lost it long time ago. I'm not complaining about 40$, but the laziness and friction on changing provider of my identity is still there. And I can't really test how it would work until I switch completely to it with my primary account, since using secondary account is not a real world test.
      - danieldk 13y ago
        I feel your pain. I am also grandfathered in a free Google Apps account. I like Fastmail, but I need contact syncing, so I cannot fully switch until they've implemented that. And I'd miss the excellent GMail Android app. Especially it's search functionality.
joelrunyon 13y ago
$10/month. No tricks. Just fast mail. http://fastmail.fm http://fastmail.fm
thwest 13y ago
Clean, fast interface with nice keyboard shortcuts. No automated filtering besides basic spam detection, and creating sorting rules is straight forward.