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I used to have a Gmail account too but switched to Fastmail about 16 months ago and recently renewed my account for 3 more years. It's reliable and the web clie

I used to have a Gmail account too but switched to Fastmail about 16 months ago and recently renewed my account for 3 more years. It's reliable and the web client is crazy fast. Yep, me too. My primary reasons: * I am moving back from Mail.app (+ Google Mail interface) to mutt. Google's non-standard IMAP drives my totally crazy. Now I use mutt-kz + isync + notmuch + msmtp. Thanks to mutt-kz/notmuch, I have full threads, even when they are cross folder and fast search. * On the occasions I do need Webmail, Fastmail's web interface is indeed insanely fast. * More control over filters, etc., down to writing Sieve scripts. (I don't use tagging in notmuch, since it is not portable to mobile, so I use virtual folders in mutt-kz with 'folder:' queries.) * Google is becoming too large and intrusive, and I don't want all my data to live with them. * I would rather support a smaller company that contributes back their improvements to an opensource IMAP server (here Cyrus). At any rate, notmuch is absolutely brilliant!

davexunit 12y ago
I'm a notmuch user, too. It's really awesome, but there's a couple things I haven't figured out yet that would really improve my setup. The most important issue is being able to sync tags across many computers. I'll remove the inbox tag from mail on one computer, and then I'll have to do it again on each additional computer that I use notmuch on. Do you have this issue, too? Have you solved it?
- danieldk 12y ago
  I basically decided to give up on notmuch tags. I index using notmuch and create virtual mailboxes using folder: search queries. In that way I get the best of both worlds: - notmuch + mutt-kz shows me complete threads (including mails that I sent or mails that are in other folders). - I can use Maildir folders as normal, meaning that changes are synced back and I see them on my phone and other computers. Of course, this has the downside that an e-mail cannot have multiple tags, but I don't run into that issue much. I primarily use search when I look for something that is older than a few days. My messy (and outdated) muttrc, if you are interested: https://github.com/danieldk/dotfiles/blob/master/.muttrc https://github.com/danieldk/dotfiles/blob/master/.muttrc The only thing I want to change soon is to switch from the OS X address book (using the 'contacts' command) to the new 'notmuch address' command for contact completion.

davexunit 12y ago

I'm a notmuch user, too. It's really awesome, but there's a couple things I haven't figured out yet that would really improve my setup. The most important issue is being able to sync tags across many computers. I'll remove the inbox tag from mail on one computer, and then I'll have to do it again on each additional computer that I use notmuch on. Do you have this issue, too? Have you solved it?

danieldk 12y ago
I basically decided to give up on notmuch tags. I index using notmuch and create virtual mailboxes using folder: search queries. In that way I get the best of both worlds: - notmuch + mutt-kz shows me complete threads (including mails that I sent or mails that are in other folders). - I can use Maildir folders as normal, meaning that changes are synced back and I see them on my phone and other computers. Of course, this has the downside that an e-mail cannot have multiple tags, but I don't run into that issue much. I primarily use search when I look for something that is older than a few days. My messy (and outdated) muttrc, if you are interested: https://github.com/danieldk/dotfiles/blob/master/.muttrc https://github.com/danieldk/dotfiles/blob/master/.muttrc The only thing I want to change soon is to switch from the OS X address book (using the 'contacts' command) to the new 'notmuch address' command for contact completion.