I used to run my own mailserver. It was alright, but occasionally I'd screw up the config and not notice for days, or my auto-update of spamassassin would fail

I used to run my own mailserver. It was alright, but occasionally I'd screw up the config and not notice for days, or my auto-update of spamassassin would fail and I'd get heaps of spam. I moved to Google Apps when it was in beta, and I was quite happy for a while, but GMail kept getting worse. I also host my family's email, so when GMail changed I'd get calls from my mum. I use IMAP clients, so I'd also be as stuck as her! Replacing all the nice text buttons with icons really doesn't help, and their spam filtering was getting too many false positives due to others marking mailing lists as spam instead of unsubscribing. Finally the new compose view was the last straw. I signed up for Fastmail and migrated all my email accounts over, and I haven't looked back. Their web interface is simple and really fast. Search isn't as great as Google, but IMAP to my mail client sorts that for me. Spam filtering isn't as fancy as GMail, but I get fewer false positives - I'd much rather have spam hit my inbox than genuine mail get filtered out. Plus Fastmail lets you write sieve filters if you're a power user, it's far better than the half-baked filters Gmail offers.