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I've been looking at Fastmail when switching from Gmail this year, but the lack of flexibility in prices vs. storage size turned me off. All I wanted was a fas
by tdkl 12y ago
I've been looking at Fastmail when switching from Gmail this year, but the lack of flexibility in prices vs. storage size turned me off.
All I wanted was a fast IMAP host, with 5-10GB of storage, DAV for calendar and contacts and a simple fast web interface. After some testing, I've found ServerMX [1].
They're EU based (.nl, .de infrastructure) [2], have SOGo for DAV and webmail (offers full size contact pictures, which is really neat for mobile phones), IMAP sync is instant and seamless over all clients (Aquamail on Android, eM Client on Windows desktop, SOGo on webmail) and all that for merely 18€ per year. Their plans are well considered IMHO if you don't need much space [3].
Sorry if this feels like an ad, but I've been more then happy with their service and like to recommend it to people. They have a 30 day free trial to test the service.
[1] http://www.servermx.com/en/index.html http://www.servermx.com/en/index.html
[2] http://www.servermx.com/en/whyservermx.html http://www.servermx.com/en/whyservermx.html
[3] http://www.servermx.com/en/index.html#buy http://www.servermx.com/en/index.html#buy
- detaro 12y agoWhile we are recommending mail hosts, http://www.mailbox.org http://www.mailbox.org also is nice. From Germany, privacy-minded (you can have totally anonymous accounts, they encrypt everything with your PGP-key as soon as it arrives, ...), run by people who are quite well-known when it comes to mail servers (author of books on postfix, running conferences, ... so they hopefully know what they are doing) Webinterface is ok, but not perfect.
- msh 12y agoThey even offer exchange push sync.
- tdkl 12y agoOh yeah, I considered mailbox.org too, but was a bit more expensive for the plan with ActiveSync (for mobile), but major argument was that I've found IMAP sync faster (basically instant) then Exchange push in my testing.
- detaro 12y agoIMAP sync? You mean IMAP push extensions? I only use IMAP and it is seconds between me sending an e-mail to my mailbox address and my devices going "pling".
- tdkl 12y agoMaybe a poor expression on my part, I think it's the cause of IMAP IDLE. I tested marking an email as read with putting all three mobile, web and desktop client side by side and change was practically instant in a second. Too bad iOS doesn't support IDLE and goes as low as 15 min only.