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I agree that Fastmail's default spam filter settings are a bit to lenient, I also got around 3 spams a day. After increasing the spam settings I get about 1 spa

I agree that Fastmail's default spam filter settings are a bit to lenient, I also got around 3 spams a day. After increasing the spam settings I get about 1 spam a week, which is acceptable. There are a few reasons why I'd never switch back to gmail: 1) Reliability: Gmail sometimes had issues with Apple Mail where messages would show up twice, etc. Since switching to Fastmail I had no more problems. 2) Customer support. I once had an issue where all my mail disappeared from my inbox in Gmail. There was noone I could contact, all I found was a user forum with other people complaining about the problem. I never got my email back from the archive to the inbox. When you have a problem with Fastmail, or can't find what you are looking for in the docs, just contact customer support. 3) Backup: Fastmail allows you to restore email from backup (for a limited time). Really nice when you accidentally delete an email. 4) Web interface. I assume that's a matter of taste, but I really prefer Fastmail. 5) Folders instead of labels. I don't like Gmail's labels, and I'm glad Fastmail has proper folders.

rtpg 12y ago
what's the difference between gmail's labels and fastmail folders?
- favadi 12y ago
  A mail can be in multiple labels, but can only in one folder (copy doesn't count).
Svip 12y ago
If I may add, Gmail has removed the feature to send from other email addresses. Or rather, they now require you to have an SMTP server to send from other email addresses. Fortunately, the change has not been retroactive, so all my previous addresses were still available, but I couldn't really set up new ones. Which became a deal breaker. That - and the fact that I been looking for something not Gmail for a long time - made me switch to Fastmail. I must say, my experience with Gmail's spam filter has been the reverse. There are a lot of false positives in my Gmail's spam folder. But I am new to Fastmail, so maybe it'll bother me at some point.
akavel 12y ago
As to the spam filters, on the other hand in Gmail I'm getting more and more proper ("ham") mail landing in the spam folder recently... thus I have to tread the spam bin ~weekly to make sure nothing important/interesting is lost... particularly, it seems to like having certain persons on a blacklist (probably based on some misconfiguration at their email provider?), regardless of the fact that I always patiently go through them and mark as "Not spam". (Notwithstanding that I had them trigger a "send to gmail team for spam filter tweaking" dialog countless times, obviously selecting "yes" always.)
flurdy 12y ago
Labels is the one lock-in that stops me from migrating off Gmail/Google Apps. It is now what I insist on in a mail solution. Folders is just to inflexible for me these days as I auto label across multiple folders too much. Haven't really found alternatives for labels in other solutions. IMAP keywords is too restrictive etc.

rtpg 12y ago

what's the difference between gmail's labels and fastmail folders?

favadi 12y ago
A mail can be in multiple labels, but can only in one folder (copy doesn't count).

Svip 12y ago

If I may add, Gmail has removed the feature to send from other email addresses. Or rather, they now require you to have an SMTP server to send from other email addresses. Fortunately, the change has not been retroactive, so all my previous addresses were still available, but I couldn't really set up new ones. Which became a deal breaker. That - and the fact that I been looking for something not Gmail for a long time - made me switch to Fastmail. I must say, my experience with Gmail's spam filter has been the reverse. There are a lot of false positives in my Gmail's spam folder. But I am new to Fastmail, so maybe it'll bother me at some point.

akavel 12y ago

As to the spam filters, on the other hand in Gmail I'm getting more and more proper ("ham") mail landing in the spam folder recently... thus I have to tread the spam bin ~weekly to make sure nothing important/interesting is lost... particularly, it seems to like having certain persons on a blacklist (probably based on some misconfiguration at their email provider?), regardless of the fact that I always patiently go through them and mark as "Not spam". (Notwithstanding that I had them trigger a "send to gmail team for spam filter tweaking" dialog countless times, obviously selecting "yes" always.)

flurdy 12y ago

Labels is the one lock-in that stops me from migrating off Gmail/Google Apps. It is now what I insist on in a mail solution. Folders is just to inflexible for me these days as I auto label across multiple folders too much. Haven't really found alternatives for labels in other solutions. IMAP keywords is too restrictive etc.