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I think good old POP and mailbox discipline needs to make a come back... at least for Average Joe users. I have a similar Fastmail setup to the OP. My parents
by nly 12y ago
I think good old POP and mailbox discipline needs to make a come back... at least for Average Joe users.
I have a similar Fastmail setup to the OP. My parents get $10 Lite accounts and I set them up to fetch all their mail via POP, so their mailbox never gets full. I also downgraded my own account from Enhanced ($40) to Full ($20) some time ago after I used Fastmails superior web interface and search to finally prune my inbox (I imported something like 10,000 unread emails from Gmail). All this is less than the cost of one GApps user.
I have all my important mail from the last 8 years or so and I'm only using something like ~500MB.
- chkuendig 12y agohe might (like me) still have a grandfathered-in account which is free (with ads) for up to 10 users. [edit: parent edited complete comment]
- tallanvor 12y agoOriginally they allowed more than 10 users... My account lets me have up to 200 users.
- nly 12y agoSorry about the edit... I decided refuting the arithmetic was a fairly blunt way to deal with the debate. I moved from an older (50 user) free GApps account to Fastmail. If I had been paying I would have saved $150/year, but just saving my time, and avoiding the now shitty experience of managing my mail via Gmail, was well worth the cost to me. Early on Gmails web interface was a revelation, now it's just below standard... and any momentum from their multi-GB storage giveaway doesn't cut it anymore. I think the final nail was one of principle... Google just aren't interested in offering premium personal mail services, like own-domain hosting to families or individuals. Using free GApps made me feel like an unwanted freeloader... a second-class citizen.