Fastmail reddit gmail Setting up a custom domain, plus another for Masked Emails, is not hard at all. com. An often overlooked tidbit: FastMail was bought by Opera awhile back, and then the original founders bought it back from Opera. So, why FastMail over GMail? There's legit reasons in terms of privacy, just not in the way people tend to bring up. Using Fastmail with a custom domain name, my overall goal is to provide various web services with different email addresses on an account-by-account basis for general spam and security hygiene. I’ve just switched all my 110 masked email with custom domain to gmail and planning to switch back to gmail completely. Leaving Fastmail for Gmail. fastmail. Then IMAP both your FastMail and Gmail, within the client you should be able to copy-paste/drag-and-drop folders from one another and let the client handle the rest - I’m doing this from Gmail to FastMail to handle my migration (vs. the import tool to give the opportunity for some folder cleanup and “spring cleaning”). Fastmail is the best…. I use Gmail and with that I have labels in use, everything stays in inbox. For that matter you could do that with any folder FastMail/folder -> pop3 Gmail with label -> imap FastMail access. But when accessing it via IMAP you'll get multiple copies for every label (like gmail does). Our goal is to help Redditors get answers to questions about Fidelity products and services, money movement, transfers, trading and more. And that was it. I’d like to understand what the downsides of switching from Gmail to FastMail are. Let's say your email is yourname@fastmail. I used Gmail and Outlook before with Mail but Fastmail is the best so far for me, search and push notifications are working fine and the service reliable with the app. I'd send a mail and it arrived in my other account. Has anybody made the switch? If so, how has it been? One issue I have is that I have set up a number of email aliases with Fastmail (using my custom domain). u/gmail is full of lost causes that have no way to get their email back, so I decided to look for another option. Fastmail is true email service with storage. Using iCloud Mail I can confidently say that it is a very basic service, and a very incomplete one too. As the title says, I loved Fastmail. From Apple mail, iPhone mail, the web interface or iOS app doesn’t matter. FastMail is significantly more private than an ad-supported service such as Gmail or Yahoo. ) 3. When you register your email i. Does anyone use FastMail only as their email provider, and then use Gmail to manage the emails? I'm curious about experiences about this, as I just recently learned Gmail supports this for many years already. But I may also look into using an inbox zero attempt as well. thanks man for the explanation. I’ve done some quick testing, Fastmail app works perfectly well, but again no widget, and iOS calendar works. The only downside for me is that you have to add the aliases manually if you want to use them. I would like to test it in Gmail, but the only gmail account I have is a forwarded one (lost access but forwarding still works). Am I happy? It's okay. Using mutt via smtp (w/ app password). Just wish Fastmail made widgets, I could kill 3 apps in one here! Lol I migrated out of gmail to Hey last year, hit some snags (reflector lists, lots of mouse/scroll action, etc) and made fastmail prime and am completely thrilled. Luckily there are just around 3-5 such cases. I use +suffixes in my emails for companies that I don't trust so that I can see if they sell or leak my email address (I should probably switch to masked emails for this, but I am bringing along some legacy for now). I use fastmail at the moment for my primary domains. I do like onmail, but await 2FA TOTP support. You are basically using gmail as your fastmail webmail client. Reply to a forwarded email. Do you know how to register a domain at a registrar? From there The simplest solution is to just configure your local clients to send through fastmail's servers. I had ~20k emails migrated over in 10 minutes or so I really like the Fastmail web interface and iOS app Their tools to step through the DNS record changes, and check them afterwards are well polished. ProtonMail seems to be a privacy driven solution whereas FastMail appears to a rather complete solution. most likely they want to migrate/push pobox users over to fastmail. Check the `Reverse` mode checkbox Hit save at the bottom of the page This will open every links from Chrome in Firefox excluding links from the Fastmail domain. paying $60 a year (which isn't too terrible). Requests or posts that contain sensitive information should be directed to the official Fastmail support. I still have gmail forward to Fastmail (or fetched by Fastmail, I forget which) but nothing of any importance goes there, just lots of junk and messages from google themselves. The shortcomings I noted above regarding the rules engine remain an issue. 20K moved but 2K are stuck! They will not leave Fastmail! So far ProtonMail and FastMail have popped up most of the time. Your only option is after the fetch, to keep a copy on GMail servers (it will stay unread on GMail) or completely remove it from the GMail server once Fastmail gets a copy of it. I've tested many providers and now I'm settling between Zoho and FastMail. I prefer not to use gmail because that would be the address that will be used when I reply to the message (I don't think it would be possible to specify my Fastmail address as the reply address but I could be wrong. ) better. I need more than 3 addresses per domain, ideally catch-all, better rules & integration with contact groups. Fastmail says they don’t scan your email. The UI is great, basically it looks and works very similarly to GMail before the big 2013 UI overhaul, which is great. Once everything is configured with the accounts, just set the Gmail account to sync "Outlook <- Server (Replicate)" and the Fastmail account to "Outlook -> Server (Replicate)" 2) Davx5 should work like other people mentioned. So that didn't cause any problems. The main thing I'd say is that pretty much any of the ones on that link and that you mentioned are a huge step up compared to the likes of Gmail, outlook, etc. Sound familiar? I’m using the Mail app. 😂 I was becoming more and more concerned about getting locked out of my personal Gmail account. Please first read the Mint Mobile Reddit FAQ that is stickied and linked in the sub about and sidebar, as this answers most questions posted in this sub. Actually you can use everything you want before the @ sign. Come to think of it, I may just go ahead and do that. Fastmail can spam legit emails but you can train FM and mark the email safe. For one, I test-migrated a small batch of mail from Gmail using Thunderbird, and you can immediately notice that pulling up/down from Fastmail to local mbox is 3-10 times faster than doing the same from the Gmail IMAP servers. Sorry for the delay in responding. bonus is i now have an extra mailbox for my pobox email. I'm attempting to import my emails from Gmail to Fastmail, but when I get to the step approving Fastmail to access my Gmail account and click Allow, Google just gives me their generic "Something went wrong" message, no further information. You just tell the migration utility to use generic IMAP, give it your Fastmail The main thing I'd say is that pretty much any of the ones on that link and that you mentioned are a huge step up compared to the likes of Gmail, outlook, etc. Well, I never left Fastmail. I don't sync all of my Google calendars to Fastmail because Fastmail is much faster at syncing external calendars than Google is. if fastmail will change the way it was due to the aussie spying law, would there be any email providers that can truly secure all of our information? cause if FM will be like Gmail in the future, it wont make sense paying for their service and might as well switch again to another provider A little side note of sorts. Right now I use fastmail with custom domain and aliases for registrations and accounts from which I don't need to send emails, and use gmail for those cases when I need to send email. I have two domains that I migrated from gmail to iCloud about a year ago. iCloud email felt unreliable and clunky. I moved back to Fastmail after my Hey affair. Hello! I just moved from Gmail to fastmail. fm, which is being recommended as a more secure Gmail replacement. I’m using a custom domain so I’m not sure if that’s the problem but doesn’t give me great confidence to move to fastmail. Both can have disposable aliases and reply from them. While moving to folders would achieve your goal I think you are trying to fix a problem that really doesn't exist and will limit your options if you have an email that covers multiple subjects. I'm trying to organize my email system and feel very lost cause I have a few random emails lingering (gmail, iCloud, domain). I have a question for folks who are here to discuss- can Fastmail make a setting where you can control the way fastmail names the people involved? Like in gmail, instead of "your name" in the people section, its says "me" for brevity? That way, instead of saying something like Mary B, Gene S, Don P* (3) If I already paid for iCloud+, I would give it a try with an unused domain or a subdomain of my main one before going all in. I am using Apple Mail and imap (both accounts) to drag and drop emails from Fastmail to Gmail. Gmail reads your email to harvest marketing information. But I found too much going on in Fastmail) If we take "simpler" in its basic sense (not "easier" but "having fewer elements"), this distinction of HEY's is NOT subjective. It was a critical part of the r/degoogle process for me last year. I hardly get emails from them. I know some people will say in terms of privacy, a proton is better, but I prefer an older company with a good reputation. I don't even have to unsubscribe! Fastmail has been very reliable and very cheap. It appears to have benefitted from the time spent under a larger company with more resources. When I transition to Fastmail, I'll be using folders, because I'll need to use the shared folder function. The lack of IMAP support makes using Protonmail a bit of a challenge. Our goal is to bring together Fastmail users to share advice. Given that I'm already paying for iCloud+, I'm wondering if I should just my email over to iCloud+. But those that I'd send didn't cause any problems. If you have an email with more than one label, you will end up I don't think it's the job of this reddit to sell FM and attend to daily Gmail angst from the new users. It'd be great if the community can throw some light on how good/bad is ProtonMail/FastMail and if there's any other option available. Edit: Looks like with masked emails you have to select either fastmail domain or your own domain in the settings and then you can create the masked address using the domain you chose. Open Gmail, Fastmail, ProtonMail, Outlook and HEY in five different windows on a big computer screen and step ten feet back. Fastmail subreddit is far less active than proton's. The video has to be an activity that the person is known for. would also love any tips on how people organize their emails without giving themselves a headache thinking about it. I'm confused, however, because the Migrate to Fastmail from Gmail Guide says: Note Each label in Gmail is created as a folder in Fastmail. I haven’t used their commercial services in a while. My main Fastmail calendar is a Google calendar. But, it's cheaper and it gets Fastmail is for sure a good option over Protonmail. for me, what pushed me over, the pobox smtp has always been problematic but has since stopped working for me and so i had to upgrade my pobox basic to pobox mailstore which includes fastmail to be able send from my pobox address. I went with Fastmail this year to escape Google Workspace and Gmail, after an appalling Google support experience late last year, despite being a paid Google customer of several services. I'm thinking about migrating one of my GSuite Legacy Basic accounts to Fastmail primarily because Fastmail supports labels like Google does. You definitely don't understand what private is. As for the Hide My Email, Fastmail calls it Masked Email: this is handy with online trials and news subscriptions. I’m using Fastmail with my domains. I changed my greengeeks account to also forward to a gmail address but I wondered it that was the best way. Not a "deal-breaker" for me yet as you say, but might force me to use Outlook. One feature I'm missing is that if I'd get an email with any event date Gmail would convert it into a calendar invite. I have 8GBs of emails, so Zoho plan (10GB) would be $12 vs FastMail Standard (30GB) would be $50. (I’ve also posted in the fastmail subreddit) Hi all So email to me is 99% for accounts, and 1% for emailing people, which isn’t that often So I’ve come here to ask, people in a similar situation to me, do you pay for fastmail, which is about £40 per year, or should I go to iCloud custom domains seeing as I already pay for iCloud+ Im considering switching from Gmail to fastmail and I dont particularly like the fastmail app. So I have the family gmail calendar in my Fastmail, Fastmail does all the syncing and handling via an alias for me (which is linked to a random google account). You're very probably limited to pre-configured aliases fastmail knows you receive, but I have * as a configured alias, so I get (and can send from) any address. I found that none of the emails set to "skip inbox" (in Gmail) were arriving to Fastmail via fetch. Going on 20 years for me. The only reason I think Apple is a better service is because as it’s basically a monopoly in many countries it can easy be adopted by many people. GMail is just too sterile and all the elements without any borders make it look weird. A celebrity or professional pretending to be amateur usually under disguise. Instead Fastmail offers an easy alternative system. It sounds a little convoluted but it works. Fastmail is not very complicated, they've changed the settings a few times but at least now it has search to find things that got put in weird places. Because, like you, I was already paying for iCloud+. If FM was $30/year, I think it would be a no brainer for me. . Fastmail is, well, fast. Loved it so much, I made my company sign up for Workplace awhile back. I can receive, reply to my Gmail emails thru Fastmail. I'm new to fastmail and have heard about JMAP via fastmail's blog and support pages. I used to use gmail and had a shared calendar with my wife (also on gmail) Thing is, Ive had to keep my old gmail account open so I can keep the shared account live. FairEmail, Geary and Thunderbird do also show sent emails in a conversation view. It sounds like domains are a moderately serious issue. In a blind forward situation from an outside service, Fastmail can't do anything to the inbound message until it passes through the Fastmail gateway and hits the Fastmail MTA, at which point whatever spam protection Fastmail is using gets a swing at the message before passing it along to your queue/your MUA. I wanted an email server I didn’t have to run myself. Google shows that Fastmail only has access to Gmail and Google Calendar for me. (This is on a University backbone pipeline, so it's not locally bottlenecked). Requests or posts that contain sensitive… For some reason ProtonMail looks the best in this regard, even far better than GMail or even partially Outlook. If I add my fastmail account to the Gmail app via imap, I wonder if my emails will remain safe from Google's prying eyes? Migrated from Gmail today. So I found mailbox and fastmail are good alternatives to me. com and https://fastmail. Fastmail also has its Datacenter in the US. I access it via Fastmail which is great, but I want to ditch the gmail 'backbone' Have you got any suggestions on how to create a shared calendar with another provider? Thanks! If I wanted to get fancy I would probably configure the archive subfolder inside of FastMail to get popped to Gmail automatically rather than periodically. Looks like fastmail can do labels. FastMail doesn't harvest your email contents for ad dollars but they, as in the company and it's employees, still have access to your email and can read them all as they please. For me the final piece holding me for the last half a year was also a hosting for static files where I hosted my blog. I have about 30 gig I wouldn't use masked email everywhere, because you loose track easily. Install Fastmail as a Chrome application (PWA) Install Open in Firefox Chrome extension Go in the extension options and add www. A year after this, I just finished a migration from Fastmail to Gmail without issues. Plus their sieve support is awesome. Google, Microsoft, etc. Send a new message, select the fastmail address or set it as the default in gmail and gmail send it through fastmail’s smtp server. I'm been with Fastmail over the past couple years using a custom domain. e. I never have to use gmail page and i can receive send delete gmail related items via fastmail app. I gust trust gmail domain more than my custom domain. Interface is simpler (subjective, obviously. I have a test domain setup with iCloud, and so far it’s very basic compared to fastmail so I can’t see myself switching everything to iCloud yet. Actually I don't send that much mails. Additionally, spam is filtered by Gmail and won't be forwarded on to Fastmail. I have created labels as saved searches, so you have a list of labels as well as folders in the left-hand column. I compared various third party email providers and went with Fastmail for the features and the price. I picked up a few things from reading this sub and I’m curious to get your thoughts on them. Yep you can. I guess Fastmail's support of ARC helps prevent forwarded legitimate emails from getting picked up by Google's spam checker. I am beyond tired of gmail/google scraping my messages. Our job is to help the existing users and communicate to FM the needed improvements. What I didn’t realize is the thing I loved about Gmail was inbox categories and they aren’t actually labels. Fastmail iOS app is easy to work with. I moved my domain off Gmail a year ago to a different provider, but my 3 "family forwards" were really problematic and regularly got put in spam by Google. Asking for a friend. The most powerful aspect of FM as an iOS user is the fact it does push notification in background much better than even iCloud, calendar and contact management, while implementing imap better then gmail, via the native calendar and mail apps. My friends and family have my Gmail. Just keep in mind that iCloud+ has had a bug with custom domains for months and it looks like Apple hasn't even acknowledged it so far: outgoing emails aren't signed with your DKIM key depending on the client you use (mostly non-apple clients that must send via SMTP). I have dozens of domains, and hundreds of users running on them. I have recently setup my fastmail account with my custom domain and have migrated my emails from GMail. If you search for blogs on moving from Hey to fastmail, you'll get ideas on how to mimic Hey within fastmail. I had a problem with Fastmail fetching gmail, in that the delete wasn't working (it stopped on a certain date) ,leaving the messages in Gmail. I moved to Fastmail 3 months ago and it's been much better. You get about 30 different Fastmail domains to choose from when you create an alias including the custom domain. Yes. This means that your clients would connect to it, and it would relay all messages through fastmail's servers, rather than try to deliver directly. Fastmail support is good, it has way more features, great 1Password integration and more. I'd still like to be able to reply to messages at those times. There are two Canadian ones that also look good for privacy, although 5 eyes I know. I use SaneBox on top of my email to better filter messages. But if you really wanted to, you could set up a local mail server, like postfix, as a smarthost. mutt lets me free-form type the sender address if required. I really like FastMail lay out, speed, space and alias but I really like Zoho's pricing and I'm trying to justify paying more than 4 times for FastMail. I stopped using SL cause they kept on blocking emails and didn't give me the option to spam or block myself. New contacts sending email go to a Screener folder. I wasn’t looking to compare the Fastmail webmail with Gmail webmail which at least based on this sub is how most people think of Fastmail. Gmail doesn’t need to have some person reading your email. Google always shows my account as insecure because I use app passwords for K-9 Mail and Outlook. Fastmail: +600 aliases Expand user menu Open settings menu. Only emails I’m getting is work, newsletters and bills. gmail replies as the fastmail address since it knows that’s where the original email came from. I realize this comes with Gmail reading emails but is there something similar in fastmail? Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager from the scientists behind Proton Mail, the world's largest encrypted email service. It sounds promising. If Fastmail provided the excellent UI of SimpleLogin, I would drop SL too Fastmail fetches emails via IMAP but I wouldn’t consider it an email client like the Mail App on your Mac. But I like the Google interface (being able to add locations that autofill, colors, etc. But Fastmail works very well, and the price is right. The Web UI for iCloud email is pretty simplistic compared to Fastmail or Gmail. At least they used to. I didn't like the way Gmail handled email when it was forwarded. So many great features: Domain Support, DNS, custom SPAM filter rules, masked email, aliases, 2FA support with hardware keys. If that’s true, that’s what makes it more private. Who the hell cares if they like FM? FM should play hard to get, if some kid likes Gmail categories, it is not our job to explain the virtues of FM filtering. Find out which one is the best for you. More recently I switched to paying for fastmail and enjoying standard IMAP. com Aug 29, 2024 · Gmail offers an intuitive UI, while Fastmail provides a clean, privacy-focused email service. It's possible to receive all of your mail from gmail in your fastmail account and it's also possible to send from your fastmail address via gmail… Skip to main content Open menu Open navigation Go to Reddit Home I can't wait for Fastmail to offer offline viewing because cellular service in many parts of the countryside where I live is non-existent. Never had a real problem, and their customer support is amazing. I just created a new account and testing sending email it’s taking 1-2 hours to receive to my gmail account. 99% of my mails are incoming mails. I've been on Gmail since the beta. In Fastmail: I put all my contacts into different groups, then have filters prioritize the incoming email by sending each message to one of a handful of folders. But aside from fastmail's own clients, are there any email clients that actually support JMAP? Am interested in both desktop and mobile clients. Pass brings a higher level of security with battle-tested end-to-end encryption of all data and metadata, plus hide-my-email alias support. So I heard a ton of good things about Fastmail and I decided to open an account and migrate from Gmail. com to an external address (hosted on o365), and it was received via the alias. If you do use it, download the portable version, that way everything's in one directory for backup. I’m also a 20 year Gmail owner. imapsync is a solid tool, but it has a bit of a learning curve with Gmail (maybe it has a Gmail profile that will fix the rough edges), but if you aren't careful it'll delete and re-upload messages a bunch of times thanks to the way Gmail creates duplicates that don't match the source mailbox. As an official Fidelity customer care channel, our community is the best way to get help on Reddit with your questions about investing with Fidelity – directly from Fidelity Associates. It isn't as fun as self hosting email which I last tinkered with in the early '00s. This is the result of an analysis of google trends with “fastmail”, “protonmail” and “tutanota”. I am currently evaluating fastmail. I was in the middle of choosing between Proton and Fastmail, but as an email service, FastMail is superior to any other mail service. Fastmail was recommended by 100% worth paying for the standard plan. I also have my Gmail connected to Fastmail. Outlook is actually pretty decent, but settings are all over the place and finding something to adjust is like being in a nightmare. Taking advantage of Fastmail's Wildcard Alias system felt like the correct choice until I discovered their Masked Email feature. Fastmail all the way. Fastmail doesn't seem to offer nearly as effective filtering as Gmail, particularly a priority inbox equivalent. 7K subscribers in the fastmail community. I just sent an email from tester@example. You can then copy or move mail and mail folders. I love the simplicity and convenience of FM but free is free. I heard it supported labels so I figured I should be able to get my Gmail experience in Fastmail . Joined and switched to fastmail because of the whole gsuite legacy fiasco. However, Fastmail keeps coming up as a better email provider. The majority of my email is for receipts, and Fastmail provides better search and sorting functions to find what I need for return or warranty purposes. The free plan is pretty bare bones. When I first started with Fastmail, I wanted to go down the same route as Gmail - using labels instead of folders. I still use SimpleLogin on top of Fastmail for extra account anonymity and a quick way to stop spam. Doesn’t even support IMAP. Can you all shed any light on this? I'm getting free Google services right now vs. I've been comparing proton and fastmail for my degoogling project for almost three weeks now, and I'm actively following both subreddits. Question: I have three personal domains, one for the Another approach would be to configure an IMAP mail client like Thunderbird with IMAP connections to both Gmail and Fastmail. Log In / Sign Up; Advertise on Reddit. However, if the wrong email ends up in spam on Gmail, it won't be forwarded to Fastmail after you've marked it as "not spam". I have been playing around with settings in Gmail and Fastmail and discovered that I can set things up so that when Fastmail fetches from Gmail my Gmail messages are archived when they are deleted by fetch. But recently I migrated to free Netlify plan. For example, a professional tennis player pretending to be an amateur tennis player or a famous singer smurfing as an unknown singer. Advantages and disadvantages I found while searching: First of all, my threat model: I’m not trying to hide from the government, I just want data encrypted in the server side in case of a breach and protect me from online tracking. I've been a Gmail user for 12 years and recently migrated everything over to my non-profit Google Workspace account (which is free). Fastmail filters all and all are way better and advance than any other service I tried and use. The spam filtering isn't as good either. However, this isn't the case with forwarding. long time pobox user here. Settings in Fastmail: Migration --> Import ---> Scroll down to conntected services if you have already linked gmail and click Mail Fetch --- Click view and edit --++ select the email account ---- select the after fetching email section and choose Posted by u/Mystery_Guest_2050 - 7 votes and 5 comments Fastmail tools to migrate over existing email from Gmail worked very well and very quickly. I'll use it for a "Give us your email for this free download" and then delete it. , are of course data sponges, and scan people's email content and attachments. It doesn’t sync both ways. I have been using SaneBox, which does an adequate job, however it filters my mail very quickly after it arrives in my inbox. I just recently migrated them to Fastmail and couldn't be happier. This friend hates all email apps, hates switching between multiple Gmail tabs, but needs different Workspace accounts for From what I've seen Fastmail has a lot of good reviews here, and I like the UI, but people were really helpful when I asked about Proton so I'm I'm switching back and forth between fastmail and gmail for years. See full list on fastmail. for Amazon, you can use amazon@yourname. Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager from the scientists behind Proton Mail, the world's largest encrypted email service. To start with I want to say that an email with multiple labels isn't a bad thing and shouldn't be treated as being duplicate emails. Lots of people on Reddit complained about missing emails thru SL. I have tested enabling Advanced Protection but it only allows two security keys and it disables app passwords, which breaks standards so email clients don't work with it. They all forward to one inbox, but still it's a lot haha. 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