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@ohBananaJoe I'm completely conflicted over this. The safe answer is Fastmail but the future answer could be HEY. Still noodling on it.
@jack I’ve decided to move to Fastmail after trying Protonmail for a couple of years. Hey was very interesting to me as a possibility, but the cost, and the limitations you mentioned, made me ultimately decide to go with Fastmail. 👨💻 📬
@jack I don’t see myself sticking with it either unless I have a change of heart. It’s a different and unique take on email, but it doesn’t really solve any problems for me or make anything necessarily better. And the functionality I like could easily be duplicated elsewhere.
@jack As much as i dont like to admit it, gmail does everything I need it to. Theirdocument preview feature is something I cant live without.
@ohBananaJoe I’ve read a lot of other people mention mailbox.org lately. How does it compare to FastMail and what made you choose it instead?
@ohBananaJoe I was just reading more about it and saw their servers are in Germany, which is hardcore for privacy and data protection (probably more than Switzerland even, which ProtonMail is based in). Think I’ll take it for a trial spin and see how it goes!
@jack Here's the thing. IMO email as it is is great. If the internet consisted of nothing but emai (with some way of picking newsletters to same) l I would be perfectly happy. I think a lot of the fidgeting about email systems is a discomfort with the idea that everything is already FINE with email. Think of all your complaints about the internet: email solves or bypasses them all! I use Fastmail because I dislike Google's monopoly, but if I just looked at functionality I'd have to admit that gmail is awesome. So, use that email and drop a lot of other twiddly things, is what I'm saying.
@JMaxB I'm with you. I'm not in the "email is broken" camp at all. Doesn't mean that fresh ideas aren't worth trying, though, and I appreciate what HEY is trying. Let them "rethink" email and maybe the other services will pick up and run with some of the ideas that work.
@jack I tried Hey for awhile. As you say it's great but I needed more flexibility. Esp. since I have multiple domains and scenarios. I've found both migadu.com and mxroute.com excellent. MxRoute has been running a temporary lifetime special for unlimited domains, it's down to 7 accounts left last I checked. A great deal IMO and very solid service.
@grayareas I love Fastmail and ProtonMail. I've had a paid account with Fastmail for years and a free account with Proton for a few years. I paid for ProtonMail a couple of months and I'm using it for my most used domains and Fastmail for my secondary domains.
@jmreekes @ohbananajoe when I see something that’s literally a fraction of the cost of HEY and FastMail, I wonder what the catch is! 😂
@pimoore That has become my default first thought pretty much anytime a company advertises something for way less than a well-known competitor. Proton and Tutanota are the exceptions to that (for me at least)
@jmreekes I really like it, though my understanding is FastMail is the only service that provides push notifications on iOS. I’m still debating between the two services, but I can’t see myself going wrong with either. I’ll admit to still being disappointed about HEY and missing the service in many ways, there were some aspects to it that I really enjoyed. 🤷🏻♂️