Fastmail. Who Knew? burk.io 📧

@Burk Is Fastmail pulling mail from all these sources?

@mcg yes it is

@Burk Oh very nice! I had Gmail setup like that until this week, when I pulled the plug on It. I blame you for the final bit of push to delete Gmail. 😀

@mcg that’s a much better option! 😉😀

@Burk but you do have to switch all your emails to Fastmail .. right?

I have spent so much time building my mail rules .. too much hassle to move them … where is my ‘rules portabilty’ …

I also took a tip from @rosemaryorchard and set up a rule in keyboard maestro to open mail in the middle of the night … in case it was closed … so all rules are applied and synched when I wake up.

@JohnPhilpin not really switch them. Fastmail acts on your behalf to fetch. So by logging into one Fastmail account I have access to send/receive from 6 different email accounts from various providers.

@Burk Not sure I get this part:

> Now I just have Fastmail grab the mail from them all and funnel them into one place. This is slightly different than a standard “forward” in that I can still reply from each individual address, so there are no issues there.

Are you forwarding your Gmail to Fastmail? I don’t want to import my existing Gmail to Fastmail but I would love to get my Gmail email in Fastmail. Is that what you are doing?

@pratik Correct, Fastmail essentially is checking my other 5 email addresses and delivering them as they are available. You can import all past stuff, but you don’t have to, it’s an option. It’s nice becuase you can then still receive from those addreses and also reply as that address if needed.

@pratik I am not 100% sure as I don’t have gmail, but all the others upon connecting them it asks if you want to connect and import, or just connect and get mail going froward from now.

@Burk Ah! Got it. I didn’t realize we would have an option to not import. Set up both my GMail accounts. Now 🤞🏽

@Burk so do you leave Mx records alone somehow?

@JohnPhilpin zero interaction with MX records!! 🙌

@mcg @burk woot! Welcome to the deGoogled group haha

@JohnPhilpin @burk @pratik am half-way through my Hey.com trial and torn between that and my FastMail sub. Love that I can use my own domains on FastMail at a lower price than Hey.com. Workflow is a bit different, but creating rules to triage incoming email isn’t that difficult.

@rom I’m on my second trial of Hey and can confirm that Fastmail (with SaneBox) is better.

@canion good to hear. Will check sanebox and see if it works for me.

@rom My review features a SaneBox coupon code to get you a free month.

@canion ah thanks. Will check it out.

@rom Had that Gmail account since the early invite only days. Not sure I’ll ever be able to shutdown my full Google account tho. Was in the Android ecosystem for a while and would loose a lot of app purchases.

@rom

What does hey give you that would convince you to move off fastmail?

// @burk @pratik

@Burk in that case I need to explore more deeply

@Burk I think Fastmail sounds great, but the $$$ of trying to set it up for a family of 6 people + a couple of shared accounts has always been daunting.

@Burk Just confirming, if I forward my email to Fastmail and have SaneBox running on that Fastmail account, does SaneBox filter everything forwarding to that Fastmail inbox?

@JohnPhilpin pixel tracker blocking and rules. Blocking trackers can be done on the network level. Rules for triaging is easier on Hey, not that it can’t be done on FastMail (takes a few more steps).

@mcg well, same here - early adopter here too - Google and Android. Still have account there that I keep alive but that is it. Nothing much there. Was iPhone first though - so not that much purchased on Android.

@sku_b ooo ummm. I am not 100% on this one as I am not using Sanebox these days, but It should be considering it’s all “one account” from the perspective of Sanebox.

@rom 👍🏿

@gpittman @burk OK, I can confirm SaneBox still works in this manner. It took me a while to get something delivered to me for me to see it. I’m running a trial of Fastmail now since I like the idea of having an email address with my domain. I also see they treat tracking pixels the say way Hey does.