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I've been using Fastmail for a little while (I'm still migrating from Gmail), and I love their service.

I've talked to support before and asked questions that got replies from a real person, which was refreshing coming out of Google's ecosystem. Their web UI is fast. Their support for custom domains is great, I can be receiving emails from a new domain in minutes.

One of their most underrated features is aliases. You have up to 500 email addresses on each account, which means all of your subscriptions can be a different email account, and those accounts can't be correlated by 3rd-parties.

With Gmail you can only use `+` and `.`, which makes it easy to derive the base email. With Fastmail, my main email can be something like `[email protected]` and my Walmart account can be `[email protected]`. I didn't realize how useful that would be until I started using it, but it's quickly morphed into a killer feature.

parent danShumway 7 years ago

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