I've been wanting to ditch Gmail for too long now. In the context of privacy, I had seen FastMail mentioned a number of times on HN and by all accounts it looked good from the outside. One of the key must-haves for me is the ability to use a custom email domain. FM has that. Great!
Note: My needs are only for me. There are no other team members - at least not at this time.
Unfortunately, I've run into a couple of things with FM that for me make it a bad fit.
1) I've set up my custom domain and have an address, [email protected]. Unfortunately, in the FM email client - web and mobile - the default send from is always [email protected], and I have to manually switch the send from to [email protected].
Since I'm using this for professional purposes, this is annoying and a deal breaker. I don't want to sending from [email protected] *at all*. At the very least, if I'm using my own custom domain why wouldn't that be the default? Bad product design?
2) Along the same lines, apparently there's no way to "decouple" [email protected] from [email protected]. That is, to get to [email protected] I have to log into [email protected]. But that means - on web and mobile. - my admin "stuff" is readily available.
I would prefer it if my [email protected] had its own password just for email, and that if I need to switch into [email protected] to do something "admin-y" there's at least a "please re-enter your password" or "please enter your admin pin". Something to prevent mistake. Something to add a bit of sec in the case, say, I lose my mobile device and someone guesses my PIN (or whatever).
As far as I can tell, the only way to get the "decoupling" effect would be to have two @fastmail.com accounts both on the $50 tier. But even so, as far as I can tell, I'm still stuck w/ their email client defaulting to @fastmail.com instead of @my-custom-domain.com - which just boggle my mind that something THAT simple isn't possible.
I want privacy.
But I also want some sense of security.
And some sense of UX.
Thanks.
Note: My needs are only for me. There are no other team members - at least not at this time.
Unfortunately, I've run into a couple of things with FM that for me make it a bad fit.
1) I've set up my custom domain and have an address, [email protected]. Unfortunately, in the FM email client - web and mobile - the default send from is always [email protected], and I have to manually switch the send from to [email protected].
Since I'm using this for professional purposes, this is annoying and a deal breaker. I don't want to sending from [email protected] *at all*. At the very least, if I'm using my own custom domain why wouldn't that be the default? Bad product design?
2) Along the same lines, apparently there's no way to "decouple" [email protected] from [email protected]. That is, to get to [email protected] I have to log into [email protected]. But that means - on web and mobile. - my admin "stuff" is readily available.
I would prefer it if my [email protected] had its own password just for email, and that if I need to switch into [email protected] to do something "admin-y" there's at least a "please re-enter your password" or "please enter your admin pin". Something to prevent mistake. Something to add a bit of sec in the case, say, I lose my mobile device and someone guesses my PIN (or whatever).
As far as I can tell, the only way to get the "decoupling" effect would be to have two @fastmail.com accounts both on the $50 tier. But even so, as far as I can tell, I'm still stuck w/ their email client defaulting to @fastmail.com instead of @my-custom-domain.com - which just boggle my mind that something THAT simple isn't possible.
I want privacy.
But I also want some sense of security.
And some sense of UX.
Thanks.