Fastmail
Fastmail offers secure email hosting with comprehensive webmail services, including IMAP, POP, and SMTP protocols. It supports file sharing, shared folders, large mailboxes, instant messaging, and is compatible with popular email programs. Excellent for businesses with compliance features.
Cost / License
- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Support for Aliases
- File Storage
- CalDAV Support
- Ad-free
- SMTP Support
- JMAP
- Calendar Integration
- Mail Filtering
- Multiple Account support
- Spam Filter
- Calendar View
- Cloud Sync
- Dark Mode
- Reminders
- No Tracking
- Email Organizer
- Full-Text Search
- Two-factor Authentication
- Integrated Spam Protection
- Mail Server
- CardDAV Support
- IMAP Support
- Custom Domain
- GDPR Compliant
- Sieve filtering
- POP3 Support
- Snooze Mail
- Contacts
- Built-in Calendar
Fastmail News & Activities
Recent News
- Fla published news article about Fastmail
Fastmail launches MCP server to enable direct AI integrationFastmail has launched an MCP server, supporting direct integration with AI clients through the open...
- POX published news article about Fastmail
Fastmail's update brings multi-window support, better compose experience & inline repliesFastmail has released a major update to its webmail service, focusing on enhanced multitasking and ...
- POX published news article about Proton Mail
Tired of Gmail's invasive data collection? Try these privacy-focused alternativesIn an era where digital privacy feels increasingly like a luxury good, ditching Gmail has become a ...
Recent activities
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Switched over about three days ago and the first thing that hit me was how clean it feels. No ads anywhere, nothing fighting for attention, the interface just stays out of your way. Pages load fast and bouncing around the inbox is quick, which sounds like a low bar but plenty of webmail still gets it wrong. Setting up my own domain went smoother than I expected too. It has only been a few days so I can't speak to the long run yet, but so far it has been a genuine relief to use.
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What is Fastmail?
Fastmail is a secure email service provider offering features such as webmail, IMAP, POP, and SMTP, secure DAV file access, FTP, and LDAP access to the address book. It is used by many individuals and businesses due to its reliable infrastructure and cost structure. The service offers large mailboxes, supports shared folders, files, and instant messaging, and is compatible with popular email programs. It also includes business compliance features. Fastmail is known for its junk mail protection, temporary secure SMS passwords, web folders for photos and files, and integration with the 1Password management tool.
Fastmail information
Developed by
Fastmail Pty Ltd Licensing
Proprietary and Commercial product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $4 and $14 per month.Rating
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- English
- French
- Dutch
- Italian
- Japanese
- Chinese
- Korean
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Danish
- Turkish
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Russian
- Slovak
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Comments and Reviews
I've been a Fastmail user for almost a decade, and have found it to be outstanding for e-mail, calendars, and contacts. The web interface is superb (the responsive design works perfectly on desktop and mobile devices) and it's always been fast, easy to use, with good documentation with lots of storage space.
Fastmail provides e-mail services for my custom domains, which was easy to set up by changing the MX and A records with my domain registration provider. Fastmail even provides me with hosting for static web content. I also like that Fastmail is an active developer of the mail systems they use, and contributes back to the open source projects used to run their systems.
Yes, there is a charge to use Fastmail, but it's a trivial amount of money on a per-month basis, and I consider it well worth the cost when compared to the awful "free" mail systems available from tech industry giants, or woeful services provided by an ISP.
Honestly, I absolutely love Fastmail, and I've never had any problems with it. It's rock-solid, and the Fastmail team seems very proactive in building new features and locking down security issues before they become a problem. The iOS app is so much faster than the standard iOS mail app, though it's missing the ability to send messages with attached images or videos at a reduced resolution. There's also no native app for Windows 10 or Windows 10 mobile.
I've never had to contact Fastmail support, because I'm quite technical, and the Fastmail documentation is good. There's a blog where the Fastmail team posts information about new features and fixes. I'd recommend subscribing to that to get updates, though I tend to unsubscribe in December and re-subscribe in January because the Fastmail team does a weird annual "24 days of Fastmail updates" holiday series of posts with deeply technical information about mail server innards. From January to November, it has very relevant and interesting posts.
I don't even know why would I pay so much money for this app. Not Opensource, no E2EE or encryprion at rest. They can view, scan my mails even after I pay them money. Crazy expensive Gmail is what it is.
"no [...] encryprion at rest"
This is not even true. https://www.fastmail.com/features/security/
Switched over about three days ago and the first thing that hit me was how clean it feels. No ads anywhere, nothing fighting for attention, the interface just stays out of your way. Pages load fast and bouncing around the inbox is quick, which sounds like a low bar but plenty of webmail still gets it wrong. Setting up my own domain went smoother than I expected too. It has only been a few days so I can't speak to the long run yet, but so far it has been a genuine relief to use.
Too pricey but 5 stars for the JMAP protocol.
Excellent mail service and webmail. Feature list on pricing is a bit sneaky (50GB mail and 10GB drive storage gets passed off as "60GB storage"), but I'll forgive them.
I've hosted my own server mail (dovecot) for years with Roundcube then RainLoop then Snappymail web interfaces. After a server crash I decided to migrate to Fastmail to host my emails.
The web interface provides many features as Gmail (filter, search, conversation view, ...), but can be really dark :-D It's a progressive web app (PWA) which can act as a desktop client.
It's fast and reliable. 6 months after my migration I'm still happy.
However, the mobile version could be improved but I do not use it a lot.
Amazing if you have lots of domains. Love how simple and minimal the interface is compared to bloated Gmail.