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 typeApplication types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Features
Fastmail News & Activities
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Jim P. added Fastmail as alternative to Private.KiIt requires a phone number for registration. And it's not even a free service. Which means that they want my data / to spy on me, AND they also want my money at the same time. Hard pass. There is Proton Mail which does not (yet?..) require a phone number, and it can be free, too.
owenbrooks_if added Fastmail as alternative to InboxFamily- Sebastian Paczoski updated Fastmail
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At 5 USD/mo, you get a nice Email service that isn't being spied on by the Tech giants. They are so focused on the email service that the file storage service just isn't the same. It works but you only have 10GB for files only, whereas you get 50GB for mail.
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Install from the command line
brew install --cask fastmailflatpak install flathub com.fastmail.Fastmail
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Subscription ranging between $4 and $14 per month.Rating
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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.
It requires a phone number for registration. And it's not even a free service. Which means that they want my data / to spy on me, AND they also want my money at the same time. Hard pass. There is Proton Mail which does not (yet?..) require a phone number, and it can be free, too.
At 5 USD/mo, you get a nice Email service that isn't being spied on by the Tech giants. They are so focused on the email service that the file storage service just isn't the same. It works but you only have 10GB for files only, whereas you get 50GB for mail.
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.