I am also a happy fastmail.com customer since about 2 years now. I used mailbox.org before, a german email provider, which is quite cheap (1€ per month) and allowed to use custom email domains but their spam filter sucked. Fastmail’s spam filter is also not perfect, in fact Gmail has still by far the best filtering, but their service is great and I can use custom email domain’s too. They also develop JMAP a JSON based IMAP replacement.
Is JMAP even supported anywhere? Does anybody use it? Last I checked, not even Fastmail actually used this for anything. Seems like the project started with some energy but is mostly dead now? What a shame, as I’d love to use it somewhere… Please do correct me if I’m wrong.
At FM, we use it internally for some (but not yet all) of our UI-server interactions, and we’re working on converting the UI to use JMAP natively (once the standardisation work has stablised).
Finally, we’re just about to launch a new product that uses JMAP from top to bottom - Cyrus, Ix (a JMAP API generator) and Overture (a UI framework with a JMAP-backed storage layer).
So there’s lots happening on JMAP at FastMail and elsewhere.
That’s really wonderful to hear. Once a year I email FastMail tech support asking them if there’s a JMAP thing, but the answer is always something like “no, and we don’t know when if ever.” And then I’m sad. This here is the first positive confirmation I’ve received, and I’m quite happy to hear it!
Hopefully once you release a fully JMAP designed system, you’ll have auto-exporters from existing tag-based systems like Gmail? Something like this would probably net you a massive user base.
I switched to fastmail last month and I am very happy with it. Before that, I had been self-hosting for 10 years, but I started seeing my emails listed as spam after I switched VPS providers (despite correct SPF etc), and I wasn’t motivated enough to fight for my IP reputation again.
Also Fastmail, moved from Google Apps for domains 2 or 3 years ago. Besides the advantages others mentioned, subdomain addressing is also a cool feature. Some mail providers support plus addressing
makes it easier to write rules and to drop mail when the address is sold to some spammer.
Also their support is pretty good. I had a small feature/refinement request twice, in both cases they had the feature implemented in their beta site in a couple of days.
I went to fastmail two years ago when the server on which I’d hosted my own email for about eight years died. I was happy to give a great company about $60 a year to host my family’s email. I was probably spending $60 a month of my own time just to administer the damn thing.
I’m on Fastmail too, with my own domain, for about ten years. The web UI is focused and fast, and the iOS app is just a webview, but a decent one that’s quick. I use Fastmail aliases and inbox rules to send to multiple external addresses, like a basic private listserve. Tons of advanced features for mail users, DFA, and no advertising or shenanigans with your inbox.
They went through a purchase by Opera a while ago, then a few years later Opera sold the business back to the original Fastmail employees – not a single hiccup or business misstep the whole time. They are laser focused. They contribute back to the open source mail server community.
The only issue on my wishlist is that they still don’t support the full CardDAV protocol, which means I cannot fully sync my Fastmail addressbook with iOS, Mac, Windows, or *nix apps, but they’re working on it, and it’s due soon (early 2018?).
I think it’s cheap for what you get, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Another vote for fastmail. Been a user for several years now. Has by far the best webui out of any provider. Very stable, and quick restoration of backups if you ever need them.
Another +1 for Fastmail. I’ve used them for 3 years and have been pleased with all their services. Their documentation is clear, the system is not hard to use, and they answer questions promptly.
The only thing I’m waiting for is HTTPS support on their web hosting. But if you need serious web hosting, Fastmail probably shouldn’t be yout first choice.
I am on fastmail for my domain. Works fine, does everything I need.
I am also a happy fastmail.com customer since about 2 years now. I used mailbox.org before, a german email provider, which is quite cheap (1€ per month) and allowed to use custom email domains but their spam filter sucked. Fastmail’s spam filter is also not perfect, in fact Gmail has still by far the best filtering, but their service is great and I can use custom email domain’s too. They also develop JMAP a JSON based IMAP replacement.
I’d say the fact that JMAP is JSON based is only marginally-relevant; it’s got several significant design improvements over IMAP - e.g:
It’s more than IMAP replacement too, possibly better described as an alternative to Exchange ActiveSync.
I’m with mailbox.org myself, with the 2.5EUR/month plan and a private domain. Mostly happy, I don’t have issues with spam. They seem to be quite opinionated on how to handle spam: https://www.heinlein-support.de/vortrag/spam-quarantaene-und-tagging-der-grosse-irrtum. But it seems classical spam tagging has been added recently, though I haven’t tested it: https://mailbox.org/update-des-webportals-bringt-nuetzliche-zusatzfunktionen-fuer-ihr-e-mail-postfach/
I’m not that happy with the web interface though, it seems to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-Xchange.
Is JMAP even supported anywhere? Does anybody use it? Last I checked, not even Fastmail actually used this for anything. Seems like the project started with some energy but is mostly dead now? What a shame, as I’d love to use it somewhere… Please do correct me if I’m wrong.
Hi, I’m some engineering guy at FastMail.
JMAP is currently going through the standardisation process at the IETF to become an RFC. Several companies have built or are building client and server implementations based on those drafts. We’re putting a lot of work into JMAP support in Cyrus.
At FM, we use it internally for some (but not yet all) of our UI-server interactions, and we’re working on converting the UI to use JMAP natively (once the standardisation work has stablised).
Finally, we’re just about to launch a new product that uses JMAP from top to bottom - Cyrus, Ix (a JMAP API generator) and Overture (a UI framework with a JMAP-backed storage layer).
So there’s lots happening on JMAP at FastMail and elsewhere.
That’s really wonderful to hear. Once a year I email FastMail tech support asking them if there’s a JMAP thing, but the answer is always something like “no, and we don’t know when if ever.” And then I’m sad. This here is the first positive confirmation I’ve received, and I’m quite happy to hear it!
Hopefully once you release a fully JMAP designed system, you’ll have auto-exporters from existing tag-based systems like Gmail? Something like this would probably net you a massive user base.
I switched to fastmail last month and I am very happy with it. Before that, I had been self-hosting for 10 years, but I started seeing my emails listed as spam after I switched VPS providers (despite correct SPF etc), and I wasn’t motivated enough to fight for my IP reputation again.
Also Fastmail, moved from Google Apps for domains 2 or 3 years ago. Besides the advantages others mentioned, subdomain addressing is also a cool feature. Some mail providers support plus addressing
me+foobarbaz@mydomain.com
subdomains addressing is a bit nicer. You can make disposable addresses in the form of:
me@foobarbaz.mydomain.com
makes it easier to write rules and to drop mail when the address is sold to some spammer.
Also their support is pretty good. I had a small feature/refinement request twice, in both cases they had the feature implemented in their beta site in a couple of days.
I went to fastmail two years ago when the server on which I’d hosted my own email for about eight years died. I was happy to give a great company about $60 a year to host my family’s email. I was probably spending $60 a month of my own time just to administer the damn thing.
I’m on Fastmail too, with my own domain, for about ten years. The web UI is focused and fast, and the iOS app is just a webview, but a decent one that’s quick. I use Fastmail aliases and inbox rules to send to multiple external addresses, like a basic private listserve. Tons of advanced features for mail users, DFA, and no advertising or shenanigans with your inbox.
They went through a purchase by Opera a while ago, then a few years later Opera sold the business back to the original Fastmail employees – not a single hiccup or business misstep the whole time. They are laser focused. They contribute back to the open source mail server community.
The only issue on my wishlist is that they still don’t support the full CardDAV protocol, which means I cannot fully sync my Fastmail addressbook with iOS, Mac, Windows, or *nix apps, but they’re working on it, and it’s due soon (early 2018?).
I think it’s cheap for what you get, if you’re into that sort of thing.
What exactly is missing from CardDAV support? I’m happily using it to sync contacts to my iOS/Android devices.
Same here. I use fastmail for every new domain that I need email for and it’s pretty great.
Another vote for fastmail. Been a user for several years now. Has by far the best webui out of any provider. Very stable, and quick restoration of backups if you ever need them.
Another +1 for Fastmail. I’ve used them for 3 years and have been pleased with all their services. Their documentation is clear, the system is not hard to use, and they answer questions promptly.
The only thing I’m waiting for is HTTPS support on their web hosting. But if you need serious web hosting, Fastmail probably shouldn’t be yout first choice.
Yep, fastmail here too, it’s superb.