FastMail

FastMail is a popular independent web-based paid email service (launched in 1999) that focuses on privacy, used by some folks in the IndieWeb community with their personal domain.

How to

How to migrate from Gmail

• https://www.fastmail.com/gmail-alternative

Issues

Spam detection

• Spam detection (apparently provided by SpamAssassin) is not up to Gmail standards. I didn't get spam for months at a time on Gmail, receive it daily on Fastmail. Despite obvious similarities between the messages and diligently clicking "Report Spam" Kylewm.com
  
• 2020-02-23 My experience is different; spam is no more of a problem than elsewhere, possibly less so. Jeremy Cherfas
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History

Fastmail was acquired by Opera in 2010, then spun back out in 2013, when the original developers bought the service back from Opera.[1]

At some point Fastmail acquired Pobox.com and is now planning to finally merge them [2]

See Also

• email
• Gmail
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastmail