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<p dir="auto">I am a Fastmail (and obviously MailMate) user. Excellent service.</p>
<h2>Labels</h2>
<p dir="auto">Until just now I’ve never used the labels feature on Fastmail. I tested it based on your question. Notes:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Labels on Fastmail are activated via Fastmail settings. The choice is between using Folders OR Lables (it’s a radio button toggle).</p>
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<p dir="auto">The choice is reversible (you may switch back and forth between labels and folders non destructively)</p>
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<p dir="auto">Switching between Labels and Tags in Fastmail is instantaneous. The UI and behavior changes (or reverts) instantly.</p>
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<p dir="auto">In the web UI for Fastmail, tags act just as Gmail tags do (in terms of user experience, not backend implementation). Messages may have multiple tags.</p>
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<p dir="auto"><strong>These Fastmail tags show up as FOLDERS in MailMate</strong></p>
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<p dir="auto">I don’t see any way to utilize these as tags in MailMate (i.e. I see no way to assign a message to multiple folders when they are acting as tags in Fastmail)</p>
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<p dir="auto">While Fastmail is operating in “tag mode” - If you delete a tagged message in MailMate from one of the “tag folders”, the tag is removed from that message in the FastMail web UI</p>
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<p dir="auto">When you revert Fastmail to “folder mode” messages tagged with multiple tags are seen and act as unique messages.</p>
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<h2>Contacts</h2>
<p dir="auto">In terms of contacts, I maintain most of my contacts in iCloud, but I have tested the contacts with Fastmail as well. It’s arbitrary as far as MailMate is concerned.</p>
<p dir="auto">One note about Fastmail contacts: you can create a shared contact book if you have multiple Fastmail users on your account. I do this and maintain a contact book that is “read only” for my kids so that I can keep certain contacts updated for them.</p>
<p dir="auto">We all then subscribe to this contact book in the macOS Contacts app.</p>
<p dir="auto">Happy to answer more questions based on my experience with Fastmail.</p>
<p dir="auto">Cheers,<br />
Ethan</p>
<p dir="auto">On 22 Jul 2021, at 10:13, Ralph Alvy wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Well, Tuffmail is sadly ending operations on January 1, so I'm seriously considering moving to Fastmail. That said, I have a couple questions.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I see that Fastmail supports its own version of Labels. Is there something in Mailmate that will recognize those Labels? Perhaps Mailmate Tags?</p>
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<p dir="auto">I see that Fastmail has its own Contacts module, but that doesn't support synchronization with Google Contacts. Will I need to import my Google Contacts into Fastmail Contacts for Mailmate to see my Contacts when composing a message? Or does Fastmail use my Mac Addressbook for this?_______________________________________________</p>
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