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<div dir="auto">Thanks Philip. I was told by tech support that syncing with Google contacts is in the works for a future release. No ETA.</div><div id="aqm-signature" dir="auto" style="color: black;"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">---</div><div dir="auto">Sent from my Android phone</div></div><div dir='auto'><br></div>
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<p style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 8pt 0;">On July 22, 2021 8:20:42 PM Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">On 2021-07-23 01:13:58 (+0800), 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">Fastmail provides excellent service and a very robust, standards-compliant, infrastructure. After moving many friends, family and clients to them, I recently moved my gargantuan mailbox to them too. Happy customer!</p>
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<li>I see that Fastmail supports its own version of Labels. Is there something in Mailmate that will recognize those Labels? Perhaps Mailmate Tags?</li>
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<p dir="auto">I don't think labels add much value to an IMAP workflow. Going by the documentation, Ethan's notes earlier in this thread and some experimentation, they only affect the Fastmail web interface and their mobile apps. To IMAP clients, tags are folders. Given that you can switch back and forth between folders and labels, I suspect the underlying storage is unaffected by your choice of labels or folders.</p>
<p dir="auto">Note that Fastmail also supports IMAP keywords. As far as I can tell, you can't make these show up in their web or mobile user interfaces the way you can in MailMate, but you can search on them.</p>
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<li>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?</li>
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<p dir="auto">Fastmail contacts use CardDAV. They work well with every other CardDAV implementation, including macOS and iOS Contacts.app.</p>
<p dir="auto">MailMate will use your Mac Contacts and doesn't care where the data ultimately come from. If you sync your Mac Contacts with Google, MailMate will see them. Fastmail's web interface and mobile apps won't be able to see your contacts stored by Google.</p>
<p dir="auto">I would recommend importing your contacts from Google into Fastmail and syncing them to your devices from Fastmail. I have a lot more confidence in the standards compliance of Fastmail's CardDAV implementation than Google's. Fastmail can import contacts from Google in bulk but it can't keep them in sync.</p>
<p dir="auto">Philip</p>
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Philip Paeps<br>
Senior Reality Engineer<br>
Alternative Enterprises</p>
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