[MlMt] Fastmail and Runbox: trying to choose

[Pedro Lobo]

Hey All,

I switched to Fastmail a few years ago and the switch was painless. It 
was trivial to import my existing email using their tools. Here are my 
thoughts on what both of you have mentioned so far:

- With regard to the limitations on tags, I can't really say since I 
don't use all that many. For the few that I do use I haven't yet hit any 
snags.
- Server side filtering used to be WAY more powerful, but I suppose they 
realised that it was overly complex for the majority of users and 
therefore simplified it. So, it doesn't seem like you'd be able to tag 
incoming messages server side. You can however create rules to move 
mails to specific folders or forward to an alias used for your bills 
etc.
- Spam protection is top notch. I've disabled it for now since I was 
doing some tests with SpamSieve but when it was active, I don't recall 
ever receiving spam mail. I did have to whitelist one or two, but it 
learnt real quick.
- Since I have a grandfathered account, there are some of the newer 
features I can't test reliably, but from what you describe about your 
setup, it shouldn't be hard to create the users you need as your needs 
change;
- Push works incredibly well. When it was released, I did a few tests. 
iPhone by my side and MailMate open. Changed or deleted an email in 
Mailmate and the sync was almost immediate.
- CALdav and CARDdav are a plus, even if you just use them as a backup 
of iCloud calendar and contacts ;)

Do let me know if you would like me to perform any further tests, I'd be 
happy to help, and if you do decide to go with Fastmail and would like 
to, you can use my [referral 
link](https://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=12019021) to sign up. You'll get 
10% discount on the first year.




Cheers,
Pedro Lobo

On 13 Apr 2017, at 17:04, Eric A. Meyer wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm set on moving my personal domain's email, which is managed by a 
> third party on an ad-hoc basis, to either Fastmail or Runbox.  I was 
> hoping the wisdom of this especially smart crowd could help me decide 
> which is better suited to my situation, or for that matter what I need 
> to think about that I'm not.
>
> I have my primary email account, this one, and a few aliases that 
> funnel to it.  My wife and daughter also have their own accounts (one 
> each), and my son will need one soon.  I suspect my daughter will just 
> have all her mail forwarded to GMail, at least for the time being.  My 
> wife and I each use MailMate.
>
> I do use IMAP tags on my mail.  Currently I have a total of 27.  I'm 
> not planning on adding more any time soon.
>
> I don't mind at all writing server-side rules and filters to 
> pre-screen anything that gets through to the inbox.  I'd be very 
> interested in writing server-side actions to IMAP-tag mail the instant 
> it arrives, so that (for example) I could auto-tag credit card bill 
> notifications, payment confirmations, and suchlike.
>
> Both my account and my wife's account get joe-jobbed on a semi-regular 
> basis-- a pitfall of having ancient, public addresses.  I'd love to 
> have a service that detected and suppressed the bounce floods that 
> result, without me having to write rules to do so.  (I can write those 
> rules, in fact have written them in the past, but I'd rather not have 
> to do it again.)
>
> I don't plan to use a web-based mail interface since I already have 
> MailMate, but having a good one is a plus for those times I might need 
> one.
>
> I don't intend to migrate calendars off of iCloud, at least at this 
> point, since that's working well enough for the family at this stage.  
> I don't use cloud-based notes in general, so that's not a needed 
> service either.
>
> For the future, I do have email on a completely separate domain, again 
> administered ad-hoc by the aforementioned third party.  I might want 
> to migrate it over as well.
>
> I've read the documentation for both Fastmail and Runbox, checked out 
> some past articles and podcasts, and used MailMate to trawl through 
> past posts about both companies here on the list.  Both seem like 
> they'd be solid choices, but is there anything about what I've 
> described that seems like a roadblock to one or the other?  Or that 
> heavily favors one over the other?
>
>
> --
> Eric A. Meyer - http://meyerweb.com/
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