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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