Thanks Philip. I was told by tech support that syncing with Google contacts
is in the works for a future release. No ETA.
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On July 22, 2021 8:20:42 PM Philip Paeps <phi...@trouble.is> wrote:
On 2021-07-23 01:13:58 (+0800), Ralph Alvy wrote:
Well, Tuffmail is sadly ending operations on January 1, so I'm seriously
considering moving to Fastmail. That said, I have a couple questions.
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!
I see that Fastmail supports its own version of Labels. Is there something
in Mailmate that will recognize those Labels? Perhaps Mailmate Tags?
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.
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.
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?
Fastmail contacts use CardDAV. They work well with every other CardDAV
implementation, including macOS and iOS Contacts.app.
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.
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.
Philip
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