Bonus question: what email inbox client do you use?

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    I used to pay for Gmail, then I used Proton Mail about a year, and I’ve been using Fastmail for the last couple of years, which I recommend. I don’t know of anything that’s as feature-rich and easy to use as Fastmail. You may not be interested in all those fancy features, though.

    I use MacOS/iOS Mail clients, but also Thunderbird as I’m trying to wean myself off of Apple’s ecosystem and onto Linux/FOSS.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      +1 for fastmail… it’s one of those products that isn’t trying to trick you… you pay for it, and it’s just a solid product that tries to be the best at what it is…

      it’ll let you have as many domains and aliases as you like, including wildcards for email (and lets you reply/send appropriately using any of those aliases)

      it’ll let you pull all your calendars and push events into a single one of your choosing - it doesn’t have to be theirs

      i could probably replicate some of what it does with my home server, but it’s really nice that i don’t have to

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        5 months ago

        I really want to move my domain from Google to Proton, but family accounts at Proton are so dang expensive. Fastmail is far cheaper than Google, so that looks like it might be a really good option.

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          5 months ago

          yeah i have my single email account setup with 5 different domains and a multitude of different aliases - including *@auto.<mydomains> so you can sign up for throwaway [email protected] and nobody knows that it’s a throwaway so it never gets blocked by services (and the + trick in emails is well known by people doing nefarious things with email - they’ll automatically strip the wildcard part out so it can’t be traced)

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    5 months ago

    Gmail

    Works fine. The only thing I wish they supported is shared mailboxes.

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    5 months ago

    I pay for a Google workspace account, but I’ve been thinking about self hosting. I’ve had my eye on mailcow for a bit, does anyone recommend?

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    5 months ago

    Protonmail, it’s fantastic. Sleek design, solid feature set, integrates with Thunderbird if you want to use that.

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    5 months ago

    Gmail, wouldn’t recommend. Use it out of necessity.

    I use k9 mail for checking on mobile and it is solid most of the time

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    5 months ago

    I use Gmail and the client I use is the browser along with the Gmail app on Android. … Yeah, I know, not a very interesting or fun answer lol.

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    5 months ago

    Purely Mail, yes; so long as you’re comfortable with one guy running the service.

    Thunderbird for desktop and K-9 for Andriod. Only because they were the most recommended and completely fit my needs.

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      5 months ago

      Haven’t had any issues with purely mail myself. I really like it

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      5 months ago

      I agree, Purely Mail is great and cheap. Very cheap (I’m always afraid he’s going to increase the price)

      The owner is kind and professional, but he’s alone, that’s the only downside.

      But if you use your own domain and you keep a backup of your messages, there’s no need to worry about the one-man show.

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    5 months ago

    I use gmail and my own domain with uninbox. The latter is a quite new FOSS email front/backend, but its still very new and lacks essential features.

    If I’d make the switch, it would probably be to tutanota.

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    5 months ago

    I like port87, but it doesnt have a mobile app yet

    I use firefox to add the website as an app(does anyone know if there is a better way?)

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    5 months ago

    Proton for personal email. Not immediately needing to escape but once my free email runs out of storage I plan to switch to something else because of the concerns raised by the incident with the French climate activist.

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      5 months ago

      IIRC they warn people not to use recovery emails if they’re concerned about leaking information, idk why though

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    5 months ago

    Mxroute with thunderbird as a client and mail on iOS for mobile.

    Unlimited domains and rock solid. Just don’t expect lots of hand holding the company focuses on making email work you have to sort out your own details. That being said they have good documentation.

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      5 months ago

      2nd Mxroute. I got the black Friday deal a few years ago. I love using the catchall to make emails on the fly for when I sign up for different services.

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        5 months ago

        I do exactly the same thing. Some more spam from time to time but usually thunderbird catches that for me.