Great email service with novel features I have been using Fastmail for such a long time now that I can’t even remember when I first signed up. It must be over a decade, now. It’s a great email service, with some nifty features, on top of the “basics” like notes, file storage, calendar, etc. Lately, they’ve partnered with 1Password to support “masked emails” so that when signing up online you can automatically create an email alias, so if you get lots of spam at that address, you can just disable it. It’s a neat usability enhancement to their email aliases features which I look forward to trying out.

The spam filtering is very poor. The spam filtering is very poor, and they make the most absurd suggestions to try and improve it. They want me to create a folder to mark emails as 'non-spam'. What? If I don't move an email from the inbox to the spam folder, shouldn't that be indication enough that it is NOT spam? Speaking of which, I also receive Fastmail newsletters even though I'm opted out. This makes it spam, doesn't it? I will be moving to another provider.

One star One star - only because I can't give Zero star rating. Business class email - do me a favour. In what business is it acceptable to raise a support ticket which gets responded to 4 days later with a reply that says the issue needs to be escalated and will take another week? The only telephone number they have is a FAX machine - Come on, REALLY???? Terrible service, Non existent communication and impossible to speak to anyone, anywhere in the world ( I have tried).

Fastmail does not give you a free trial! Fastmail advertises 'Try Us For Free!' promising a 30-day free trial. They take your credit card and information to set up an account. Only then do they tell you there's no free trial, but don't worry--they'll add on a free month in your first year. When I saw what it would cost to add my wife as a second user, I decided it was not for me and closed my account. Did I get a free trial? No. Did I get my money back? No. In the jargon of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, this is a 'deceptive practice.' Ordinary people might use a different term.

Switched from Google, could not be happier I got sick of Google's constant pricing policy changes. Investigated heaps of options and found this FastMail, which has been flawless since day one. The support team answers incredibly quick, and the email is stable. The admin user interface is a pleasure to work with, very happy with this, especially after giving Google the 🥾