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.

I've been using fastmail for years I've been using fastmail for years. During the time of opera ownership the new interface was dropped on customers without consultation. In my view it's a dog. Like many, I continued using the friendly old interface, even though it was a bit of a workaround to access it. Now that's being scrapped, allegedly June 30th 2017. In fact its mostly unavailable more than a month prior. Move over Fastmail,

More than a decade, 0 complaints, perfection. Been a customer for more than a decade, paying customer since 5 years+ (student, so rarely use any premium services). It always works, it's fast, it's not creepy like *mail. There's no service around that has better features than fastmail, and they keep adding good stuff (masked emails). The app is fast, low in resource usage, and just plain reliable. Calendar integration is equally reliable. Support is courteous, fast, and complete (and human). You just can't go wrong with it.

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.

I've used Fastmail for over 3 years I've used Fastmail for over 3 years. It's a fairly good service provider, simple to use and with good options. I only use it as a personal service as for business I'd look elsewhere. Having US servers is a definite no no for a start and being based in Australia, a country known for its terrible privacy laws, is a no go either. Not much they can do about it even if they tried, unless they move out of Australia and base their servers in a better privacy trustworthy country.