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Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by kennell on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:00PM (#12250069)
The most important step for folks that wish to break free for Google: start using a custom domain name as soon as possible. Because the hard part is not moving from one email service provider to another, but getting your new email address in everybody's address books and changing all your site logins.

And if you love your Gmail interface and all the goodies that come with it, thats fine. Get a 1 user Google Apps account ($5/month) and start using your own domain with it. That way you have the freedom to switch to a other provider at any time once you are ready.

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by olalonde on Monday August 08, 2016 @03:54PM (#12250437)
Or if you can't pay the 5$/month, you can get a free Zoho mail account with custom domain and connect Gmail to it.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by brightball on Monday August 08, 2016 @05:20PM (#12250952)
Holy crap...

So I read your comment and strolled on over to Zoho, who I'd never heard of before. They have a lot of products...just wow. That's a lot of stuff.

It's just such a jumble. I find myself wanting to know more about what they have to offer but yet completely overwhelmed by everything that's there. Can anybody speak to the quality of these products? How well do they interact? Is Creator any good? It looks like a BPM offering that could fit for small businesses?

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by malyk on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:08PM (#12251203)
Just a heads up. I hate badmouthing companies, but... I wanted to use them instead of Google but my standard .com domain kept error int out in there interface and multiple support emails and posts in their support forum went unanswered so I bailed back to Google.

I wanted to like them, but their signup and support experience was terrible. Their other products seemed to work well, but they've lost me as a customer.

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by sridharvembu on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:10PM (#12251438)
(Zoho CEO here) I am sorry to hear this. If you can email me your issue I will have it taken care of. svembu at Zoho dot com.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by zhte415 on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @07:42AM (#12253860)
Hi. On a tangent, but email related. To you sub-contract the system to Alibana in the form of Alimail. The UI looks completely identical.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by brightball on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:04PM (#12252098)
I'm having a vague recollection about the company now. Did you spend any time at Clemson?
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by 00098345 on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:50PM (#12251355)
The founder, Sridhar, is on here: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sridharvembu

Very talented and humble guy.

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by viraptor on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:01PM (#12251657)
Just treat it like google, or AWS - you're not going to use all their services and you don't need to. The things I'm using I'm really happy with.

Email just works. No thrills there. Using a custom domain.

Invoicing is pretty simple and I like that tracking payments and payment processors are integrated.

Docs are pretty good. They allow both storing files in arbitrary structure and tagging them at the same time. There's a phone app which I used once or twice and it's ok.

In general, I like it. It supports 2FA. If they let me pay for the service I would (5 users minimum, there's no cheap single-user subscription). It's kind of like an office suite - you're not going to praise how great it is, there are some obscure issues out there, but it works year after year for me and I'm happy to use it. While it may have happened, I can't remember any outage of their service.

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by tdash on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @01:50AM (#12252850)
I moved from Zoho to Fastmail last December when their continuous outage almost ruined my job search process.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by collinmanderson on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:39PM (#12251558)
I first heard of them in 2007, so they've been around a while. I haven't used their products much though.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by r3bl on Monday August 08, 2016 @04:46PM (#12250748)
Pretty happy custom domain + free Zoho mail user. 25 free users with 5 GB of email storage each is a pretty amazing deal you get without paying a dime.

Although, to be perfectly honest, I don't use any other product offered by Zoho.

Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by godzillabrennus on Monday August 08, 2016 @04:12PM (#12250547)
You can use a custom domain using a personal gmail account if you forward email to the gmail account from the registrar and then setup send mail as using gmail.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by scrollaway on Monday August 08, 2016 @04:49PM (#12250767)
If you're using Gandi (a registrar I would strongly recommend), you can set this up from your Gandi domain dashboard: Click "Manage mailboxes" and create a forwarding address. Example: https://i.imgur.com/qRmho7J.png - The MX values for your domain need to be Gandi's default email servers.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by curiousgal on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:00PM (#12251393)
Too bad they only support SSL ports 110 and 995 when setting up POP3, my registrar uses 465.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by davidandgoliath on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:39PM (#12251559)
Seems rather odd — 465 is for outgoing mail (SMTP). 110/995 are for incoming pop3.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by tirefire on Monday August 08, 2016 @04:10PM (#12250538)
You have to be careful with that. If an attacker can gain access to your DNS provider, then they have access to your email: à la https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by viraptor on Monday August 08, 2016 @08:07PM (#12251685)
And if they get into your email account on gmail, you lose your email account. (possibly permamently) Just evaluate and choose your risks.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by clinta on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @11:06AM (#12255016)
Just beware of trying to use this as your main google account. You will be waiting months or years for new features that become available to @gmail.com users.
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by summarite on Wednesday August 10, 2016 @09:53AM (#12261711)
I'm a Google apps 10-users-free legacy user from when it was free, what am I missing? I'm using inbox since the moment it came out, not sure what else there should be?
Re:Moving 12 years of email from GMail to FastMail by rudedogg on Monday August 08, 2016 @04:50PM (#12250776)
Also, you can add email aliases - even for other domains. This is how I have my email setup. For $5 a month it's worth it for me.