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A comment on Ask HN: How have you left Google's services?.

Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by conception on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:21PM (#12298469)
Fastmail users: The feature of gmail that seems unstoppable to me is server side search. Using an imap client and doing client side searches with indexes just isn't viable anymore on multi-GB mailboxes. Both the web and app versions can "instantly" search all my mail, ever. How does Fastmail compare in regards to that?
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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by jstayton on Tuesday August 16, 2016 @12:30PM (#12298540)
Their web UI is extremely snappy. Definitely on par with Gmail's web UI, if not faster.

I don't have tons of messages in FastMail — so take that into consideration — but their web UI search seems very quick as well.

I haven't used their mobile app, so I can't speak to that.

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Re:Ask HN: How have you left Google's services? by lorenzhs on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @03:50AM (#12303068)
It's very good. I have ~3GB of email in tens of thousands of messages, about a decade's worth, in my FastMail account. Searching through all of that takes only a second. See https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/search.html for what the search can do.
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