I have used Fastmail for years with a custom domain without a single problem. Amazingly great communications from the company too. Highly recommended but not free. (Less than $2/month though - so almost free.)

I’m doing this in the coming days — setting my custom domain with Fastmail. I’m planning on making that my main email and trying my best to unsubscribe from things on my Gmail account and move accounts over from Gmail to Fastmail until I think for certain I could delete my Google account entirely with no harm.

Then again, I rarely have and like having subscriptions these days because of minimalism but I suppose this is a good trade off for my entire lifetime.

On a different note, does anyone know how GoDaddy is in terms of privacy? Is there a better domain registrar out there?

Edit: Just realized I’m using Google’s Project Fi on my iPhone SE, with Hangouts.

I generally don't trust GoDaddy, but I don't see how they could violate your privacy. From what I can tell, the worst they could do would be to log DNS queries. If you have a server with a static IP, you can always serve DNS yourself.

Out of curiosity, what domain registar do you use? With GoDaddy, I pay $14.99/yearly for .COM Domain Renewal and $9.99/yearly for Private Domain Registration Renewal. It seems a bit price-y but I'm completely unaware of other competitor's prices.

I use Namecheap, but it's not the cheapest. A couple months ago on a thread here in HN a bunch of people were recommending Porkbun, which seems quite cheap (~$9/year with free private domain), but I've never used them.

I think half of my comments on hacker news are how much I love Fastmail, which I've used for email, calendar, and contacts for a decade now.

Haha, I just came here to post how could they write that article without mentioning Fastmail.

I need to use my account more, though. So helplessly locked into my Google account for sign ups everywhere.

Perhaps I ought to read that "The Psychology of Dread Tasks" article that is also trending now.

Aww, shucks :) Thanks.

Does Fastmail have decent search that works on mobile? Gmail’s search is just too good. I’m currently using mailbox.org but it’s impossible to search for old emails that are not already downloaded to your phone. The only way is the use web interface and it’s annoying as hell.

Yes, the same search is available in either our app or from any web brower on mobile. We use the Xapian search engine.

It looks much the same either in brower or app. Here's what it looks like on my phone:

https://imgur.com/a/407HN81

They have a hybrid mobile app, it's not as smooth as a native one could be, but as far as I'm concerned search works perfectly.

Are you sure about that price? It looks like it’s $50 per year allowing for custom domain, $30 without.

I paid $117 for the 3-year plan with custom domain (and that price is discounted slightly from the normal 3-year price), which comes out to $3.25 per month. So, definitely not under 2 dollars, but easily under 4.

Ah I see, it doesn’t look like there’s a 3 year option anymore. Thanks for the info!

I just logged in to check and the option is not gone:

https://i.imgur.com/4gcnqzg.png

Thanks again!

I don’t yet have an account, so was going off the pricing listed on their website. Good to know there are more options.

I don't think this pricing is active per https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/member.html

I signed up and I only see the same plans as on the pricing page