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Re:Moving Away from Gmail by rakoo on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:20PM (#22844349)
Unaffiliated, I found migadu (https://www.migadu.com/en/index.html) to be extremely easy to set up and having a nice ui to work with. Gives you only the basics but that's all you need.

As they say, storage space is not an issue in the 21st century, so the only differentiator between plans is the only thing that matters: the number of outgoing emails. You can have as many domains, as many aliases and as many addresses as you want, that's not a technical problem so there's no reason it should be a financial distinction.

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by fermienrico on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:45PM (#22844499)
I've tried Migadu and I much prefer FastMail: https://www.fastmail.com

They have full DNS capabilities and very nice UI (minimal JS, loads super fast).

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by adtac on Saturday April 11, 2020 @08:27PM (#22845215)
While I'm happy with fastmail, they aren't minimal JS by any means. The website is snappy though.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by wheresvic3 on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:54PM (#22844539)
I used migadu for a couple of years and they were great initially but over the past 4-5 months, I've experienced really degraded service when accessing email and setting tags, deleting etc.

Over the last month, I started getting login timeouts and that was the last straw. Recently I noticed that they put up an announcement saying that they are running at very high loads due to the COVID-19 situation. I'm not quite sure how people working from home affects normal email (I guess people are emailing a bit more?) but anyways once the announcement went away, I still kept experiencing issues so I migrated my primary email over to fastmail.

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by ekovarski on Saturday April 11, 2020 @10:24PM (#22845634)
They were shuffling services around and I think they had a notice in Feb on their portal to the effect but, yeah, they definitely need to start using a status page and twitter for updates; most customers just want a heads up and be informed of what is happening.

Service is reliable, considering the cost, but communication isn't their forte esp for an email company. :)

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by feistypharit on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:41PM (#22844758)
They did a full UI update and have a bunch of new features. Some are still buggy but support is responsive. Some of the new cool things they have are identities: different logins to send and receive all to the same mailbox, but externally looks different.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by sbuccini on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:57PM (#22844835)
Same experience here.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by sbuccini on Saturday April 11, 2020 @06:56PM (#22844832)
I would caution everyone considering Migadu. My biggest issue revolves around support — they don’t have a public status page so when the service goes down it’s impossible to know if the issue is on my end or on theirs. They're averaged one big outage (~24 hours) a year over the past 3 years, not counting smaller outages, so this isn’t a generic thought experiment. They don’t respond to most of my emails to support, either. Do not recommend.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by bichonnages on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:29PM (#22844992)
In my case, they have always replied to my emails. I think it would be much better if they were actively using their twitter account in order to keep us informed.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by sbuccini on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:44PM (#22845048)
Agreed, or proactively email users when they are experiencing severe degradation
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by bichonnages on Saturday April 11, 2020 @07:27PM (#22844978)
I've been using Migadu for a year now. Multiple aliases, works well. Only problem so far: a service interruption of a few hours "due to the COVID-19 situation" apparently. I haven't lost any e-mails but, to be honest, since I'm paying, I don't know if I'll accept a second interruption for a service I'm paying for.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by jacobroyquebec on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:32PM (#22844425)
I second this, i've been using it for a few years and it's very easy to setup. Reliable and cheap.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by ThePowerOfFuet on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:46PM (#22844502)
> Copyright © 2016 AdVite GmbH

This sounds like an advertising company. A person's inbox is the holy grail of info about them.

I don't think I want to use this company for my email. Change my mind?

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by gpanders on Saturday April 11, 2020 @05:58PM (#22844564)
The company is based in Switzerland and is French speaking. Any chance "AdVite" means something different in French?

Apart from that, their website states pretty clearly their privacy policy [1] and other terms [2]. It doesn't look like there is anything shady going on here.

I don't personally use Migadu but I've had it bookmarked as the "service I would probably use if/when the day comes".

[1]: https://www.migadu.com/en/privacy.html [2]: https://www.migadu.com/en/terms.html

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by ekovarski on Saturday April 11, 2020 @10:20PM (#22845624)
Perhaps they pivoted from inception. There are references in their company registration to advertising and marketing though the entire company plan is /very/ broad and encompassed pretty much any IT/online service.
Re:Moving Away from Gmail by heinrichf on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:53AM (#22846498)
> The company is based in Switzerland and is French speaking. Any chance "AdVite" means something different in French?

No, it doesn't mean something different in French.

Re:Moving Away from Gmail by benhurmarcel on Sunday April 12, 2020 @10:21AM (#22848411)
It doesn't mean anything in French actually. Nothing related to ads either.