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Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted... by merlinscholz on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:52AM (#25121462)
Is there any reason to switch to fastmail from an Microsoft 365 business account? Microsoft offers mail, 1tb cloud storage and more for essentially the same price.
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Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted... by tallanvor on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:31AM (#25124877)
Not that I can see. Both lets you setup multiple domains and aliases. Since Fastmail's datacenters appear to be in the US (New York region and Seattle), they'll end up falling under the same laws as Microsoft.

Theoretically you might save a bit with Fastmail - it seems like you can have 1 standard account that is $5/month and owns the domain and then other basic accounts at $3/month that have an alias for the domain, but I don't know how that works in practice. For a large family the savings could add up.

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Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted... by jdndbfbf on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @09:58AM (#25124395)
Privacy
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Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted... by merlinscholz on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @12:35PM (#25126668)
The US government still can get your data from fastmail, since it's an US based company
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Re:Ik.me: a free email address for life developed and hosted... by tzs on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:15PM (#25129143)
They are an Australian company. It does have US servers, though.
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