Ask HN: I want to divorce Google for mail. Recommendations on hosting providers?

Re:Ask HN: I want to divorce Google for mail. Recommendation... by read_wharf on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @07:13AM (#3792412)

I migrated from fastmail.fm, very happy with it. I don't know what plus addressing is.

I have also used pair.com for my email in the past, they do a very good job of that.

I'm not aware of an email provider, other than google, that also does calendar synch. That's frustrating because it's such a natural fit, even though the two techs are different.

You could consider a shared hosting account on pair.com, and install/run your own calendar.

Edit: I think google must be fastmail's best source of new customers.

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Re:Ask HN: I want to divorce Google for mail. Recommendation... by akulbe on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @07:37AM (#3792474)

Plus addressing is as follows: assume your email address is [email protected].

If you send an email to [email protected], you'll still get the email in your Inbox, but you can make rules that allow you to send stuff addressed to +something to specific folders. It's great.

I thought it was just a Gmail thing, but it's part of one of the email RFCs.

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Re:Ask HN: I want to divorce Google for mail. Recommendation... by read_wharf on Tuesday April 03, 2012 @07:43AM (#3792491)

Cool. I just tested that on my fastmail address and it works. [email protected]

Even cooler, I don't use my fastmail address, I use my own domain and point it at fastmail, and that still works. [email protected]

Edit: none of those are real addresses. :)

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