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Re:Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, ... by tijs on Saturday October 20, 2012 @10:06AM (#4677089)
I'm still looking for a great alternative to Gmail/Google apps for my business email. Something that supports IMAP and has a reasonable webmail front end. Fastmail is the closest thing i've found but this could be a perfectly fine startup which probably simply isn't sexy enough for anything to actually go and do.
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Re:Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, ... by adiM on Saturday October 20, 2012 @11:34AM (#4677292)
Gmail's IMAP implementation is really buggy. No distinction between tags and folders, non sorting done at the server level, etc. Frustrated, I also moved to fastmail two years ago; it is slightly expensive, but is standard's compliant and works flawlessly.
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Re:Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, ... by tijs on Saturday October 20, 2012 @02:21PM (#4677779)
I should have maybe clarified that i too have moved to Fastmail (about a year ago) and am a happy customer. But both the price and the UI leave a lot of room for improvement, i.e. competitors.

And yes moving mail out of Gmail was a pain because of the weird IMAP structure they use.

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Re:Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, ... by adiM on Thursday October 25, 2012 @11:11PM (#4700667)
I always use a local IMAP client (alpine), so am not really bothered by fastmail's rather basic UI.
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Re:Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, ... by Dylan16807 on Sunday October 21, 2012 @09:52AM (#4679698)
I thought gmail didn't have folders; how is it supposed to distinguish the two?
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Re:Google Voice lost my business number. How I got it back, ... by adiM on Thursday October 25, 2012 @11:10PM (#4700663)
IMAP has tags (rather keywords), that you can assign to multiple posts. Just because you assign a keyword to an email, doesn't mean that it should be moved to a new folder. Gmail does that, and therefore breaks IMAP.
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