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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by tomcam on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:36AM (#49342123)
If you reply to an email, does it use the “primary“ domain name or does it use the same domain it was sent to?
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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by gorgonian on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:49AM (#49342217)
If you have Fastmail configured to send from that domain as well, it will automatically reply from the same address the email was sent to. You can pick which address to send from, of those you have set up.
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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by tomcam on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:36AM (#49344180)
That’s great. Thank you.
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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by grsmvg on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @02:39AM (#49342141)
Primary domain name. You pay for the inbox, not the domain.
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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by scronkfinkle on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @07:25AM (#49344102)
Maybe I am misunderstanding but I don't think this is true. Indeed you pay for the inbox, but it's not the primary domain. You can reply from any of the email addresses you created (which doesn't cost extra) and it automatically sets the FROM to be the email it was received on
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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by dboreham on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @10:46AM (#49346398)
This is indeed how it works.
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Re:An Update on Leaving Gmail for Fastmail by grsmvg on Friday August 21, 2026 @04:53PM (#49393663)
I meant the opposite of what I wrote! I read it wrong
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