Re:Fastmail: Increased storage quotas and other service leve...
by josteink on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @08:10AM
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I switched and was very happy with it. The webmail felt much leaner and faster than anything Google has offered these last years.
That said, it's not a switch without cons:
1. Calendar/Contact management. Still not built in to the service (although fastmail say they are working on it), so until then you will need something to double for that in. I double up and use Baikal[1] for CardDAV and CalDAV and it works for me.
But even with that in place you need to import your contacts and they wont get auto-synched to your device when you start emailing new people.
Get on it, fastmail! ;)
2. Fastmail does not offer any proprietary Google/Gmail or MS/Exchange protocol-support. This means that you will need to use IMAP to hook up, and not all IMAP clients supports push-email. This includes the built in Android mail-client.
3. Not accessing mail over webservices and http/https, you may find some corporate firewalls blocking you from checking your email. This is super-easy to forget! In that case, OpenVPN mobile is your friend.
Apart from that, I made the switch and I'm very much happy about it.
That said, it's not a switch without cons:
1. Calendar/Contact management. Still not built in to the service (although fastmail say they are working on it), so until then you will need something to double for that in. I double up and use Baikal[1] for CardDAV and CalDAV and it works for me.
But even with that in place you need to import your contacts and they wont get auto-synched to your device when you start emailing new people.
Get on it, fastmail! ;)
2. Fastmail does not offer any proprietary Google/Gmail or MS/Exchange protocol-support. This means that you will need to use IMAP to hook up, and not all IMAP clients supports push-email. This includes the built in Android mail-client.
3. Not accessing mail over webservices and http/https, you may find some corporate firewalls blocking you from checking your email. This is super-easy to forget! In that case, OpenVPN mobile is your friend.
Apart from that, I made the switch and I'm very much happy about it.
[1] http://baikal-server.com/