Re:Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
by meese_ on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:26PM
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Have you tried Fastmail? I switched to them a while ago and haven't looked back. Their web UI isn't as nice, but they have an honest business model with a much better privacy policy and migrating is pretty straightforward.
Re:Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
by danieldk on Sunday February 09, 2014 @02:52AM
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Their web UI isn't as nice,
I like their web UI better than GMail. It is cleaner than GMail and much faster most of the time. It's also worth noting that they now have a beta version of a calendar (with CalDAV) support:
http://blog.fastmail.fm/2014/01/23/calendar-now-available-on...
And they are apparently working on CardDAV.
Re:Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
by msh on Monday February 10, 2014 @03:20AM
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I have a fastmail account, it is worse than gmail in these respects:
- the spam filter is not very effective. I have marked as spam a certain kind of spammy newsletters many times but they still come throught.
- No calendar or contacts you can sync to your phone.
Re:Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
by stock_toaster on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:43PM
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Another anecdote here -- I also use them and like the service.
Re:Google turns on "Download Gmail Archive" feature
by alextingle on Sunday February 09, 2014 @04:10AM
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In all fairness, every mail server discards mail from some senders. Your junk folder would explode if everything got through.
(1) I don't have a server where I can run my own mail infrastructure -- I don't think my ISP would be happy with me running a mail server off my cable modem). And
(2) I don't trust Outlook.com not to silently discard mail from randomly selected senders (as I believe Hotmail was known to do). Gmail is reliable.
But otherwise, I'm ready. I've already stopped using the Gmail web interface (retaliation for killing Google Reader). And once I'm no longer tied to Gmail anymore, I can switch to a better IMAP client than Thunderbird.