Re:From Gmail to Fastmail
by brongondwana on Saturday May 24, 2014 @09:36PM
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We're an Australian company. Everything else you say is accurate enough, though we actually use an Australian payment provider (https://pin.net.au/).
Re:From Gmail to Fastmail
by dueprocess on Saturday May 24, 2014 @11:17PM
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So you don't transact with any US banks? What are you implying?
Re:From Gmail to Fastmail
by brongondwana on Sunday May 25, 2014 @12:33AM
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I'm answering the specific points made about FastMail with the whether they are correct or not.
We don't have an account with a US bank, though we do have an account in USD, and we're an Australian company, not a US company.
Other than that, our main datacentre is in the USA, and obviously if every US bank decided not to allow transactions to our accounts, we would be in trouble. That would be true regardless of whether we billed in USD or AUD.
Would you be willing to run Fastmail.is or Fastmail.com.au or something for some premium over general US fastmail?
That would be great! I'd be happy to pay 1.5 times the current price if my accounts were guaranteed to be hosted in Iceland.
Same here, I think Fastmail should definitely consider hosting their servers in various locations and allow their customers to choose where they want their primary storage to be.
Paying for email service might be a good idea for a lot of reasons, but people have an extremely absurd sense that they're "fighting the man". You know - by paying in US dollars, to a US company, using US banks....
EDIT: Something I did just see is that Fastmail gives you sieve scripting. Since going from hosting my own inbound email to Gmail, I've really missed having a good email sorting language.