Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider

Re:Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider by RexRollman on Monday November 10, 2014 @06:05PM (#8587221)

Fastmail would probably be a good suggestion.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider by cissou on Monday November 10, 2014 @06:11PM (#8587244)

So I assume it would be their $40/year plan as I need to use a custom domain. I've never heard of them before; did you use them? Happy/any feedback?

Edit: apparently they also have "family" and business plans, which seem more suited, but without trials.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider by jfb on Monday November 10, 2014 @06:39PM (#8587373)

I've been with them for years and I can't remember a single outage longer than minutes. I'm sure they've had them, but in my experience, Fastmail is 100% reliable, and will continue to get my money until they prove otherwise.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider by cissou on Monday November 10, 2014 @07:08PM (#8587486)

sounds like what I'm after. Have you had the chance to benchmark it with anything over the years? I'm just curious about the competition at this point

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider by jfb on Monday November 10, 2014 @07:12PM (#8587502)

It's always worked for my purely IMAP workflow, so I've never bothered trying anything else. It's my personal mail, so I never really end up sending or receiving LARGENUM mails through them.

Personally, I don't notice a difference between them and my work IMAP servers, which have been Google Apps and some Oracle thing.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a good POP3/IMAP provider by feld on Monday November 10, 2014 @09:27PM (#8587943)

Another vote for Fastmail. The best provider in the industry.

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