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8 Oct 2018, 04:30 PM | #391 |
The "e" in e-mail
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Location: USA
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UUGGHH I hope not!
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5 Nov 2018, 03:02 AM | #392 |
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Was indeed a spammer - banned.
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18 Jan 2019, 08:02 AM | #393 |
Junior Member
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Location: Salem, Oregon, USA
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Satisfied, long-time member
I've been a Fastmail user almost since Day 1, and a paying subscriber for around 15 years. Even though Gmail has now overtaken FM in terms of ease of use and features, there is one thing that keeps me coming back to FM for my personal email provider:
Unlimited email addresses. Using the format <anyname.folder@username.fastmail.com>, I'm able to give each company I do business with an email that is completely unique to them, which then gets filed into its own folder. This has saved me numerous times when there have been hacks and data breaches, and my email gets sold to spam/scam artists, who begin flooding my inbox with scams. I know immediately which company gave away my information (since they are the only ones to have that email address), and it takes all of 10 seconds to create a rule to forever block any messages to that email. It's a feature that is incredibly useful, and I'm surprised that more people don't use it. |
18 Jan 2019, 01:31 PM | #394 | |
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Location: Walla Walla, WA USA
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Since your username is part of the address, anyone that wanted to could send you emails to BOZO@username.fastmail.com or replace bozo with thousands of other names that you don't have complete control over. To keep from totally polluting my FM account, I created some FM aliases and use those in my generated email addresses. If I should get unwanted mail to random addresses as I described, I could kill the alias. That means I'd have to first changes all the addresses that I want to keep. I'd love for FM to create a real disposable email address tool around this concept (And I'd pay extra for it!). Until then I also use Sneakemail and E4ward which give me the complete control I feel this concept requires. (Note, Sneakemail has shut down new user signups for some time. No idea if they will ever be restarted. This is part the reason I also use E4ward; in case Sneakemail shutsdown.) |
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10 Aug 2019, 09:51 AM | #395 |
Cornerstone of the Community
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Location: Tacoma, WA
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My solution is to use my own domain, with mail servers hosted at FM. So, the emails I make up are in the form <amazon@mydomain.com>, <paypal@mydomain.com> etc. I’m not exposing my FM email address.
I’d say I’ve been doing this for over a decade now, and in my Sieve rules I must have 50 or so email addresses that are sent directly to the trash heap (more accurately, they are deleted silently). Works like a charm! |
2 Dec 2020, 01:41 AM | #396 | |
The "e" in e-mail
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Rather than responding to the testimonials thread, and a post someone made almost 20 years ago, why don't you go to the forum below, and start a new post clearly describing the problem you are having. There's a great community that'd love to help you. http://www.emaildiscussions.com/forumdisplay.php?f=27 |
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2 Dec 2020, 01:46 AM | #397 | |
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8 Nov 2021, 10:00 PM | #398 | ||
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That feature alone is makes FastMail worth it for me. |
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15 May 2023, 08:27 AM | #399 |
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Fastmail fan after 10 days
Hi all - I recently started my 'degoogle' journey (well, half a journey at least). I stumbled over Fastmail, tried it now for 10 days in various situations and all the functionality I need. Created a detailed documents with feature description, pros & cons. I love it!!! Signed up for three years. Got myself a trash domain for random online sites. Aliases are fantastic. The whole UX I like much better than Gmail - I'm a Gmail poweruser, having been with them since the inception, using it at work since a decade as well. FM has a much better flow for me, and the functionality is top notch. There's a few minor things I don't like, most importantly the calendar integration (to be fair, Google is to blame here as well not allowing to easily share with non Google users etc.).
On the whole privacy topic: I don't mind it. Yeah, maybe the government or someone else will get a warrant and be able to read my emails. So be it, if that's the case, I'm anyway in serious trouble and should never have used email. I honestly don't care about that. PGP I don't care about either, it only helps if my contacts support it as well. So yeah, that's my personal view. What I worry about is Google soaking up all the info they can about me (that I gave them 'willingly'), and it being shared with other parties I don't know about. Next I'll be looking into Sieve, RegEx filters etc. ... |
15 May 2023, 09:49 AM | #400 | |
The "e" in e-mail
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Welcome to the club. |
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15 May 2023, 12:17 PM | #401 | |
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I joined the FM family in 2004. Still one of the best services.
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15 May 2023, 12:38 PM | #402 | |
The "e" in e-mail
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Welcome to EMD!! |
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15 May 2023, 04:44 PM | #403 | |
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I tried creating xxx.folder@customdomain.com but it anything sent gets delivered to the FM Inbox instead. Even with xxx.folder@username.fastmail.com it doesn't work (gets Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender). If this works I would like to replace my current method of using xxx@sub.customdomain.com because the latter (subdomain catch-all) is not adoptable by, say, a new email service in case I'm migrating out of FM. |
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16 May 2023, 02:57 AM | #404 | |
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Subdomain addressing still works
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17 May 2023, 01:14 PM | #405 | |
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