Stories like this are why I didn't pick gmail for this service, which would have otherwise been my first choice.
1. Arch Linux.
2. OpenSmtpd.
3. SpamPD
4. DkimProxy
5. Dovecot
This replaced a Postfix stack that I was using. I miss the use of Postgrey, the greylisting daemon, and I seem to get more spam because of this.
I'm still in the process of trialling new providers. I'll be using fetchmail along with my existing procmailrc. The part I'm outsourcing is the spam filtering and availability on the MX.
A while back I set up email using my personal domain using Google Apps after discarding the idea of managing the while thing on a vps and after checking out a few providers like Protonmail. It basically came down to price and convenience; Google was on par with others for price and I really like the Inbox interface.
This article might scare me enough into trying again anyway, but if I can find any replacement for reminders (Fastmail or otherwise) that's as nice to use I'll jump over so fast.
While we're on the topic of wishlist items: I'd love to have sync in the app. It sucks not being able to access any emails when I don't have internet (on the subway or a car/train in some remote area, even in some shielded buildings, etc). It would be fantastic if I could tell it to store the last two weeks' emails (possibly even per-folder, "store all in folder X, last week in Y, last month in Z"). That's the feature I miss most from your app.
Other than that, keep rocking :) FastMail is awesome!
Besides, I'm the one he directly replied to, and I'm not complaining. Why do you care?
I've really enjoyed fastmail so far. Their UI is intuitive (after the first few days), and the service is very fast and stable.