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I also moved to Fastmail years ago. I used to think it would be hell to migrate a service as essential as email, but it basically took a repointing of DNS and running Fastmail's importer. It took half an hour and I've been a super happy user ever since, and I couldn't believe how bloated Gmail felt after trying Fastmail.

I use Google for ~15 years now (own domain) and I appreciate the let me use what is today GSuite for free.

Moving to fastmail would be a possibility but they do not have a calendaring system.

Huh? FastMail has had a fully-featured calendar for years.

They do have one, I can't comment on the quality of it since I never used it (I also never used Google Calendar) but it's there.

The thing keeping me from switching away from Gmail is the lack of IMAP IDLE on iOS. I can’t believe Apple still refuses to implement it in 2018...

I see a FastMail app on the App Store but from the screenshots it looks pretty bad (is it just a web view?)

FastMail supports native iOS mail push notifications for mail.app. That caters my usecase.

There are other general-purpose mail apps on the app store. I'm partial to outlook.

Another good reason to drop iOS from your workflow.