Anyone have opinions comparing Fastmail with Protonmail? I know they're not going for the exact same market, but in the more generic market of "email services for people who don't want to use Gmail" I'd be interested in someone's comparison.
I totally understand why they do that. It's just not for me.
Protonmail on the other hand has OpenPGP encryption that can be used even cross providers (on https://beta.protonmail.com composing an e-mail to Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org> will enable encryption). But they don't support all usual e-mail features like IMAP and SMTP (there are bridges but...).
All of which can be seamlessly connected to the same single account - you can then use rules to distribute the incoming emails as you see fit.
Switched from Gmail some five years ago, I have been happy with the choice every since!
Both with custom domains and aliases on PM for throaway stuff
They're both very good - the upside with PM is privacy while the downside is compatability. Fastmail I just assume my email is archived and read.