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I migrated my mails from Gmail to fastmail.com two years ago and never looked back. Imported all my google mail, so I did not loose anything. What I love about fastmail is their pure focus on mailing. It’s a beautiful product with many useful features. For instance you can create as many alias names as you like (although I heard there is a limit, but I haven’t hit that yet). I create an alias for any new website I sign up. I also have aliasses that serve as a base-name (for instance mypurchases@fastmail.com) and can be used multiple times like so for instance: amazon@mypurchases.fastmail.com.

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I am also using my personal domain instead of @fastmail.com You never know when / if you need to leave a service provider again, and you don‘t want to change your email address again.

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FastMail is also one of the last providers with a push notification certificate for Mail.app, last I checked - which makes it feel right at home on iOS.

I'm sold. If I pay $3/month can I migrate all of my dozen Google accounts? I have an email for each product in my portfolio and switching back and forth.

I would gladly pay a subscription fee if it means Google isn't reading my emails to sell me ads.

I had four gmail addresses. Imported a ton of emails from these accounts into my fastmail account. The alias feature is something I haven’t seen anywhere else, at least not so polished. Previously I hated signing up with my personal email address on sites I‘d use only once to shop for bicycle parts or whatnot.

can you explain more about the alias feature? what makes it special? Because I think this could be a killer feature as I have that exact same problem when signing up to websites

Very easy: After signup you go to Settings > Users and Aliases. There you see a list of your alias names. And you can create a new one with a click. Underneath the alias name you select which email address to forward to (I manage several email addresses for my family). That‘s it. You can even setup aliasses in a way that you can send messages from them, so they do not serve for receiving emails alone.

Their service is excellent. You get answers from real human beings within 24 hours (unlike trying to get help for Gmail; won‘t work).

damn thats really all I wanted. Just a really easy way to receive, send email from an temporary address that isn't from a free website.

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