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Comment by ishanjain28 | Hacker News Reader

What luck!

I have been trying to move away from Zoho. I tried protonmail for the last month but it's not for me. E2E is great but the loss in functionality is a bit much.

I switched to fastmail today but I have ran into some issues there as well[1] and so far I have seen a lot of recent reddit posts criticizing the extremely slow response time(2+ days) in support tickets. So, now I am not sure if fastmail is a good option.

Migadu has been recommended to me in the past, maybe I should try that out

[1] https://reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/m4rj0g/_/h3tq036/?con...

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Mind if I ask why you're moving away from Zoho? I've been debating moving my email to Zoho since they offer a cheap $12/year plan.

I might just move everything to iCloud+ when they start supporting custom domains this fall since $1/mo for 50GB seems pretty reasonable.

1. Huge email deliverability issues. Quite a few emails just get lost somehow. Just today, someone forwarded a book and hours later I still haven't received it.

2. Terrible, Inconsistent UI.

3. Push notifications are broken and Their apps are broken. I dont get notifications in clients configured with IMAP and their apps also dont send notifications. I have to manually refresh in both cases.

4. Relatively minor issue but I am against Zoho's founder's political alignment, and that is putting this issue mildly.

Just another data point.

I had great delivery with zoho for year even use their free plan. They used to offer SMTP/IMAP on their free tier few years ago and continue to granfathering those my account.

If you like consistent UI then no one can beat gmail. Even fastmail/protonmail/outlook cannot beat gmail in UI/UX to me.

Stay away from iCloud is my advice. Their proofpoint spam filtering is the worst to deal with. Lots of people are going to have trouble reach iCloud inbox.

Anything but not iCloud. That isn't their primary business and consider level of Apple support and randomly ban/block people out of iCloud(you will find some here), I would advice against using them.

Give zoho I tried. They are very reliable, their spam filtering isn't as good as gmail so sometime legitimate emails go to Spam but that's a problem with any mail provider. Time to time you have to train spam system. Especially if you got a lot of email from people with a new domains email you first time. New domains that are created within 7 days and send out email are more likely to be flagged.

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