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OK, I'm done.

I need to migrate my email from gmail. It's going to be long and arduous. Suggestions on providers?

Before you ask: No, I do not want to host my own mail.

I recommend fastmail with a custom domain. By using your own domain (not self-hosting) you can migrate to a new provider should you decide you don't like fastmail.

Very much agree on this. It's what made a switch from Google Workspace to Fastmail much easier than it might have been, and gives me confidence that if there's a better alternative to Fastmail I discover later I can jump ship pretty easily.

You'll probably hear this a lot on here, but I'm a happy Fastmail user.

Seconding Fastmail here. Everything just works for a reasonable price.

Before you look at Fastmail or ProtonMail or Tutanota, take a look at (in no particular order), runbox.com, Mailbox.org, mailfence.com and posteo.de (posteo is the only one in this list that doesn’t support custom domains). They’re all cheaper, support IMAP and are hosted in Europe.

Thanks for this. I looked at mailbox.org before picking Fastmail, but their pricing is a bit much for the relatively small amount of storage, and I just want email, not their office platform, which seems to be a core part of their offer. However, I'd rather be somewhere in Europe than Australia (as I am with Fastmail) for privacy reasons, and runbox.com looks interesting. Do you have any experience with reliability for any of those services?

I switched to Fastmail a few years ago and have been quite happy with it. Spam has not been a problem.

Fastmail and protonmail are both solid email providers. And you can use your own domain name with either of them, reducing future friction if you should need to switch providers later.

Fastmail is great, specially for power users. I personally like Hey email because of the unique features it has.

I use iCloud for anything personal (been using it since MobileMe) and Amazon Workmail for anything professional.

iCloud also supports custom domains if you’re paying for iCloud storage. I use this since I was paying for storage anyway.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212514

How did I not know this….

That may be a project at some point to merge the 2. But it’s not a big deal to keep them separate I guess.

Fastmail has been 100% solid and reliable for me for several years.

Another happy, years-long FastMail customer here.

ProtonMail works fine for me.

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