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Fastmail[0] is what I use for my personal email. They support all the standards, but are also pushing things forward with standardising the JMAP protocol[1] which is much better suited to mobile clients than IMAP.

They only have email and calendaring though, no equivalent of Drive/Docs/Sheets.

[0] https://www.fastmail.com [1] https://jmap.io

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I have used Fastmail for well over a decade, but they have their servers in the US, so I have been looking at alternatives.

And Australian law doesn't quite offer the same protections as GDPR. In fact, being a Five Eyes country, it's effectively the opposite.

Australian businesses have to provide GDPR protections to EU citizens, regardless, just as EU companies operating in Australia have to obey Australian law.

I also have a feeling the Five Eyes agreement is about to end.

I also have a feeling the Five Eyes agreement is about to end.

That's certainly possible, but as long as the servers are in the US, that's not really meaningful I think?

I am very very happy with Fastmail. I know they have some presence in the US but I think they scaled that down and are entirely an Australian company.

Their integration with 1password and masking email aliases is also very useful [0].

If however you want to host your own emails, I did once write an extensive guide [1].

[0] https://www.fastmail.com/features/masked-email/

[1] https://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/

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