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> I strongly suspect that very few people would be willing to > pay what it would cost to build and run a service like > GMail without ads.

What do you think the problem would be? I'm using Fastmail now, and not missing anything from Gmail. All for $50 / month.

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I tried Fastmail last year and maybe my impressions are out of date but it can't compete on features at all. The web interface is stone age compared to gmail, search is far slower and less sophisticated, spam filtering was not as good etc. No native apps are available for mobile.

Fastmail isn't bad but I don't consider them to be in the same league.

Zimbra was a good alternative, but yahoo bought it and crapped it out

The new Fastmail webmail interface is actually massively on-par with Gmail. It's very slick and I'd encourage everyone to give it a(nother) go.

Personal account costs 4.95$ / year. What kind of premium account do you have to pay 50$ / month for?

Ooops, sorry, make that per year. I've got the plan with 10GiB storage, many (unlimited?) aliases, etc. The tech. support is very impressive too.

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