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FastMail(.fm) costs $19.95 per year with 1 GB of storage and $39.95 with 10 GB of storage. And no ads, no NSA etc.

Stop complaining. Change provider.

From the Fastmail thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6070070

Fastmail has servers in the United States (https://www.fastmail.fm/help/overview_about.html), which means the NSA can still request access to those servers.

I work for FastMail. We (Opera Software Australia) are an Australian company, subject to Australian privacy laws regardless of the location of our servers. We legally must only respond to Australian law enforcement agencies with valid Australian warrants (summary of the law is available here: https://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Privacy/tia.html).

What happens if your hosting company gets an NSA request to access your servers?

Being Australian probably makes it easier on the NSA, not harder. They're allowed to spy unfettered on foreigners.

I thought that the NSA was grabbing all data going through the cables at large ISPs so that they don't need to send requests at individual companies? For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

What leads you to believe that the NSA isn't monitoring FastMail?

The article was about intrusive advertisements not who is or isn't monitoring which email providers. Switching to fast mail solves the problem the article was complaining about!

dotcoma's comment however, claimed "no NSA etc". While it's not pertinent to this article, I think pointing out spurious claims (which people might be believing and acting on) has value regardless.

But dotcomas comment was claiming "No NSA".

Rackspace Mail is $2/mo/mailbox. That gets you a 100% uptime SLA, 25GB storage, configurable daily backups and 24/7/365 phone/chat/mail support.

http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/

Price is kinda misleading. It requires to add Microsoft Exchange (+10$ per month) or buy 5+ mailboxes

Almost certainly NSA'd, their SLA is along the same line as Google's (i.e. your compensation for critical email going down is an absolute pittance), not sure why I should be handling the backups.

Nice support, though. One thing that Rackspace is really, really good at.

Or Google Apps for $50 per year with 30GB of storage. No need to change platforms.

I read information there, instead of complaint. It's just like we live in the city and there are many ads on the road. Ads in Google Mail, so far, are not so annoying as other free email provider did.

Or use Namecheap Email Hosting which is free for the first year and beginning at $2.99/year (3GB) after that.

It uses Open-Xchange as the web UI.

Another option, Lavabit is $16 for 2 years.

$19.95 for 1gb of storage? Never thought I'd consider $1.66 / month to be a rip off.

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