I'm not op, but I switched to fastmail for my family hosting a year ago. I was driven away because of the continual UI changes Google were making. I don't want to re-explain the interface to my mum every three months. Fastmail has nice buttons with words on - when I switched the first conversation I had was "so how do I send an ema… oh there it is!"
Also fastmail is faster! You get email, contacts and file storage. If you are on the $40/yr plan you get caldav support as well. Works very well on all my devices.
Only downside is spamassassin isn't as effective as gmail's spam filters, but I no longer have to cope with mailing lists being marked as spam by the masses who can't work an unsubscribe button.
On that note, you can also write your own seive rules for filtering, and there's the 'if matched stop running filters' option that is so glaringly absent from gmail.
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I'm not op, but I switched to fastmail for my family hosting a year ago. I was driven away because of the continual UI changes Google were making. I don't want to re-explain the interface to my mum every three months. Fastmail has nice buttons with words on - when I switched the first conversation I had was "so how do I send an ema… oh there it is!"
Also fastmail is faster! You get email, contacts and file storage. If you are on the $40/yr plan you get caldav support as well. Works very well on all my devices.
Only downside is spamassassin isn't as effective as gmail's spam filters, but I no longer have to cope with mailing lists being marked as spam by the masses who can't work an unsubscribe button.
On that note, you can also write your own seive rules for filtering, and there's the 'if matched stop running filters' option that is so glaringly absent from gmail.
So I'm a happy customer.