FastMail
FastMail is a popular independent web-based paid email service (launched in 1999) that focuses on privacy, used by some folks in the IndieWeb community with their personal domain.
How to
How to migrate from Gmail
Issues
Spam detection
- Spam detection (apparently provided by SpamAssassin) is not up to Gmail standards. I didn't get spam for months at a time on Gmail, receive it daily on Fastmail. Despite obvious similarities between the messages and diligently clicking "Report Spam" Kylewm.com
- 2020-02-23 My experience is different; spam is no more of a problem than elsewhere, possibly less so.
Jeremy Cherfas - ...
History
Fastmail was acquired by Opera in 2010, then spun back out in 2013, when the original developers bought the service back from Opera.[1]
At some point Fastmail acquired Pobox.com and is now planning to finally merge them [2]