[EdLUG] Recommendation request: email service

[Jeremy Nicoll]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, at 13:36, Tai Kedzierski wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Wondering if anybody has tried (and somewhat tested?) any email 
> providers as alternative to Gmail?

I have accounts with two providers:

   andrews&arnold   aaisp.net

   fastmail            fastmail.com  (a company who only do email)

and am happy with both.    My own domain's emails are handled
by aaisp, but I have other more generic addresses, handled via one
of the many fm-owned domains, at fastmail.

aaisp's webmail service is roundcube, and not particularly update.
I've been pursuing a problem with that with them and am currently
using a test server there rather than their normal customer-facing 
ones, to see if they can find out why - suspicion at the moment is 
that my many hundreds of filter rules are causing something to time
out.

Fastmail's webmail system is proprietary and evolving.  It is very 
fast.  FM's engineers also contribute to development of things like
roundcube, and also the upcoming new standard to replace imap.

 
> The one I come away with thinking I'd try is runbox.com since I'd in 
> theory be able to use its IMAP/SMTP functions for personal 
> notifications once again (Google has crippled this, of course.)

There's a useful forum at  http://www.emaildiscussions.com/
where in particular there's subforums dedicated to both fastmail
and runbox.



-- 
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.