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Fastmail is excellent. $50/year for 25GB storage. Works excellently.

Replying to myself. Someone else mentioned Fastmail. That might be the one I was thinking of? https://www.fastmail.com/

That's so likely to be a phishing expedition that anybody who actually gives them a phone number is being very foolish.

No, when presented with an 'issue' like that, unless there is an absolute emergency in progress and you need to use 'their service', the proper thing to do is become 'very concerned for your security' and eat up a TON of their tech support with a human operator making certain that it is 'safe' to use 'this device' with their service. Get on their actual human tech support with a very costly (to them) presence.

If it's fucking Google, just get a real email account. They're a few dollars a month. Personally, I have chosen Fastmail, there are other good providers as well.

I run my own email server, but if I wasnâ(TM)t able to I would likely use FastMail or ProtonMail.

I'm contemplating subscribing to Fastmail and have specifically looked into their privacy policy regarding NSLs, warrants, etc. Fastmail is in an interesting position legally - yes, they are an Australian company and are subject to Australian laws, but their primary mail servers are located in New York (there's a backup in...Amsterdam?). I'd like to think that they will be safe from the US government accessing your account data, but I don't know how that will hold up to the FBI/NSA if the servers are physically under this bill's jurisdiction. Check out https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html if you're interested.

Since the servers are in the US, they're likely still getting caught up in the NSA's metadata fishing schemes.(Is anyone else bothered by them calling it metadata? IT'S STILL DATA, just not necessarily the contents of the communication)

Fastmail is a far better option. Fastmail is run by guys who truly know what they are doing. I've been a satisfied user for over 10 years. Yes, it costs money. Yes, it's completely worth the small amount you pay to have the best paid email on the planet. You can use their domains or use one of your own with the right plan. I'm not affiliated with Fastmail, just an extremely happy customer.

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FastMail have a very good webmail service. I haven't tried the first or third of your bullet points, but it supports Sieve rules (RFC 5228). (See here.) FastMail's web client has a nice UI for writing Sieve rules, plus you can enter Sieve code directly.

Disclaimer: I use and highly recommend FastMail, but have no other connection to the company.

Also a +1 for Fastmail. I was using Spamcop for over a decade until they spun down services a little over a year ago. I asked them what they recommended and pointed me to Fastmail ( https://www.fastmail.com/ ). Great service for native mail clients, a good online interface, and an informative blog ( http://blog.fastmail.com/ ). Worth the $10 to $40 a year IMHO.

Also a +1 for Fastmail. I was using Spamcop for over a decade until they spun down services a little over a year ago. I asked them what they recommended and pointed me to Fastmail ( https://www.fastmail.com/ ). Great service for native mail clients, a good online interface, and an informative blog ( http://blog.fastmail.com/ ). Worth the $10 to $40 a year IMHO.

I see quite a few people here recommend Gandi. I have to say I've had a really bad experience with them.

My biggest gripe is with their architecture, they have a very inflexible system which dictates that one user account is one entity and that entity's details are the same for each contact of each domain that is applicable. This means that if you want to change some detail for a single contact/domain, you have to create a new user account and transfer the domain to the new account. This transfer process is the normal domain transfer process and can be expensive and bureaucratic, even if you're not actually transferring the domain between people/entities. This is not something that they warn you about beforehand. I made the mistake of not checking that all my details on my domains were exactly the same before transferring them and ended up with five different user accounts!

On the plus side they offer two step authentication (although this didn't work out so well for Fastmail) and are very cheap, especially when you take anonymisation into account.

The coward might laugh at your storage cluster, but I'm laughing too, because I've heard this song before.

And every time I see another one of these, I am reminded why I run standalone replicas with the replication right up at the application level with integrity checks to ensure that a failure in one place doesn't wipe other things.

http://blog.fastmail.com/2014/...

People are right to laugh that a single bad disk can take your site offline for hours because the storage cluster software screwed up. I don't use heartbeat any more, because we found it was LESS reliable than our servers, and we had more downtime because heartbeat screwed up. Clusters and SPOF SANs fall right into the same basket in my mind - a single place where everything breaks.

I feel for your ops team, but like the others - I hope they learn the points-of-failure lesson from this.

No it does not affect Fastmail. I also use it and in fact even if you use an email client instead of webmail, they support full encryption without upgrading through STARTTLS.

See: https://www.fastmail.com/help/...