I switched to Fastmail from Google Apps email. It didn’t take too much effort.
Fastmail costs money. For the amount of email I have, it’s $40/year for fast IMAP with solid spam filtering. The search feels as fast as on Gmail. So far, I’m using it with iOS Mail and Postbox.
I was surprised by Fastmail’s terrific IMAP importer, which gobbled up 116,000 messages (and folders) from my existing account, without any duplicates. I’d expected to do a long, local transfer through Thunderbird, but instead I just made an app-specific password to the Google account and let Fastmail do the rest.
I kept the Google account, since it’s free-for-now. I just removed Gmail as one of the domain’s apps. Calendars and docs and Drive are all intact.
While I miss Boomerang, I’m going to give Followup.cc a try.
My address remains the same and I remain as unlikely to reply in a timely fashion.
