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Another happy fastmail.com customer here. I'd like to point out to those fluffing about the price for fastmail - Google Apps For Business (aka: pay-for-gmail) runs $5/person/month, minimum. It does have additional services (eg: the office-apps), but AFAIK, even the business one doesn't promise that it won't look through your private info. Fastmail does make this promise. There is certainly no way you can run your own email server for $50/yr (or even a few hundred per year), even if the hardware itself were free, and you were not counting the cost of the internet service (eg: using your own home internet), and you were willing to accept that you might fail to update some things, sometimes, etc. If you value your time at all. Even at say, minimum wage. Not to mention the deliverability issues etc. If you just love doing it, then, by all means, do it. Just don't imagine it is somehow less than $50/yr, or comparable in quality. I do wish Fastmail had more competition, even if it cost a bit more, and (as the Fastmail folks here have said) the competition participated in open standards and contributed to open source. I think others are "in the works" particularly with (even more) security/privacy emphasis. But, IMHO, eg: protonmail does not currently directly compete. We'll see what pans out. |
It sure does: https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo...
Because there are no ads in the paid version, (and because they are dealing with hippa/soc2 etc.) They have no need to look at your data.