[sedatk]

FastMail is probably the best among the bunch but it's still worse than GMail:

- There is no "always display images from this contact" option if you don't want to load images automatically. You have to click on "show images" every time you read an emai, even from a trusted contact.

- There is no "open mailto: links on FastMail" option on desktop.

- Spam filter is too aggressive. I've missed too many legit mails while trying it.

- Contact list manager is too barebones. There isn't even a "find and merge duplicates" option.

[asdfasgasdgasdg]

They will also delete your data if you stop paying. So, if this got you to quit gmail, fastmail is not your destination.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/accountexpired.html

[cbsks]

You can configure fastmail to show remote images from all your contacts, but it’s all or nothing: https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/remotecontent.html

Is this what you are asking about for mailto links? https://www.fastmail.com/help/send/openemaillinks.html

The spam filter can be customized, but I agree that it isn’t nearly as good as gmail’s. I have it configured to move messages with a score higher than 3.5 to spam which prevents all false positives for me, but 1 or 2 spam emails a week still get to my inbox. https://www.fastmail.com/help/technical/spamchecks.html#cust...

I agree that the comment manager is barebones. Fastmail does support CardDAV so you could use a different contact manager but I haven’t had the need.

Edit: I swear I am not a Fastmail shill. Just a happy customer!

[eins1234]

> There is no "always display images from this contact" option if you don't want to load images automatically. You have to click on "show images" every time you read an emai, even from a trusted contact.

Oh man, this is one feature that I've really missed from Gmail, which actually gives you the best of both worlds by proxying external images from their own servers so images can load automatically without compromising privacy.

Can't blame a small-time email provider like Fastmail from not offering something like this given the resources it'd likely require, but I'm using Microsoft's "enterprise" solution (Exchange Online) and they really have no excuses other than poor prioritization.

Anyone aware of other providers offering this feature?

[nmjenkins]

Fastmail has also proxied all images since 2014: https://fastmail.blog/2014/09/16/better-security-and-privacy...

You can configure images to load always, or just for contacts, or always manually.

[einpoklum]

Most of this stuff is irrelevant once you start using a proper email client.

(except for the aggressive spam filter)