[jakemauer]

I migrated from Google Workspaces to Fastmail earlier this year and their migration tools made for a smooth transition.

My only big complaint is their woeful spam filtering. I get 1-2 spam emails a day, and I mark each and every one as spam. They're all of the same format; The subject line is something like [Symantec Invoice #431343] with the body being empty and a single .jpg attachment of a fake invoice. The company name and design of the invoice changes but it's always the same pattern.

I've contacted support but they shrugged their shoulders and suggested I just keep marking them as spam.

It's annoying, but I pre-paid for 3 years so I don't quite feel like jumping back to Google.

*Oh I just thought of another gripe that I didn't consider before switching: their calendaring system isn't really that useful for shared calendars unless the other people you want to share with are also Fastmail customers. This seems obvious when you think about it but I take for granted that literally everyone in my life has a Gmail account that I can share calendars with.

[hackmiester]

For what it's worth, I get the EXACT same format of spam, and I am also on Fastmail. It's a minor nuisance. One day I will write a sieve filter to try to catch them, because basically nobody sends invoices that look anything like this. But, no two of them really look the same...

[sethherr]

Thank you. I now will not consider switching to Fastmail.

Also, I don’t trust Australia on encryption.

[klibertp]

Scrolling from the top to this point in comments, Australia+encryption was mentioned 5 times already, and refuted every time... My take: if you want encrypted email, encrypt it yourself. It's less convenient, but at least you know it a) works; and b) will continue to work no matter the jurisdiction and your relationship with the authorities.

[yosito]

Re: spam, this is why you should be using your own domain with wildcard alises. If an alias becomes a target of spam, you can block all mail coming to that alias.

Re: calendars, with Fastmail you can use any calendar you want. I use iCloud for my calendars and just connect it to my Fastmail account.

[doctor_eval]

Yes, I can vouch for this, I have had several shared calendars using fastmail. I use the Mac/iOS calendars daily.

One caveat is that Google calendar can’t subscribe read+write to an iCalendar feed. That’s their problem though. All other clients are fine, including outlook IIRC.

[jakemauer]

I've been doing the wildcard/per-site email thing for a few years now, unfortunately these spam emails are coming to a more generic address that I used to use for everything that I can't quite ditch yet.

Also regarding calendars, can you share that calendar with arbitrary people who don't have Fastmail accounts?

[jakemauer]

Updating to be more accurate, it's more like 2 spam messages a week on average make it through. It's a nuisance for sure and not a dealbreaker but does make me wonder if Gmail would be catching them.

Also I do have to praise their web interface, it's startlingly fast.