[lazyjones]

Exactly, I don't really see the problem in the article. I have a $40/year (15GB) account and apart from my fastmail and my forwarded pobox.com address, I also receive mail for and host DNS records and web pages for 2 other virtual domains. Also, I'm very happy with spam filtering and Fastmail's service quality (they even post on Twitter things like 'mail is slow currently, investigating...').

[colanderman]

Not to mention a federation-friendly XMPP server that supports external domains via SRV records. For this and the features you list, I've also been a very happy FastMail user for the past few years and could never return to the walled garden that is Google.

[mkpankov]

Well, I can't say I'm happy with spam filtering - I regularly get some stupid spam to the inbox (not even something smart enough to bypass the filters, IMO).

[corobo]

I'm at a point with Gmail where I'd be happy that I'm getting a bit of spam in the inbox. Unfortunately I'm starting to see a lot of false positives recently. I was actually looking to move out of Gmail myself

[lazyjones]

I get some spam too (which passes both pobox.com's and fastmail's filtering), but it's much less than I previously had with gmail and I assume that spam has become more elaborate these days. Also, with gmail I had more false positives.