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We are using fastmail as well, and it is great. They have a solution for every weird mail-problem we tried to solve, i.e. shared inbox folders, shared calendars and integration with "dump" client applications.

For example your username might differ in order to access a shared calendar.

Also you can generate application passwords for an account. So you can create an SMTP-only application password for your fastmail account.

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Oh. And personally I am using mailbox.org which is also nice but a little bit cheaper. And the feature-set is still great, but limited compared to FastMail. Also the webui in mailbox.org is slower than for fastmail.

one nice thing about mailbox.org is that you can have them encrypt incoming email with PGP. Allows you to use IMAP and get protonmail/tutanote-esque security... I really like it :)

I'd recommend Posteo [1] and Mailbox [2] to people mainly for the costs. They're cheap and are a lot more flexible in pricing as your needs grow.

Fastmail becomes terribly expensive once you realize you need multiple accounts (not just aliases) for different people in the family. At least for me, paying a few hundred dollars on Fastmail (or anywhere else) for email is really way too expensive. I've also written to Fastmail asking for flexible pricing options, but they responded that they're not even considering any changes on pricing/flexibility for the near future.

Edit: If one doesn't need custom domains and office suites, I'd recommend only Posteo! That company is way ahead of others in being better for all humans (read on their website about all the things they do).

[1]: https://www.posteo.de

[2]: https://www.mailbox.org

I used Fastmail until I found that they have a hardcoded limit of 128 IMAP flags per mailbox. I switched to G Suite - they have no such limitation.

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