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Was looking for a Gmail alternative, several months ago, and had to pick between these two.

I went with Fastmail and am very happy.

Tons of aliases that are easy to use, the UX is actually _much better_ than Gmail.

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Same here. I switched to Fastmail from Gmail a few years ago and it’s absolutely fantastic. The app is great, no AI magic, things just all work exactly as they should.

About the only thing I dislike about Fastmail is there's no equivalent to gmail's "unread-first" view. IE show unread messages first, in reverse-chronological order, then all read messages, in reverse-chronological order.

Two tabs, one with the unread filter selected?

Not exactly the same, but close enough for my use. I usually run 2-3 tabs 1.inbox, 2.lists, 3.someothercriteria

I miss that somewhat too, but settled for adding a saved search for is:unread, which is good enough for when I want to clear out older unread mail.

Seconded about Fastmail. I use it to host mail on my own domain. I’m almost done migrating from Gmail to Fastmail.

I recently discovered their alias feature. It’s super useful for all those subscription things.

Same. I have a wildcard alias, and all my logins use different email addresses. Super useful to tell if some service gets hacked or otherwise leaks email addresses.

I use Fastmail as well. I'm totally fine with the web version but the app really needs some more love and improvements.

I agree. I really wish they had a native app instead of a wrapper of the web app.

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