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I've just moved, and it's great. Import is fantastic (I migrated 14GB of email) and I've used Dmarcian to monitor and confirm everything is perfect on the SPF, DKIM front. Spam initially got through, but once trained it's been flawless I've personally abandoned labels for folders as I used barely 10 labels in Gmail and seldom added more than one, but they do support labels if you want that. It's great for wildcard email and aliases.

I've moved the calendar over too via Google takeout for the individual .ics files. On Android I use DAVx5 to keep using the Google calendar app (point it at your fastmail account and it will display in Google calendar).

For Drive I've moved to syncthing and am using a Synology NAS as my always online master copy, but each of my computers has a copy. I also installed libre office on my laptop.

And I'm keeping a Gmail account just for Android backup and app purchases, etc.

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I would love to hear more about your Synology NAS setup if you don’t mind.

It's a slightly older Synology 1817+, 8 bay, all filled with smaller older drives... 24TB RAID6. It's powered by a UPS and I set it to put the disks to sleep to reduce power consumption.

That's the basics... Beyond that, everything is disabled that was shipped with it except Windows and Apple file sharing locally.

Then I've installed the SynoCommunity version of SyncThing.

I have multiple users in the house and each person has a folder on the NAS which is their home network share and only accessible to them (and me as server admin)... things like Time Machine will have this as their backup drive and they can also dump larger files there. Within each person's network share is a directory that is mapped to SyncThing. On each of their laptops their folder is also on a local SyncThing. This means there's a shared folder on their laptop and network share which SyncThing will keep in Sync when off of the LAN, and when on the LAN they can use any computer to access the folder via network. But mostly, locally on their laptop they just work on local files and don't have to think about how it all keeps in sync.

Finally I make a cold backup once a month to an 18TB HDD USB drive which I store outside of the house except for this once per month task. This is backup via rsync.

That's it. Fairly simple. I only use a NAS for file storage and SyncThing, nothing else.

how good is their spam filtering? it’s been years since i had to worry about it but i really have no desire to go back to something hacked together.

I moved to Fastmail last year. Their spam detection is very good from my experience, I have not received any spam, other than marketing "spam" from services I signed up for. Even then, I would ballpark most of those end up in spam. I am also a big fan of their relatively new Masked Email feature[0].

[0]https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/4406536368911-Ma...

It's excellent. Sometimes gives a few false positives which I have to move out of the spam folder, but it's right 99.99% of the time.

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