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I discovered Fastmail a few years ago and couldn't be happier. Migrating from Gmail was easy via the import option built into Fastmail.

I'm using a custom domain and pay $5/month for my account.

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I’m also a happy Fastmail customer, but I don’t think $5/mo for 10 accounts is gonna fly for this?

$500/mo < $720/mo… but not near enough cheaper for kids email IMO

10 accounts sounds like there are actually lots of aliases, which would be free.

Regardless, I’m a happy Fastmail user as well, just to add another anecdote.

Yes, Fastmail accounts correspond to the number of users you have. Each user can set up a virtually unlimited number of aliases.

I have also been a happy Fastmail user. Reliable and easy to configure.

$5/mo for 10 accounts is $50/mo in total. I don't know where you got the $500/mo from.

And that is a very reasonable price for a core service like email and not selling you data

You’re absolutely right; I feel exceptionally dumb! Don’t get the downvotes?

I will also second Fastmail as a Google alternative. Does what I need well.

I have encountered a couple minor bugs with the calendar but nothing I would classify as a show-stopper.

First, once in a while when you load the calendar page an event doesn't show up. Refeshing fixes it. Never had issues with events not showing up on mobile, though.

Second, I sync external calendars and sometimes events show up as also being on the external calendar. Weird, but easy enough to ignore.

I personally found that events showing up on the external calendar was much worse than just weird. Every job interview cycle I've gone through using Fastmail has had its own new issue.

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