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I would highly recommend protonmail.

I am surprised with the top comments recommending fastmail. Is there any offering or feature I should know about with fastmail compared to protonmail premium?

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I was on Protonmail before switching to Fastmail. Happy with both, but I do have a couple issues with Protonmail:

1. I remember the webui being really slow. Maybe because it was hosted in Europe? This was a couple years ago. Fastmail has one of the best/fastest web apps I've ever used.

2. I'm still paying Protonmail because their export tool doesn't support Linux and so far I can't be bothered.

3. Not being able to use different clients is a bummer. Obviously it's because of their encryption which is nice but overkill for my needs.

Makes sense, thanks for explaining. I just use the webui so works for me fine.

the main issue I have with protonmail is that it locks you out, basically if you wanna move away from it, you can't just fwd the incoming emails

What prevents you from forwarding mail?

Short answer: everything is encrypted. So they could forward it in theory, but it would be unusable downstream anyway. The way you'd have to do it is set up the decryption email bridge on a client and set up some manual forwarding after that on the client side.

Happy proton user that doesn't need this feature, but gets why it would be frustrating for others who want a clean way to move off if they decide to.

I thought their Sieve filter supported forwards, but it doesn't.

Perhaps using a custom domain would be best if you might need that.

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