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Do not use any that doesn’t let you configure your domain. Never use that one email address @<provider domain> unless they also let you have it or free (like Tutanota does). Just don’t. Imagine it doesn’t exist. No matter how ruthless you are it will be a friction in moving to a different provider.

I will list some:

- http://mailbox.org (I use it; this is my main provider and my personal domain is setup here; they are decent and private; their spam filter is not the best but much better than Gmail’s; other services on their suites are nothing to write home about; its you get what you pay for -- though their new pricing is not much less than other providers; I am on the old pricing and I don’t see myself moving to anything else unless they enforce it. Pathetic support - they simply don’t respond most of the times. Well, I guess you get what you pay for.)

- https://tutanota.com (I use it, not on the domain though - and not really for “public” usage; please know that you just can’t have IMAP access - either use their app, or the web app, no other client - or at least that is how it was last I checked. They are extremely responsible, really good team, keep releasing new features - both for usability and privacy; much better than Mailbox on many aspects)

-https://fastmail.com/ (It’s the “HN Exclusive Favourite”. Too expansive for my usage and that is their first paid tier which is very limited; people swear by their mail client - I have never used it and I doubt I will. I…

Fastmail (https://fastmail.com) | Frontend/Javascript | Melbourne AU | Onsite (eventually) | Full Time

We’re looking for an Email Client Application developer to join the Fastmail team in our Melbourne CBD office (after the restrictions lift - obviously we're all WFH right now!)

Together with the rest of our team, you’ll work on our email services Fastmail, Pobox, and Topicbox. When the vast majority of people get email for free, the reason people choose a paid service is because they value both privacy and a great user experience.

You’ll be working on our best-in-breed mail clients, providing super-fast, powerful access to webmail, calendars, contacts and more. You’ll work with our collaborative team of front- and back-end developers, designers and researchers. Improving our customers’ interactive experience, keeping it secure and a delight to use is what we do, every day.

Our interfaces are built upon our own Overture framework and the new email standard JMAP. It gives us full control from top to bottom to build the right solutions to difficult problems. If you’ve worked with other MVC application frameworks, like Apple’s Cocoa, you should find Overture easy to pick up.

You’ll have the opportunity to work at many levels:

* building features from scratch with our design and product teams

* optimizing and improving existing code

* tracking down and fixing elusive bugs reported by customers

There’s always an interesting new challenge to solve!

Check the full…

Fastmail (https://www.fastmail.com ) | System Engineer | Philadelphia, PA | HYBRID | Full-Time

At Fastmail, we’re bringing the human touch back to email. We have three email services, Fastmail email, Topicbox email lists, and Pobox emailing forwarding.

We’re looking for a System Engineer to keep those services responsive, functional, reliable, and secure. You’ll spend your time hands-on maintaining, improving, and building out the infrastructure that runs our services. For the record, though, our systems are mostly Debian, all self-hosted. You’ll definitely end up working in Bash (and probably a little bit of Perl). (If you’re curious: we also use Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, MySQL, Nginx, Postfix, Consul, Apache, Cyrus, and of course many other things.)

Find more details here: https://www.fastmail.com/about/jobs/2022-system-engineer/

Email us at syseng@jobs.fastmailteam.com to introduce yourself, tell us what interests you in working with Fastmail, and let us know what makes you believe you'd be a great fit here! Send us a resume (as a PDF, please). More importantly, though, have something else to say! Let us know what you’re interested in, what makes the job interesting, and anything else you want to tell us up front.

Hello, primary author of Overture here. Wasn't expecting someone to link to this old site again!

Anyway, a few quick points. Overture is the basis for both the FastMail (https://www.fastmail.com) and Topicbox (https://www.topicbox.com) web apps and really does provide a great basis for building large, performant rich applications. However…

I do not recommend other people user Overture directly at the moment (although you might like to look at the code base for some useful ideas you can steal). We don't currently have the resources to build all the documentation, tutorials and other resources needed to build a community around it, and with that in mind we are currently not committed to non-breaking changes or semantic versioning (we can update our own apps at the same time as any breaking change). We originally open-sourced this when we were part of Opera, mainly so that if we parted ways and needed to build something new, we could still reuse all this code (it couldn't end up as proprietary Opera code!).

I'm happy to answer general questions here however if people are interested.

We use G Suite at work and I'm not a fan of the new calendar design. Material design works nicely on a tiny phone screen but on a 32" 4k display it just seems like there's a lot of unused space. That's probably the ridiculous size of the panel, to some degree, but frankly, I just don't think Google's done a great job of designing desktop user interfaces that aren't search.

For folks interested in avoiding your email provider also being an advertising company, I switched to Fastmail* last year. They've got gmail import and full IMAP push support (something gmail canned years ago).

I'd also love to see other hosted alternatives to gmail. I looked into rolling my own on EC2 but decided I didn't have the expertise to do it "right"

* https://www.fastmail.com/

Fastmail | Philadelphia, PA | Platform/Ops Team Lead | ONSITE | https://www.fastmail.com/

Hey, I'm Rik, CTO at Fastmail. We provide high quality, rock solid email (and contacts, calendars, and more) service. We're big into open standards and open software and contribute to both. Our platform team keeps the servers running at their best, and keeps improving what "their best" means. We need someone to be part of, and lead, that team.

This is us: https://www.fastmail.com/about/

…and I'm particularly keen on our values: https://www.fastmail.com/values/

You can read about the job at https://www.fastmail.com/about/jobs/2020-06-platform-lead/ and apply at platform-lead@jobs.fastmailteam.com