Gmail vs Fastmail: Which is best?

Web Marketing & E-commerce

Nov 21, 2018

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Gmail:

Gmail is easy and free to use with a better spam filter, calendar and google drive features. Google drive feature, where you can store your files & documents instantaneously. Gmail has ‘Gmail Chat’ free option which is also known as Hangouts.

Paul Graham (Author, English born computer scientist, entrepreneur) Said, ”Gmail is free & slow, that’s why Google doesn’t want to spend too much money on a free product”.

Gmail includes the native apps along with the likes of MailBox which bring some really useful inbox organization capabilities. This might be the cause but Gmail was not slow earlier, was it? If Gmail can go slow today – for whatever basis – won’t FastMail go slow tomorrow?

Fastmail:

Fastmail is a mail service provides for two-factor login by YubiKey. This company was acquired by Opera Software. FastMail announced that it had divide from Opera and became a privately held independent company. Now Fastmail is a reputed company. Its main servers are located in New York and Amsterdam.

Features of Fastmail

FastMail offers a free email account for mail users with 10 MB mailbox size and IMAP access.

The quick and very much customizable web interface can compete with lots of an email program.

The message editor makes it simple to write both ‘plain-text’ as well as ‘rich HTML’ emails correctly.

You can make flexible custom filters and vacation auto-replies.

FastMail also includes essential protection from spam and viruses.

Complete and enhanced accounts use personal Bayesian filtering.

You can collect multiple emails from other POP and Hotmail accounts.

FastMail includes featured address book completely.

FastMail access and receive messages very fast

It includes a Filter spam and protects you from viruses

It Manages your contacts

You can check out mail from any browser

Fastmail login and sign up is very easy. For those mail users who are unable to sign in to Fastmail account can easily use this mail service. Fast mail is faster with a better support system. Fastmail is an email service by Opera. There is a drawback in this mail service that it doesn’t have any chat function. You could work your way around this and install XMPP/Jabber client on your local machine, but that’s where it split ends.

FastMail has no native apps for Android and iOS, for instance, and one alternative is to use MailDroid. If you had to use MailDroid, you’d still be able to use Gmail on MailDroid and it just works. FastMail has extremely few apps such as Sanebox but it boasts of fast, unobstructed, ad-free, lean HTML pages, and is totally independent of Javascript, cookies, and any other technology. So we can say that Fastmail an actual alternative for Gmail.

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