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Fastmail: My Wishes for 2023

8 points by holigot ↗ HN
Hi,

I'm a happy Fastmail user, but there are also a few downsides, which I hope they will change in 2023.

I cannot understand that in 2022 they don't have: - IPv6 - DNSSEC / DANE - DMARC

Hope some or all of the feature will come in 2023.

And one of my biggest downsides is, that they 'only' have their servers within US.

A few years ago they had servers within EU (amsterdam I think) but they ditched it and went US only. Maybe they think about hosting mails within EU (check 1Password - they also do have several datapoints: US/CAN/EU).

What about your pro/cons and wishes?

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Tomte
I'd like to see calendars that can be non-publically shared with (and maybe even written to by) non-Fastmail-Users.
ancarda
I was a happy FastMail customer for years, but lack of IPv6+DNSSEC was also disappointing for me. I eventually heard about Migadu ( https://www.migadu.com/ ) which has all that, and AFAIK, EU servers as well.

The only downside for me is the web UI isn't nearly as polished as FastMail.

holigot
Thx for your feedback. Will check their website. What about real IMAP Push for iOS devices? Does it work, or only every X minutes push like others? (mailbox.org, Fastmail, iCloud Mail do have real IMAP push for iOS/macOS).
ancarda
Sorry, I don't have an iOS device, so I'm not sure. The only mention I could find on the website was: https://www.migadu.com/guides/gmail_android/

> While Gmail is an IMAP client app, it will not check for new mails continuously. Not only it does not support IMAP Push extensions which are standard nowadays, but the [most] frequent polling interval is 15 minutes

Which I guess implies they offer IMAP push, since they're expressing disapproval that the Gmail app doesn't support IMAP push

holigot
Thx. Nothing for me as I need direct push. But thx for the suggestion.