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  • I switched to Fastmail a few months ago and love it.

    My tip is: Start simple.

    1. If you have any other Domains forwarded to Gmail forward them to Fastmail instead.
    2. Forward Gmail to Fastmail (i.e. add as an account including importing old mails). This won’t get you off Google yet, but at least a backup and you can practically stop using Gmail.
    3. For any new registration, use Fastmail (or any of its random emails etc.)
    4. Slowly transition your old accounts.











  • As my app posted the reply as a top comment, here it is again:

    One important thing to take note of is: “Once your personal database has seen more than 200 spam and 200 non-spam emails, we automatically start using it to filter your incoming mail.” This means, before you have received 200 spam emails (or marked them as such), the filter is going to perform significantly worse.

    Personally, initially it was pretty bad compared to Gmail. However, it significantly improved over time. One thing that helps are masked emails (fantastic) - an email you can create, or is even created automatically for you, and then enter at dubious websites. If you get spam, you can simply block the whole email or fine tune it.


  • One important thing to take note of is: “Once your personal database has seen more than 200 spam and 200 non-spam emails, we automatically start using it to filter your incoming mail.” This means, before you have received 200 spam emails (or marked them as such), the filter is going to perform significantly worse.

    Personally, initially it was pretty bad compared to Gmail. However, it significantly improved over time. One thing that helps are masked emails (fantastic) - an email you can create, or is even created automatically for you, and then enter at dubious websites. If you get spam, you can simply block the whole email or fine tune it.



  • Myro@lemm.eetoChat@beehaw.orgKagi gets external funding!
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    1 year ago

    Came here because I just discovered Kagi. On the topic of de-googling, the effort is a fair point. Like the other poster said: Start small. A few months ago I moved away from Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar. After detailed research and trialing, I made the move - the practical part of it took actually surprisingly little time. I’m using Fastmail now, so at least that part Google now has only very limited access to. Might be doing the same with Kagi for search.


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    1 year ago

    Came here because I just discovered Kagi. On the topic of de-googling, the effort is a fair point. Like the other poster said: Start small. A few months ago I moved away from Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar. After detailed research and trialing, I made the move - the practical part of it took actually surprisingly little time. I’m using Fastmail now, so at least that part Google now has only very limited access to. Might be doing the same with Kagi for search.

    Edit: Look like sync won’t let me reply to the right comment.


  • Myro@lemm.eetoChat@beehaw.orgKagi gets external funding!
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    1 year ago

    Came here because I just discovered Kagi. On the topic of de-googling, the effort is a fair point. Like the other poster said: Start small. A few months ago I moved away from Google Mail, Contacts and Calendar. After detailed research and trialing, I made the move - the practical part of it took actually surprisingly little time. I’m using Fastmail now, so at least that part Google now has only very limited access to. Might be doing the same with Kagi for search.