RJM62
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Geek on the Hill
I need another email address that's not associated with any server I administer nor on the same network as any other third-party email addresses I have. I need IMAP, BlackBerry Push, CardDAV, and CalDAV. I don't need huge storage. I do need webmail "just in case," but I will rarely (if ever) use it so I don't care how ugly it is.
A large percentage of the incoming email will consist of automated messages from machines telling me of their trials, tribulations, and adventures (services failed and recovered, root login attempts, accounts suspended for non-payment, etc.). I'll also be using it as an off-network address for my accounts with datacenters and other providers.
Freemail is out of the question. Netaddress.com is also out of the question, but only because I already have an account with them and don't want another on the same network.
I've been on a trial of Fastmail.com for about a week. So far, so good. Everything works, my BlackBerry doesn't vomit on it, and my two "test" support requests were answered very promptly. It looks good; but I'm interested in knowing if anyone has been using Fastmail for a while and has anything to say about it, good or bad, before I commit to it.
As an aside...
The reason I need another address is because I previously was using a Gmail address for the server messages, logins with datacenters, and communications with Google itself -- and nothing else. No one else even knew that the Gmail address existed. It was strictly for the above purposes.
Alas, Google's robot has decided that the stream of mundane status messages from my servers are spam and has blocked them. Oddly enough, the server IPs are not blocked, just the status messages. I can email myself just fine through any of the servers in question. Gmail spits back only the status messages. I suppose it vomits on them because they contain no interesting personal information that Google can sell to the highest bidder. No one especially cares that "spamd failed and was restarted automagically."
So now my Gmail account has exactly one purpose left: to communicate with Google itself, which unfortunately is something that's pretty much unavoidable in my business. I'd love to close my Google account altogether, but that would be like a septic tank pumper saying that he doesn't want to deal with **** anymore.
Anyway, back to Fastmail, any comments positive or negative would be appreciated. Thanks.
Rich
A large percentage of the incoming email will consist of automated messages from machines telling me of their trials, tribulations, and adventures (services failed and recovered, root login attempts, accounts suspended for non-payment, etc.). I'll also be using it as an off-network address for my accounts with datacenters and other providers.
Freemail is out of the question. Netaddress.com is also out of the question, but only because I already have an account with them and don't want another on the same network.
I've been on a trial of Fastmail.com for about a week. So far, so good. Everything works, my BlackBerry doesn't vomit on it, and my two "test" support requests were answered very promptly. It looks good; but I'm interested in knowing if anyone has been using Fastmail for a while and has anything to say about it, good or bad, before I commit to it.
As an aside...
The reason I need another address is because I previously was using a Gmail address for the server messages, logins with datacenters, and communications with Google itself -- and nothing else. No one else even knew that the Gmail address existed. It was strictly for the above purposes.
Alas, Google's robot has decided that the stream of mundane status messages from my servers are spam and has blocked them. Oddly enough, the server IPs are not blocked, just the status messages. I can email myself just fine through any of the servers in question. Gmail spits back only the status messages. I suppose it vomits on them because they contain no interesting personal information that Google can sell to the highest bidder. No one especially cares that "spamd failed and was restarted automagically."
So now my Gmail account has exactly one purpose left: to communicate with Google itself, which unfortunately is something that's pretty much unavoidable in my business. I'd love to close my Google account altogether, but that would be like a septic tank pumper saying that he doesn't want to deal with **** anymore.
Anyway, back to Fastmail, any comments positive or negative would be appreciated. Thanks.
Rich