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Comment by microtonal

1 month ago

Downside is that their main servers are in the US, which may be problematic these days if you are from outside the US.

I just moved away from Fastmail after 10+ years for this reason.

as of this week, I've been going through the rigmarole of self-hosting my own email (again), for the same reason as you

any avoidable dependency on the US has become a red line

don't forget to tell fastmail that the reason you're leaving is because they host in the US!

(I also told them if they open a DC outside the reach of the US regime: I be happy to become a customer again)

Out of curiosity: Where did you migrate to?

  • Proton. There are some other good alternatives. But since the rest of the family was also using Fastmail, I needed a solution that was user-friendly enough. Besides that, Proton Drive also made it possible to finally move away from our Dropbox Family subscription.