Looking to leave GMAIL and am currently testing Proton for a $1 a month. So far it’s pretty good and the issue I have is not with Proton, but with who I’m sending messages to. If I send an email to a gmail account my information is still sitting on a Google server. So is Proton worth it? Is something like Fastmail just as good over all due to how email works? With Fastmail I can get email for my whole family for $14 a month. I won’t have the VPN, ProtonPASS and other Proton apps, but are they worth the $12 a month for one person?
I originally started with Tuta and I found it too frustrating to use. The UI is lacking, notifications wouldn’t come in for extended periods (as it doesn’t use play services), and frequently, when opening the application, it would tell me I’m offline and disconnected and take a considerable time before eventually refreshing itself and showing me the contents of my inbox.
I went on the hunt trialling alternatives, including Purely mail, Infomaniak and Mailbox.org, but ultimately landed on Fastmail despite it being a more costly option.
Fastmail is just slick in its offering. I’m a heavy label user and the UI and UX just works for me. The ease of creating masked emails has me using that feature more than I ever thought I would.
It can still work on an IMAP connection but gives you the usual label to folder oddities, but I’m fine with their app offerings on Android/iOS/Linux/Windows.
The downsides are its cost and being hosted in a five-eyes country.