I’ve threatened to do it in the past, but yesterday I finally took the plunge and signed up for an “Enhanced” account (for 5 years) at FastMail. Hopefully this is the last time I have to think about e-mail for the next 4 years, 364 days. 
We’ve been hosting a fair amount of mail here on this server and frankly the box is at its limit. The mail set-up is fairly complicated, with lots of configuration hours having gone into getting the Bayesian filters working properly, etc. With the mail off the box, we can finally upgrade to a more powerful server as well.
I’ll be moving my mail today and this weekend1, and Scott will be transitioning in another week or two. Once the mail is gone and we’re on a faster box, we should have plenty of room to keep growing.
UPDATE: FastMail has a referrer program, the link above now includes my referrer id.
- I’ll keep some notes as I make the transition for a future post once I feel I can really review the service. [back]
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Chris adds this Comment:
I also subscribe to the enhanced FastMail package (have now over a year). I think you’ll like it…it’s a very powerful mailer.
April 7th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Adam Keys adds this Comment:
One more FastMail user. Its a fantastic thing to not have to admin a mail server; really, no one should have to do such a beastly task.
My only real complaint is that their web interface isn’t GMail-tastic. Anyone using a web frontend that talks to their IMAP interface to get around that?
April 8th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Alex adds this Comment:
Round Cube Mail works just fine, but it’s still in its infancy.
April 8th, 2006 at 8:32 am
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April 12th, 2006 at 9:12 am
Seb Payne adds this Comment:
I have a free fastmail.fm account I use with Gmail for my Treo 600 with ChatterMail. Anyway, how does fastmail work with domains Alex?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
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