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Fastmail Review

October 5, 2019 By Sven Taylor — 25 Comments
Based inAustralia
Storage100 GB
Price$3.00/mo.
Free TierNo
WebsiteFastmail.com

Fastmail email

Founded 20 years ago, Fastmail provides its users with email, contacts, and a calendar. Fastmail has a lot of strengths and stresses their privacy and security features:

You can rely on Fastmail for service and support, and trust that your personal information is protected. You come first, and you can bank on it.

However, their views on privacy and security are rather different than those of products such as Tutanota and ProtonMail. If you are serious about securing the privacy of your email, you will definitely want to keep reading before investing in a Fastmail account.

+ Pros

  • Account includes email, calendar, and contacts
  • Can import messages from other email services and export to them
  • 30-day free trial with no credit card required
  • Desktop, mobile, and browser-based clients
  • Can restore account if password is lost
  • Integrated Notes and File storage

– Cons

  • Does not offer end-to-end encryption
  • Requires a valid telephone number to create an account
  • Does not support PGP
  • No free subscription tier
  • Company is based in Australia (Five Eyes) with servers located in the US
  • No cryptocurrency payment options
  • Only a portion of code is open source

Fastmail features overview

As mentioned previously, Fastmail provides email and contacts as well as calendar support. They redesigned the interface in June of 2019, giving the product a clean, modern look without choosing form over function.

fastmail email review australia

If you have experience using virtually any modern email program, you will have no problems figuring out Fastmail.

Interesting features of Fastmail include:

  • Web interface and mobile apps
  • Easy integration with many email services and clients
  • POP3, IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV support
  • Threaded conversations
  • Full-text search of messages
  • Support for custom domain names
  • The ability to recover your account if you lose your password
  • A promise not to scan your messages for marketing purposes
  • Easy import / export of messages, contacts, and calendar data
  • An extensive archive of support files
  • Business-specific features

So far, this is looking good. Fastmail is full-featured and has had two decades to refine their product. So let’s dig a bit deeper.

Fastmail company information

Fastmail launched in 1999 and is based in Australia. Your data is stored on servers in New York City, USA. The company claims to operate under four core values:

  1. You are our customer, not our product
  2. Your data belongs to you
  3. We are good stewards of your data
  4. We are good internet citizens

These are all great values. From the perspective of privacy and security, numbers 2 and 3 are particularly important, so let’s look at them in more detail.

“Your data belongs to you”

Fastmail states, “You have a story and a footprint that deserves respect. You get complete ownership and control of your data, which is seen by no one else but you.”

This is exactly what we want from a privacy perspective. We should have complete control over our data, with no one else able to see it without our permission.

“We are good stewards of your data”

Fastmail states, “You’ve entrusted us to take care of your data and we take that seriously. Your data is always available to you, intact, and away from the wrong hands.”

This sounds good, too. I know I want my email provider to keep my data secure from being viewed by anyone I don’t want to see it.

Keep these two core values in mind. We’ll return to them in a little while.

Fastmail technical specifications

From our perspective, Fastmail’s technical specifications are pretty simple.

  • They use SSL/TLS to encrypt data flowing between their servers and each user’s computer or mobile device.
  • Data stored on Fastmail servers is encrypted with LUKS or directly on the server hardware for those servers that support this capability.

If you are familiar with private email services, you may have noticed what is not specified. Fastmail doesn’t do message-level or end-to-end encryption.

In a service like ProtonMail, your messages are encrypted before they ever leave your device, and remain that way until decrypted by the recipient. The service in the middle cannot read your messages since they don’t control the encryption keys, you do.

In Fastmail, your messages are protected by SSL/TLS while in transit, and by the server’s encryption when stored on a Fastmail server. But the messages themselves are not encrypted. That means when the messages arrive at Fastmail’s servers, they can be read by Fastmail. Once the messages are stored on Fastmail servers, outsiders can’t read them, but Fastmail personnel can.

It is possible to send encrypted messages with Fastmail. You can use an external program to encrypt your messages, then send them through the Fastmail system. Or you can install a browser extension like Mailvelope that will allow you to apply PGP encryption to messages in the browser-based Fastmail client.

Fastmail hands-on testing

We’ve based this part of the review on the browser-based Fastmail client. Fastmail talks about desktop clients in their literature. But they don’t mean that there is a Fastmail desktop client. Instead, they mean that you can connect someone else’s desktop client to Fastmail’s servers. So we’ll stick with the browser-based client.

Signing up for Fastmail

Signing up for Fastmail takes only a few moments. You don’t need to give them a credit card since you can sign up for their 30-day free trial to check out the service. You’ll need to select an email address and a password, accept the Terms of Service and so on. This is all standard stuff.

But now things get unpleasant. To complete the registration, you must give Fastmail a mobile phone number they can use to verify your account. Telephone verification is about the least private way possible to verify your account. More privacy conscious services allow you to verify your account using an email address.

fastmail email service secure

Once you verify your account over the phone you are ready to go. I haven’t seen any evidence of mandatory waiting periods like I experienced with Tutanota.

The look and feel of Fastmail

As I mentioned earlier, Fastmail was recently redesigned to give it a nice modern look and feel. You navigate between the sections of the client using the Main Menu. Press the Shift-G keyboard shortcut to open the Main Menu.

fastmail email client menu

Composing Messages

Click Mail in the Main Menu, to open the Mail component of Fastmail. Then select the Compose icon at the top of the left-hand column to create a new message.

fast mail compose message

As you can see, all the formatting options you’ll need are readily available, making it fast and easy to create your messages.

Sending and receiving messages

Here is one place where Fastmail’s lack of message-level encryption is a benefit. Because there is no message encryption involved, you don’t have to worry about things like which email service either of you is using, or about exchanging encryption keys outside of the email system.

Searching messages and more

Fastmail’s Search feature is powerful. You can search for specific words or phrases, as well as construct complex searches that include characteristics like the message size or date. You can also sort the results in various ways and save searches for reuse later.

The Calendar, Contacts, and other components of Fastmail also have similar search capabilities.

Rules

Fastmail allows you to create rules that help automate the processing of messages. To do so, open the Main Menu, select Settings then Rules.

fastmail rules

The inbox rules seemed to work well.

Contacts

The Contacts component of Fastmail allows you to keep track of the people you exchange messages with. You can add a person by clicking the New Contact button in the Contacts section, or by clicking their name in an email message and selecting Add to Contacts.

fastmail contacts

You can create Groups of contacts, but the process is a bit clumsy. You’ll need to click More, then Groups, and enter the group name. Once you do that, the group will appear in the Groups list, and you can start creating contacts within that group.

The Calendar, Notes, and Files

While Mail and Contacts are our main interest here, the fact that Fastmail includes Calendars, Notes, and File storage is a definite plus.

fastmail calendar

You can read more about the Fastmail calendar here.

Notes

Similar to the Notes feature of Microsoft Outlook, you can use this component of Fastmail to keep a searchable record of personal information that might otherwise get lost. Because the Notes are stored on the Fastmail servers, you can have access to them from your mobile devices as well as any web browser.

fastmail notes

That said, since Fastmail Notes are not encrypted, this is probably not the best place to record things like passwords or bank account numbers. (Use a good password manager instead.)

Files

Store smallish (less than 50MB) files in the Fastmail Files component and you will have access to them from anywhere.

fastmail files

Again, unless you trust Fastmail to never look at your data, don’t upload any files you want kept private.

Fastmail mobile apps

Fastmail offers apps for both iOS and Android. I tested the Android app and find it to be perfectly acceptable. Here’s a screenshot of the Fastmail Android app:

fastmail android app

The one drawback I saw was that the app does not function offline. If you need the ability to at least read your email when in an airplane for example, you won’t be able to do it with Fastmail.

Is Fastmail really private and secure?

When I visualize a private, secure email service, it looks something like this:

  1. Every message I create is encrypted, at my device, using encryption keys that I control. The encryption technology used cannot have any back doors or methods that bypass the encryption. Only I, or the intended recipient, have the capability to decrypt them.
  2. The messages are protected by SSL/TLS encryption while traveling between my device and the email service’s servers.
  3. While any messages are stored on the service’s servers, the service applies an additional layer of encryption that they control. This can not compromise the original encryption in any way.

This is basically how secure email services like ProtonMail and Tutanota work.

A major strike against Fastmail appears in the portion of their Privacy Policy covering the global transfer of your data. It states that (emphasis added),

Your personal information may be disclosed, transferred to or processed outside of your country of residence. This includes to Australia, the United States of America, India, and the Netherlands, where it will be subject to the laws of the country to which it is transferred. These jurisdictions may not have an equivalent level of data protection laws as those in your country.

If I am reading this correctly (I am not a lawyer), the privacy of your personal data is subject to the whims of the politicians in any of the countries listed.

Remember those two core Fastmail values, “Your data belongs to you,” and “We are good stewards of your data”? They stated in part that,

  • “You get complete ownership and control of your data, which is seen by no one else but you.”
  • “Your data is always available to you, intact, and away from the wrong hands.”

If your personal information can be disclosed and processed in any of several countries, and be subject to the data protection laws of those countries, you clearly don’t have complete ownership and control of your data. It can be seen, collected, and shared with many other parties – and you may not even be alerted if/when your data falls into the “wrong hands”.

Australia is a bad location for secure email

The biggest strike against Fastmail is that it is based in Australia. That may sound strange, with Australia being a modern Western Democracy and all that. But in reality, Australia is a horrible place for online privacy. Here’s why:

The Five Eyes connection

Australia is a member of the Five Eyes Intelligence organization. This means, among other things, that they share intelligence with the other Five Eyes countries. Reportedly, this even extends to spying on each other’s citizens and passing along the information, allowing the members to skirt laws against spying on their own citizens. This realization sets the stage.

Your metadata does not belong to you (in Australia)

In 2017, a federal court ruled that your metadata is actually data about your devices, not about you. This cleared the way for telecoms and other companies to record that data, and hand it over to the government on demand, while at the same time denying you access to the same data.

Since metadata can reveal a lot about your activities online even if it isn’t considered data about you, it became vital for people to use a quality VPN in Australia if they wanted to protect their privacy.

As we’ve pointed out before, it is a good idea to simply use a good VPN service at all times, which conceals your IP address and location. This will give you more online anonymity and control over your data, regardless of laws in Australia.

Australia leads the way for the world to spy on users

In 2018, the Australian government passed a draconian law called this Assistance and Access Bill. As the name suggests, this law requires technology companies to assist authorities in gaining access to user data. This can include direct access as well as adding backdoors or removing access bearers, to including breaking encryption.

According to human rights lawyer Lizzie O’Shea in a New York Times editorial,

Australia, which has no bill of rights, is a logical place to test new strategies for collecting intelligence that can later be adopted elsewhere. Among other things, the proposed law would create a process for “designated communications providers” — defined so expansively that it covers any business hosting a website — to assist intelligence and law enforcement agencies to do almost anything to give them access to encrypted communications. For example, providers may have to build tools, install software or keep agencies up-to-date with developments. In essence, state agencies will be able to circumvent encryption, either with the cooperation of tech companies or by compulsion.

And things do not look to be improving.

Australian politicians want more spying power

In June of 2019, the Home Affairs Minister promoted the idea of giving the government the ability to directly spy on its own citizens, while vehemently denying it at the same time. His arguments are too twisty for me to even summarize for you, so I suggest you check out this article if you want the details. The point is that despite already having massive spying powers, the government is looking for more.

You don’t control your content, Fastmail does

The privacy developments in Australia are horrible, but in a way, it doesn’t even matter. That’s because you don’t control access to your messages and other information; Fastmail does. Let’s go back to my vision of a secure, private email service for a moment. The first step in my model is:

  1. Every message I create is encrypted, at my device, using encryption keys that I control. The encryption technology used cannot have any back doors or methods that bypass the encryption. Only I, or the intended recipient, have the capability to decrypt them.

Fastmail doesn’t bother with that step. They go directly to step 2, where my (unencrypted) messages are protected while in transit by the standard SSL/TLS encryption that virtually every business website uses these days. Once the messages arrive at the Fastmail servers, that encryption is removed, leaving my messages in plain text for anyone who happens to have access to the server to read.

On their site, Fastmail explains their rationale for taking this approach. As they put it,

To provide the services we offer, it is necessary for our computer systems to process unencrypted and unobfuscated data (for example: to build the search indexes which allow fast message retrieval, or to push alarm notifications for calendar events).

This approach does have advantages such as those described here. It also makes it possible for Fastmail to recover your account for you if you lose your password, and so on. What it doesn’t do is give you privacy or security in the same league as other services.

The Fastmail model requires you to trust the employees of the company since they have the ability to read your messages. With a service like ProtonMail or Tutanota, it is literally impossible for them to read your messages.

Data stored on servers in the United States

As we noted above, Fastmail stores user data on servers in the United States. From their support page:

Our main servers are located at New York Internet (NYI) in Bridgewater, New Jersey, USA. Their facility is a high security, video monitored location; with backup power, air conditioning, fire systems, 24x7x365 monitoring, and onsite technical support.

Our secondary sites at NYI’s Seattle location has equivalent physical security.

Data stored in the United States is also risky business. US laws permit authorities to demand access to user data while also giving them authority to server gag orders that prohibit the company from disclosing what happened. This has happened on at least two occasions with Lavabit and also Riseup.

Fastmail business features

When you choose the Fastmail Professional plan, You get a few business-specific capabilities. In addition to the ability to use your own domain name (instead of a pre-existing Fasmail domain), you get:

  • Administrator controls and archiving
  • Topicbox for team sharing

Topicbox is a sister product of Fastmail. It is a group email app for teams. It gives you a shared archive, where you (the Administrator) can create controlled-access groups to manage the messages and knowledge of your teams. Instead of forwarding and CC’ing messages, you can send them to the relevant group on Topicbox to streamline communications and keep information organized.

Support

The Fastmail Support area includes lots of useful information. This is good, since they don’t offer live chat and the only way to contact their support personnel is via email. Responses may take several hours.

Fastmail plans and pricing

Fastmail has three plans: Basic, Standard, and Professional. As you can see in the image below, the prices for each plan seem reasonable for the amount of storage and capabilities that they provide.

fastmail pricing

Note that there isn’t separate business pricing. The Professional plan’s support for up to 100 domains and 600 aliases along with various administrative controls, gives it the power to handle small businesses.

Should you consider Fastmail?

As always, whether an email service is right for you depends on your threat model. Here is a summary of specific factors to consider:

  • Jurisdiction – Fastmail is based in Australia, but your data is stored in New York City and Amsterdam. Neither Australia nor NYC are good places to keep private data.
  • PGP support – Does not support PGP. Can be added using browser extensions.
  • Import feature – Fastmail has the ability to import mail from most other email services and can export messages as well.
  • Email apps – A web-based client as well as integration with 3rd party desktop clients, along with iOS and Android apps.
  • Encryption – Emails and attachments are not end-to-end encrypted. Servers are encrypted and protect at-rest data, but Fastmail can access all your data.
  • Features – Includes a built-in calendar, contacts, notes, and file storage along with full text search of all the above.

From this list, we can see that Fastmail is not a good privacy choice. The service does not provide end-to-end encryption, which means that employees (as well as local governments) may access your unencrypted data. And neither Australia or the United States (where New York City is located) are very supportive of online privacy.

Fastmail alternatives

I find that suggesting alternatives to Fastmail is a little bit awkward. That’s because I don’t really see a practical niche for the product. Now don’t get me wrong. Keeping your data out of the hands of mega corporations like Microsoft or Google is a great idea.

But if you are going to switch from Gmail, Outlook.com, or similar services, why would you switch to a service like Fastmail that doesn’t provide real privacy? Services like Tutanota and ProtonMail are continuously adding features like Calendars and the ability to search your data, while also eliminating the need to trust them not to read your stuff themselves.

If you are going to make the switch to a new email service, I urge you to choose one of the strong private services – see our email reviews here.

Fastmail review conclusion

Is Fastmail a good choice for readers of RestorePrivacy.com? That depends on your threat model. If your only concern is that a mega corporation like Google or Microsoft doesn’t mine your email messages for advertising purposes, then Fastmail could be a good choice.

If you are looking for a secure and private email service that doesn’t rely on trusting the company’s employees or a bunch of nosy Australian police and politicians, then steer away from Fastmail.

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Sven Taylor

About Sven Taylor

Sven Taylor is the founder of Restore Privacy. With a passion for digital privacy and online freedom, he created this website to provide you with honest, useful, and up-to-date information about online privacy, security, and related topics. His focus is on privacy research, writing guides, testing privacy tools, and website admin.

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  1. AvatarRobert

    February 9, 2021

    Hi,
    thanks for your efforts and this page.
    I was wondering whether you could comment your view on Fastmail security against “normal” hackers, not state-level ones. I am not worried of Fastmail employees or Australian government, but private hackers trying to either hijack the account or intercept emails and / or send emails on my behalf. If applied 2FA, is Fastmail less secure than e.g. Protonmail / Mailfence when sending emails across internet unencrypted (e.g. sending unencrypted email from Protonmail to Gmail user or viceversa)?

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  2. AvatarJ. W. Johnson

    January 5, 2021

    I have tried to use Fastmail for several years. Overall the product provided is good but the BIGGEST EXCEPTION is lack of customer support. My last issue though may seem minor to them was a moderate concern to me. They said it was take 48 hours to 72 hours to get back to me. It was exactly 168 hours before they got back to me and then only to ask me a question. I responded and now it is over 48 hours and they not responded back again. See the issue?

    I closed my account. I can’t help but think what if my account was down, when would it ever get back up? I really, really want to use Fastmail and give them my money instead of the “evil” Titans of the Universe. That is so sad but at least the Titans will will respond and attempt to fix an issue in a timely manner.
    Again, I really want to use their product but lack of customer support really becomes a problem everytime.

    Reply
  3. AvatarStephen Chater

    December 7, 2020

    I agree that Protonmail and Tutanota may be more secure but unfortunately there are other problems. Protonmail does not support sub-folders. I tried importing 100+ folders/sub-folders to Protonmail without success and the technical support staff couldn’t provide a workaround. I was disappointed.
    Tutanota does not have sub-folders either. More importantly one cannot import emails from another email client. I really like the Tutanota layout and hope that these issues will be resolved soon. According to their blog those improvements should have already happened…
    That being said I will give FastMail a try…

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  4. AvatarJingle Bells

    November 16, 2020

    I think Fastmail is better than your review suggests, obviously depending on what one needs. Moving away from Gmail & Co makes a massive difference from a privacy perspective. Also, end-to-end-encryption is only useful if the person you correspond with also has the right setup, hence only useful to a minority of users / a minority of one’s emails. But using E2EE services can be annoying from a usability perspective.

    A great feature at Fastmail is the aliases and subdomain-addressing. For instance, if my email is me@fastmail.com, I can also use anything@me.fastmail.com (which I think is better because less widespread than plus-addressing), and this can automatically go to the “anything” folder. They also offer loads of domain aliases. I use a different address for pretty much every service. Anonymity is also a form of privacy. I can make up a name, or use something generic without having to set up anything. It also allows me to easily block junk if one of the aliases gets stolen by a spammer.

    I have been with Fastmail for several years. My threat model doesn’t include government surveillance but I definitely do not want my emails in the hands of hackers. I think Fastmail offer that and have been around a long time to show they’re serious. They offer a neat solution, with loads of well-implemented features.

    For sensitive emails, I use PGP and a 3rd-party app – I have an alias for that too which makes it easy to separate from the other emails.

    Reply
  5. AvatarBill Reinecke

    November 14, 2020

    I’m just now doing research on gmail altneratives. I’d be curious which secure email gateway provider these companies use. Also, is DMARC fully implemented into “reject” mode. I looked on MXToolbox, but at least the secure email gateway vendor was not shown there.

    Reply
  6. AvatarSteven

    October 27, 2020

    Any thoughts on Zoho Mail? A review would be interesting. It’s very popular.

    Reply
    • Sven TaylorSven Taylor

      October 27, 2020

      We haven’t tested it, but will keep it in mind for a review in 2021.

      Reply
  7. AvatarJIM STILLER

    October 15, 2020

    FASTMAIL:
    DO NOT TRUST THESE PEOPLE.
    THEY VIOLATED MY PRIVACY AND BUTTED INTO A PERSONAL
    CONVERSATION THREAD, AND CALLED IT A “BULK EMAIL,” and
    THEN FROZE MY ACCOUNT FOR THIS?!!!?
    THEY MONITOR AND READ YOUR EMAILS AND THEN
    WHILE YOUR TRYING TO ENCOURAGE YOUR FRIENDS IN
    A CONVERSATION, THEY CALL IT BULK EMAILING…
    ERRRRR.
    IT WAS SEVERAL EMAILS, BUT NOT BULK! MY GOODNESS.
    DO NOT TRUST THIS COMPANY, THEY ARE INSANE.

    Reply
  8. AvatarDanny

    September 30, 2020

    Fastmail now charges you extra 20 dollars just to have IMAP and POP support. You’ve got to be kidding. Their customer service is absolutely horrendous now. Please do yourself a favor and just switch elsewhere. They are now a profit-centric company and don’t give a crap about customers. I’ve been a customer for over 5 years, they didn’t hesitate taking my money, but refuse to help at all. WORST EXPERIENCE, HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED!!!!

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  9. AvatarSera

    September 23, 2020

    I too was instantly put off by the Fastmail cell-number requirement, although it makes little difference once you provide a credit card number.

    What I want to know is why the world banking community can not provide an anonymous cash card for any individual to use, with no tracking, no fees, and no security risks. I’d be happy to put $100. dollars at at time on a card, the risk of losing it is not so great; you can lose cash too. This is what a “Gift” card is anyway, so what is the problem?

    Reply
    • AvatarRandom

      October 15, 2020

      Because enabling money laundering by criminal enterprises is generally frowned upon by the authorities.

      Reply
  10. AvatarPete

    July 30, 2020

    I’ve been using Fastmail for about five years and have had only one problem. I mistakenly hit the SPAM button a few times when it was on top next to DELETE. That doesn’t just mark the email as SPAM, it sends a “You have been marked as SPAM” signal back to the originator and you must contact them to un-SPAM you. I sent a message to Fastmail and explained this – along with the fact that their SPAM filter works great and a normal person would need that SPAM button maybe twice a year. They moved the Mark as SPAM option to the Other menu dropdown in their next update. Compared to a free email service that reads all your mail, Fastmail is preferable. I just added Mailvelope and need to learn to use it.

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  11. Avatarshawn

    July 22, 2020

    Hmm, not a single mention of how effectively fastmail does or doesn’t reject obvious spam and email forgeries, or score/tag messages likely to be spam. Preventing users from ever receiving malicious attachments, phishing, cons, spam and other dangerous email greatly benefits productivity and security.

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  12. AvatarKStar

    June 5, 2020

    It’s too bad there are so many security issues with FastMail. To me, they have the best web interface of all the “secure” email/calendar/contact providers.

    So far, I think the best balance of security/privacy, and everyday usability is going to be something like Mailbox.org. Sure, Tutanota, ProtonMail, cTemplar, etc. are more “secure”, but exchanging email with users not on those systems is far more cumbersome. And lets face it, most users in the world are not actually using those secure providers.

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  13. AvatarPablo

    April 27, 2020

    I’ve been using Fastmail for 2 years now and never realized this. Did they relocate data/servers in the past few years? Thanks for this article. I have been contemplating moving all to Protonmail but the price is higher for a UX that isn’t up to snuff.

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  14. AvatarResearch 2020

    March 8, 2020

    Fastmail is offering a 30-day free trial without a credit card, but does require a phone. I signed up yesterday, they got my cell number.

    I then worked until about 1:30 am, selectively sending individual inquiries to about 8 or 9 professional researchers, looking to hire someone. The inquiries had the name, address, phone & fax of each of the researchers. This was obviously not “spam”.

    Today, I tried to login to check for replies and found my account GONE. Fastmail screwed me, even with my cell phone; they screwed me with these people that I wrote to. They screwed me on this emergency project; and their “support” ticket alleges it’ll be another 24-48 hours before they get back to me. The delay is fatal to my research work.

    Fastmail has my cell, but did NOT even have the courtesy to send me a TEXT to even offer me the chance to reconfirm my account. They just DESTROYED it.

    Uncivilized thugs online, we can do with less of them!

    Therefore, if you are tempted to sign up for the FAKE 30-day “free trial” at Fastmail, be advised that you risk being arbitrarily and seriously SCREWED.

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  15. Avatarvanp

    November 17, 2019

    If I use an email service that offers built-in encryption from beginning to end, does that mean if I send an email to a business, that business won’t be able to read it?

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    • Sven TaylorSven Taylor

      November 17, 2019

      It depends on how you are encrypting it and whether the recipient can decrypt it.

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  16. Avatar2core

    October 19, 2019

    Hello Sven. Nice to see Posteo and Mailfence reviews here.

    How about a review of Sub Rosa? They offer multiple secure email services in Switzerland, yet nobody seems to have heard of them.

    I’ve no affiliation with Sub Rosa beyond being a customer for several years, and I’ve tried most all of the services you’ve reviewed so far.

    To be honest, I’m surprised to see Fastmail here. Outfits like Fastmail and Runbox may be competent mail providers but they have little to offer in terms of security.

    Fastmail = no real security + FVEY country

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  17. AvatarGreg Cash

    October 6, 2019

    I briefly looked at this one after my Tutanota issues and it screamed NO!
    This made in to the bottom of my results page so everyone be very wary of this company.

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  18. AvatarJinx

    October 5, 2019

    Dear Sven,

    Would love your honest and in-depth review of all IM services.

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    • Sven TaylorSven Taylor

      October 6, 2019

      Yep, will do.

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  19. AvatarFerdincrypto

    October 5, 2019

    Dear Sven,
    Posteo e-mail review please 🙂, thanks

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    • Sven TaylorSven Taylor

      October 5, 2019

      Yep, it’s coming.

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  20. AvatarHard Sell

    October 5, 2019

    Sven, such a grand way to say No ! I don’t think so.
    Found out most of this too before the review and agree whole heartily to your findings – that are far more detailed and classified to say this what you get AND this is what you should want at minimum in any secure email you’d use.
    Really Fastmails data security is a keep-out sign for it’s SIDE of any company and/or partners personnel’s.
    TOTALLY doesn’t mean the roads closed off as a lock is meant for an honest man, any of it’s disenchanted employees can access it fully probably making copies for whatever reasons (black male – insurance) in the company.
    Great write up Sir

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