Fastmail has now canned free accounts effective 31 July 2017. Mine was a grandfathered-in operamail account and I was assured by the Fastmail team that I could continue to use it. It was used for a niche purpose and was not my primary email account. Already signed up elsewhere for a replacement. There are definitely better alternatives to be had, with more quota and more features. Received a fair amount of spam over the years (perhaps a way of "persuading" me to cancel the free account?)

Ive been hacked on my fastmail account although constantly changing passwords. Hacker also hacked my back up fastmail email accountv. I looked at my login history and saw access from computers all around Australia. Told fastmail team, they did nothing. Hacker changed my password and now Ive lost all my files of 10 years although I had advanced security. Gmail is superior

Fastmail is good ...when working. I like the security and respect of some privacy, that is why I accept to pay for it. But you will quickly learn than paid service does not men good support. Support is one of the worst you could find; Slow, bad explanation. You better spend lot of time to make it work correctly on your device. Good point is that when it is set,, it will work wel and great... If you change your password, by a new device: problem of setting will be back. Why don't they offer better support or better standard explanation, Mystère...

I have been receiving: We received a message from you requesting for your account termination, please ignore this message if the request was from you. Your account would be deleted from our system in the next 24hrs. (Note: All mails in your inbox, spam, draft, and sent items would be deleted, and access to your account would be denied.) cancel request if the message wasn't from you, and follow the prompt Get Started Here Is this spam or some fraudulent attack?

I've been on FastMail for over 10 years and it's always been a competent service with very little downtime. I paid a one-off fee for lifetime account many years ago which has served me well, but with only a 16MB mailbox which was never increased, it certainly won't last my life. No complaints there, it was good value. FastMail don't provide free accounts any more and I'm not convinced the paid options are good value now. Brining my own domain into FastMail starts at $40/year and I know there are better options for me. If you're happy with their domain names, the starter package isn't a bad (private) alternative to the gmail type free services out there.

Fastmail was initially good but then it kept suspending my account for not be used, that was alright because it could be re-activated after a while but now it has taken a turn for the worst without any warning it has close my account and asking me to pay to re-activate it. they are looking to make a profit from people sending emails. why... gmail, yahoo, outlook, are all free and much better services without as much spam.

Fantastic email service. It's reliable, well designed and secure. Worth every penny.

It's best e-mail provider ever use. Great for personal usage and business customers as well. Very good security and really fantastic interface. Quite cheap for this service lvl!. ABSOLUTELY WOULD RECOMMEND TO EVERYONE.

For many years I have used the free version of FastMail. It has always been fast and reliable. However, since a few months the spam protection filter seems to be removed. Every day 20+ spam messages pop up that even the most basic spam filter would be able to detect. This makes the free FastMail accounts completely unusable. So unless you're willing to pay I would not recommend FastMail.

if they lock your acct. means they are checking your activity. if your email works, you dont need support, free or paid.

If you are overwhelmed by the clutter of Gmail and Yahoo, this is for you. No chats, no circles, no friends, no maps, no Youtube, no news, no blogs, no shopping. No anything, JUST EMAIL. Perfect. And if you don't and ads, it's only $5 a YEAR. That's worth it!

I've used independent email services for years. I have used fastmail.fm for the past 3 years -- This is the best email service that I have used. I can't give them enough praise. I rarely get spam and the online interface is great. I use it on an android phone, outlook, and mac mail. It works flawlessly... If you are looking for an email service get this one..

I've used Fastmail for over 5 years now and it is still the best email service out there. Yeah, it's not free, but it isn't expensive either. You get a great level of control over your mail -- technical control that the likes of Yahoo, GMail, AOL, and Hotmail/LiveMail simply do not give you. Their new interface is also much friendlier and works more like a modern webmail interface -- the old interface was ugly, but functional and it desperately needed this makeover. Anyway: Great product, no complaints!

I'm not sure if Opera has too much money to spend or coders just have too much time on their hands, but either way Fastmail is quickly improving itself out of it's long held 1st Place. I've been with them for over a decade and have had nothing but good to say about them, up until they decided to discontinue the Classic User Interface some time ago. Now, today was about the last straw. The rolled out a 10 month long Beta exercise as the Main New/Improved Interface. Gone is much we were accustomed to seeing and using. Of course all this has stirred up a huge complaint on their support forum, but I don't have much hope of Opera actually listening to what folks are saying they WANT. Exactly what they PAID for: A stable, unchanging platform they can grow accustomed to and be efficient with. In light of all that, I can no longer recommend them as an email provider...at all. I know, if I knew what was going to happen to Fastmail once Opera bought them out, I would have started shopping for another email provider long ago. Better late, than never though!

I have been with fastmail for over eight years and it has never let me down. I have so much more control over my email and I've never had any problem. Completely recommend it.

Over the years I have had (and still have) a fair few emaiol accounts with different providers for different purposes. The one constant for me continues to be that Fastmail is my rocksolid provider for my main personal account. Not only does it give me a reliable and flexible email service, but I have one of the paid plans and for not much dollar outlay I also am able to host my own domain and emails off it too. At different times I've had to contact support with a query, and I've been really impressed with the responsive follow up. For only a little bit of money I know I have a great service that doesn't have big brother google getting more of my personal data. Use it!