FastmailReviews of fastmail.com

I had this FastMail for many years as a second email. When they started charging it made me think what is FastMail worth? Comparing to all the other FREE email's Gmail/Yahoo etc etc etc ..there was NOTHING I could see that made FastMail worth PAYING for. It has a very simple interface .. definitely NO BETTER than all the rest. In the past I actually had PROBLEMS with FastMail that I have never had with any other mail system. FASTMAIL IS NOT WORTH PAYING FOR !!!

I've been using fastmail for years. During the time of opera ownership the new interface was dropped on customers without consultation. In my view it's a dog. Like many, I continued using the friendly old interface, even though it was a bit of a workaround to access it. Now that's being scrapped, allegedly June 30th 2017. In fact its mostly unavailable more than a month prior. Move over Fastmail,

I had a free email account since many years, and recently I decided to become a paying user to remove the limitations of a free account. I made the mistake of giving only a quick look to the conditions before paying, assuming that if one day I want to stop paying my account would just go back to its free account status, with the corresponding limitations. However I discovered that one can never go back to being a free user: your account and its whole content will be instead simply deleted. In other words once you start paying you can no longer stop unless you accept to lose that email account and address; you can never go back to the free account. Since this is counter-intuitive to say the least, I recommend to carefully read and understand all the conditions before starting to pay; and while this is of course always a good idea in general (although not very realistic), it's particularly important in this case.

hatte seit 11 oder 12 Jahren(!) einen "operamail"- Account, über den meine wichtigen Korrespondenzen, wie Bank, PayPal, Ebay, Handy-Provider sowie Strom-Anbieter und Auto-Versicherung liefen. Irgendwann hatte sich das Design geändert, und ich erfuhr, dass Fastmail operamail gekauft hatte. Der Satz von Rob Mueller (Zitat): "Alle bestehenden Konten werden wie bisher weitergeführt. Am Abrechnungszeitraum, den Preisen, Funktionen und der Sicherheit gibt es keine Änderungen." ist in meinen augen blanker Hohn. Ich wollte nach längerer Zeit wieder auf meinen Account zugreifen, erhielt jedoch nur die Information: Wegen längerer Inaktivität wurde Ihr Account gelöscht. ...super...also eine Anfrage an den Kundensupport : "I have saved important documents on my po box there. Need access to my Account, I 've been using for 10 years. Thanks!" die Antwort kam am nächsten Tag: "Hi, It appears your account got deactivated due to inactivity. Guest accounts are deactivated after 120 days of inactivity. Since we no longer provide a "Guest" subscription, I am afraid we cannot reactivate or restore your account. Sorry. You can find more details in our blog post here: ... I am afraid all data in your account is lost forever. You can however signup a fresh account using the same username if you would like to. Our Lite account is "almost" free at only about 18 cents a week($10/yr). You can check out the features and quotas of the Lite account in the following page: ... You may signup for the Lite or any other of our paid accounts, with a free 60-day trial account with the same username as you had before by going here: ... Hope this helps. Regards." Ich soll also für meinen alten, angeblich nicht reaktivierbaren (Blödsinn! bin selber aus der IT-Branche) Account einen neuen, nun nicht mehr kostenfreien, mit demselben Nutzernamen anlegen!?! Meine Antwort auf diese Frechheit: "hi! "Guest accounts are deactivated after 120 days of inactivity." How often i use my account is only MY problem! i don´t need "a fresh account using the same username" !!! I NEED MY DOKUMENTS FROM PAYPAL; EBAY; MY CELLPHONE-PROVIDER AND MY ELEKTRICITY!!!!!" darauf kam von dort: "We no longer provide Guest accounts. So for users who already had subscribed for Guest accounts we kept the accounts as such. However as per the policy if the accounts are not used for a long time we give a warning and still if there is no activity we deactivate the accounts. This is what has happened on your account. I am afraid the data cannot be recovered. Sorry for the inconvenience. Regards." NOCHMAL: ich hatte einen REGULÄREN operamail-Account (keinen Gast-Account!), und ich habe keiner Änderung der Nutzungsbedingungen zugestimmt! ...und wie oft ich meine Mails checke ist ja wohl ausschliesslich MEIN Problem...