Fastmail and Pobox - Page 2

Berenburger · 7 Apr 2017, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by ankupan

standing with you in the queue

Another. Still in doubt to give up one of them.

TenFour · 8 Apr 2017, 10:21 PM

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Now they are in common ownership would a discount be appropriate?

Why not just migrate to one service or the other--whichever suits your needs best?

ankupan · 12 Apr 2017, 04:49 PM

Don't want to give up anyone, just need both under one roof only

Need Pobox SPAM as well as FM old email emails accounts alive also.

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Originally Posted by Berenburger

Another. Still in doubt to give up one of them.

NJSS · 15 Jun 2018, 09:32 PM

ankupan wrote:-

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Don't want to give up anyone, just need both under one roof only

Need Pobox SPAM as well as FM old email emails accounts alive also.

Time has passed & I'm still using POBox & FM.

Has anyone any further thoughts, or have there been developments in the last year that I have missed?

NJSS

ankupan · 15 Jun 2018, 09:37 PM

Very true.

Paying for both services and getting the same output.

if they can merge both than it will be good.

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Originally Posted by NJSS

ankupan wrote:-

Time has passed & I'm still using POBox & FM.

Has anyone any further thoughts, or have there been developments in the last year that I have missed?

NJSS

TenFour · 15 Jun 2018, 09:44 PM

Still using POBox.com Basic for forwarding emails to my Gmail and also for sending using various domains. Works very well and is reliable.

odedp · 16 Jun 2018, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by NJSS

Time has passed & I'm still using POBox & FM.

NJSS

Me too...

Berenburger · 16 Jun 2018, 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Berenburger

Another. Still in doubt to give up one of them.

Gave up FastMail (after 14 years). Still using Pobox - Mailstore (since 2012).
So far I have not missed FastMail.

chickadee · 17 Jun 2018, 03:11 AM

Why did you ditch FastMail?

Berenburger · 17 Jun 2018, 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by chickadee

Why did you ditch FastMail?

http://www.emaildiscussions.com/show...79&postcount=3

JamesHenderson · 26 Jun 2018, 07:53 PM

longtime Fastmail user here. I have been looking at Pobox over the years, but never really spent too much time as Fastmail always seemed to do what I want. When Fastmail bough pox and then (at least to me) appeared to do nothing with it, I got very confused trying to differentiate between the two services.

Would I be right by summarising "Pobox mailstore" v "Fastmail standard" as follows:

same price
Fastmail has a website function
Pobox has twice the space (50Gb v 25GB)
Pobox has more spam controls server side

Did I miss anything significant?

J.

TenFour · 27 Jun 2018, 08:46 AM

Not sure if POBox.com email filters are as powerful as sieve filters, but I personally do not use filtering very much. Frankly, I'm not certain of the usefulness of a system that automatically funnels emails into certain folders without me having to do anything. How is one supposed to know something has arrived without then having to go to each folder and check? I find this process much slower and less intuitive than just routinely scanning incoming email and then doing something with it: much of it just gets deleted, others get starred, some get filed, others archived, etc. I don't get the point in receiving email if I don't at least glance at it! Plus, no matter how powerful the filters things get misfiled, leading to lots of wasted time looking for things in the wrong places.

Berenburger · 27 Jun 2018, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by JamesHenderson

Did I miss anything significant?

Mail statistics (send, receive, etc.) on Pobox.
No photo gallery on Pobox.

Berenburger · 27 Jun 2018, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by TenFour

Not sure if POBox.com email filters are as powerful as sieve filters,

Less powerful. There’s no sieve editor.

26 Jun 2018, 07:53 PM	#26
JamesHenderson Essential Contributor Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Oxfordshire, UK Posts: 433	longtime Fastmail user here. I have been looking at Pobox over the years, but never really spent too much time as Fastmail always seemed to do what I want. When Fastmail bough pox and then (at least to me) appeared to do nothing with it, I got very confused trying to differentiate between the two services. Would I be right by summarising "Pobox mailstore" v "Fastmail standard" as follows: same price Fastmail has a website function Pobox has twice the space (50Gb v 25GB) Pobox has more spam controls server side Did I miss anything significant? J.

15 Jun 2018, 09:44 PM	#21
TenFour Essential Contributor Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 366	Still using POBox.com Basic for forwarding emails to my Gmail and also for sending using various domains. Works very well and is reliable.

17 Jun 2018, 03:11 AM	#24
chickadee Member Join Date: Nov 2013 Posts: 54	Why did you ditch FastMail?

27 Jun 2018, 08:46 AM	#27
TenFour Essential Contributor Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 366	Not sure if POBox.com email filters are as powerful as sieve filters, but I personally do not use filtering very much. Frankly, I'm not certain of the usefulness of a system that automatically funnels emails into certain folders without me having to do anything. How is one supposed to know something has arrived without then having to go to each folder and check? I find this process much slower and less intuitive than just routinely scanning incoming email and then doing something with it: much of it just gets deleted, others get starred, some get filed, others archived, etc. I don't get the point in receiving email if I don't at least glance at it! Plus, no matter how powerful the filters things get misfiled, leading to lots of wasted time looking for things in the wrong places.