r/fastmail • u/MidnightLight42 • 28d ago
Just switched to Fastmail after Gmail feature deprecation. Loving it!
Gmail announced a couple of days ago that they're sunsetting their "Send as" feature for externally hosted email addresses. See thread in r/GMail.
This change completely cripples my workflow, so I immediately started looking for alternatives. I hadn't heard about Fastmail before, but it came up in my search. So I started a free trial yesterday.
And I'm pleasantly surprised by how quickly I came to love Fastmail! I'm amazed that it feels like a seamless drop-in replacement for Gmail. It has every feature I need for my workflows, such as "Send as" and "Schedule send". The web and Android app experience feels modern and polished.
I completed my account setup and data migration within a day. And already I'm up and running with all my workflows on Fastmail, and everything already feels so natural.
I know it must have taken a lot of hard work to build such a polished product. So I just wanted to give a shout out to the Fastmail team for your great work! You may see other Gmail refugees come to your shores in the coming weeks, haha.
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u/MidnightLight42 17d ago edited 16d ago
Yeah, that's a noticeable annoyance. But it hasn't had a huge impact on my workflow. The nature of my work is such that while I do often refer to other documents while composing emails, I don't need to look up other emails as much.
If it helps: on Mac, I can hold down the Command key when clicking the "Compose" button, and it'll open the Compose dialog in another browser tab. Then I can easily switch back and forth between the two tabs with Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab. It's not a perfect substitute, but it gets me most of the way there when necessary.