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What's a good alternative to Gmail? (meganice.online)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Trying to de-google and looking for an alternative to Gmail.

Don't mind if it's a paid service if it's robust.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What features in Fastmail are you missing in Proton?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Syncing of calendar and contacts with android
Infinite alias with my own domain
no spam and trash in all mail
read/write sync with external calendar (google calendar for example)
catch all sending email address

There is another important feature too that I need, but I don't know if proton supports it. Fastmail currently manage the emails from 2 of my domains. I also supply an email address from one of those domains to each member of my family. I need to be able to forward every email received to a specific address to a Gmail address. The emails must skip my mailbox completely and not look as a simple forwarded email in their Gmail.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I share my Google Calendar with my wife (also on Google). If I wanted to modify or even view her calendar, is that still possible?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is also what I do, I think it's impossible with Proton, though you can with Fastmail. This is the feature request for proton mail: https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932842-proton-calendar/suggestions/42344065-read-write-sync-with-other-calendars-office365-g

I'm currently still using Google calendar with Fastmail, I can edit in fastmail and everything is synced with Google calendar.

I'm willing to stop using Google services, but I can't ask the same from others. This is why I still use google calendar and google photos. To share with my family.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So from Fastmail you can see/modify the calendar in Google that's been shared with you?

I'd like to be able to keep the shared calendar feature that I currently use in Google with my wife. It's so handy for organising things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, you can sync the calendars from a google account, so you can see/modify all the calendars that you have on that google account. Fastmail becomes a client for google calendar. But you can also have your own personal calendars inside Fastmail, not synced with google calendar.