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Recently moved their custom-domain email to Fastmail and loves it; Squarespace price rises prompted looking at hosting.

Waited about 12 hours on the trial, then paid for two years; likes the clean interface, fast site and app, and runs aliases and a custom domain.

Support couldn't accommodate a custom webmail subdomain, leaving users confused by the mismatched login domain.

Came over from Proton, tried mailbox.org, and returned to Fastmail; found support great when needed.

On the Fastmail trial after leaving Proton; so far finds few limitations, works with their own domain and masked emails, and likes the clean UI.

Opened tickets about mail providers not receiving their custom domain emails and a billing issue; nine days later neither was resolved, and authenticated mail was still landing in spam.

A couple of years on Proton and it has been fine.

Very happy with Fastmail, with many domains to choose from and masked email used often.

Moved from Proton and Tuta to mailbox.org with a custom domain; fine for years apart from clunky interfaces.

Found Tuta support extremely bad: overcharged, a support post unapproved, and three days for an answer, so they deleted the account.

Picked Zoho over Fastmail for a first custom domain because it was cheaper and after two years has no reason to move.

Left Tuta for mailbox.org and likes it, with third-party app support and a custom domain.

Tuta blocked two paid accounts and one free account, and their card could not be used on a new account without emailing support.

Set up Fastmail on a new domain over a weekend; easy and everything works great.

Four years on mailbox.org without issues, but support could not fix downgrade errors over three weeks.

Moved from Proton to Tuta and really likes it.

Uses mailbox.org with a custom domain; does not love the interface and has heard of sent mail landing in spam, but incoming mail is fine.

A couple of years on Tuta; works great apart from a weak spam filter.

Enjoys Tuta though the UI is disliked by some and third-party clients are unsupported.

Has used Fastmail for several months and likes the 1Password masked email integration. Says the apps just work, has no complaints and considers it great value for the money.

Switched to Tuta and is happy.

Used Fastmail a couple of years before Proton and found it good, but now seems pricier.

Fastmail has been good so far.

Used Proton Mail with SimpleLogin for two years before switching to Fastmail. Found the domain transfer smooth and simple, and has zero complaints about the web, desktop or Android apps so far.

Finds Fastmail's organisation far easier than Proton for a real inbox, and less buggy with a rock-solid app.

Three months testing mailbox.org for the move out of Gmail; very solid and covers the basics and more.

Migrated family to Zoho Mail on a shared domain; works fine and is affordable, though with more spam false positives than Google.

Signed up in 2025 with a custom domain and wildcard; uneventful and as wanted, though mail rules are weak.

Found the mailbox.org UI clunky and dated with no dedicated app when trying to set it up.

About six months on mailbox.org via IMAP with a custom domain and a training spam filter, pretty good.

Switched from Proton to Fastmail for email, calendar and files.

Tuta deactivated their account twice, so they moved to Runbox and had no problems since.

Calls mailbox.org great and cheap with multiple aliases after almost a year and has not considered others.

Nearly got locked out of PayPal because Proton Mail refused to receive the verification code, then moved critical mail back to Gmail.

Says Microsoft 365's built-in backup is super easy to set up and works well.

Migrated from Gmail to Fastmail with easy import and replies from within Fastmail.

Says they have never been able to keep a Tuta account active, paid or otherwise, calling it a dealbreaker.

Seven years on mailbox.org without a single issue across mail, contacts, calendar, tasks and drive.

Uses Fastmail and stopped looking for anything better.

A week-old Tuta account stopped logging in with invalid credentials and the recovery code failed too.

About two years on Fastmail with no problems; everything just works.

After confirming a new Tuta account, the next day login failed with invalid credentials despite correct details.

Uses Fastmail for its features and because other providers accept its mail with less bounce back.

A new Tuta account worked for one day and then returned invalid login credentials.

Could not create a free Tuta account without emailing support, which soured them.

Paid Tuta user since 2019 who is moving to Proton because Tuta caused too many headaches.

Free Tuta account for over seven years with no issues, though used lightly.

Free Tuta account ten years old and never flaky.

Paid account with a custom domain for almost two years with no issues, plus a free account for a spouse.

Free user for a year and a half who finds Tuta amazing after the account was unusable for a day or two after creation.

Uses Tuta with a custom domain, many aliases and a family plan without problems, though support can be slow.

Paid Tuta account since 2019 with never a single problem.

A flagged Tuta account was fixed with one email, and they liked the service enough to pay, wishing Android notifications worked better.

Over a year on Tuta with zero flakiness or remembered downtime.

Had Tuta account problems five times and found customer service deplorable before moving to Fastmail.

Left Tuta because customer service was severely lacking, with zero empathy and rudeness.

Occasional spam-folder problems with this provider, but they don't feel it is selling their data, at least as far as they know.

Years of use across about eight support domains for different apps, with forwarding into a single admin inbox; for the price nothing beats it.

Six years on a Proton Visionary subscription, happy with performance, privacy and security; renewing.

Has used Zoho's free tier for personal email since launch and the paid tier for work, with no major issues.

Uses Fastmail as main email and works well with aliases, rules and subfolders for separate addresses.

On Purelymail with a custom domain so they never have to migrate addresses again.

Proton's free version is all they need; they found Tuta's UI disliked.

Over ten years on the free version for several addresses with no problems or pressure to upgrade.

Has had really good experiences with Fastmail.

Their company uses Zoho's paid service because it is cheap and its spam identification is good.

Tried Proton briefly then stayed with Fastmail, finding it solid and just works.

Finds Purelymail the cheapest and most straightforward provider, lacking only business features.

No complaints with Tuta mail and calendar.

Moved email from Fastmail and Proton to Zoho, calling it best for a complete task, calendar and mail solution.

Trying Fastmail so far so good and migrated easily.

Tuta has been fine; not as fully featured as Gmail but worth the trade-off.

Switched from Proton to Tuta over a year ago; basic, cheap and does a great job.

After Proton, Posteo and a failed Tuta signup, uses Fastmail with custom domains; apps are great and snappy.

After a year on Proton, mail on a premium-only domain stopped overnight when the subscription ran out, with no warning.

Two years on Tuta, does the job 100% and mail delivery is instant, though the client looks dated.

A few years on Fastmail with a positive experience.

Proton email is blocked at the college where they work, so student applications never get a response.

Paying Tuta customer for about two years and very pleased given their threat model.

Opened their Fastmail account in March 2014 and renews happily every year without ever having an issue.

Made a Tuta account a few months ago with no issues and is slowly moving everything over.

Happy with Fastmail for email.

Started on Proton and switched to Fastmail with no issues and a happy family.

Tried several providers and recently switched to Fastmail a month ago; it has been great.

About a year on Purelymail and it has been working well.

Their Proton custom domain was blocked when emailing a US state agency until the contact asked admins to unblock.

Loves Fastmail and uses it alongside Google Workspace for junk.

Finds the official Fastmail Mac app extremely fast, much quicker and less buggy than Apple apps.

Uses the Fastmail desktop app for advanced keyboard shortcuts with a best-in-class move-to-folder flow.

Likes Fastmail for aliases: 1Password integration and it handles replies.

Custom domain hosted on Proton landed in spam or was blocked; after switching to iCloud there were no issues.

A retailer silently cancelled a limited edition order because its terms disallowed Proton Mail addresses.

Paying Fastmail user for years; free aliases on its own and custom domains are easy to drop.

Uses Zoho Mail with a catch-all on their own domain and sending works well.

Uses Fastmail masked emails per site and really likes it.

Fastmail masked emails work perfectly; only two companies ever questioned them.

Easy to set up after just getting it, used with Thunderbird on a Linux PC and FairEmail on the phone.

A year on Tuta: the iOS app is awful, gestures finicky and widgets unreliable, so they plan to leave.

Mail sent from their Proton address does not arrive at their Gmail.

Chose Zoho Mail as nearly the only provider supporting a custom domain with plain-text auth.

Finds Tuta unappealing but it just works.

Finds the Tuta app bare bones, slow and old-fashioned.

Uses both; Tuta keeps letting through spam from senders they marked as spam many times, unlike Proton.

Moved from Gmail to Proton; it has been great and super easy.

Loves Tuta as simple, private and much cheaper than Proton.

After not signing in for a while they could not even pay Tuta to regain access.