After watching the 36 minute video on Hey, I signed up for a trial and forwarded my email to it.<p>I already pay for ProtonMail and FastMail, both excellent products. I honestly don’t know how I will feel about Hey after using it for a week or two, but I must say that there are a lot of good ideas.<p>They are really product and software artists.
I signed up for the HEY trial and then ended up a paying customer after it ended. We'll see how I feel after the first year. I am just forwarding my email to it from a G Suite account so luckily there was no migration process involved and I am only emailing a few close friends/family. If I end up not liking it then I will have an easy move back to G Suite.
>...then our servers proxy the images, so all the sender can know is details about our hosts and nothing about you.<p>Other than the most important bit of information, that you saw the email. They also get to know when you saw it.
Off-topic ...<p>I have not tried Hey.com yet and respect the author for the comparison of the two email platforms, but here’s two points:<p>1). Fastmail has custom domains to the nth degree (I have 20+ domains there, not certain how many Hey is planning to support and if they’re willing to handle replies from each)<p>2). Gmail or Yahoo seem to be a more appropriate review in these early days<p>Just my 2 cents ;)
The best feature Hey.com has is to filter out messages by sender quickly. I'm setting up more filters in GMails again after watching the hey.com video, but it takes a lot of time (and many steps) to set up a filter to move all emails sent by somebody to a specific label.