FastMail app for iOS and Android now available

Please be aware FastMail is subject to Australian law. [1]<p>The government is scrambling to pass laws for mass surveillance [2] and controversial data retention laws. [3]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.fastmail.com/help/legal/privacy.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastmail.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;legal&#x2F;privacy.html</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/09/australian-government-scrambles-authorize-mass-surveillance" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;australian-government-...</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/16/privacy-advocates-say-australia-is-breaking-new-ground-in-data-retention" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;australia-news&#x2F;2014&#x2F;oct&#x2F;16&#x2F;privac...</a>

Well done! I love FastMail, and am very glad that I switch from GMail. However, one of the best parts of FastMail is that it&#x27;s just proper IMAP at the end of the day, so while I&#x27;m sure some people are going to love this app, I personally don&#x27;t have much of a use for it.

I&#x27;ve been no waiting for this for so long! I have been using K9, and I love using a FOSS email client, but having native Fastmail support is just so much better.<p>The native AOSP email app, for example, doesn&#x27;t even allow you to choose which email address to send from when replying (that, or it&#x27;s so hidden that I was unable to find it.) Unfortunately, like most AOSP apps, it&#x27;s been effectively deprecated in favor of the Google alternative (Gmail) so it&#x27;s unlikely to get any better anytime soon.<p>I&#x27;m also so glad to see that they are releasing on both platforms simultaneously. Having used both an iPhone and an Android, I find it very frustrating when a product is released on one but not the other[0]<p>[0] Yes, I understand why startups choose to do this. We had to decide which platform to support first at my startup, so I understand the tradeoff involved. But as a user, it&#x27;s still frustrating.

So, hosting email has two hard parts: - Spam filtering incoming mail. - Sending mail in a way that the other end will accept.<p>The actual IMAP server part I&#x27;m happy to host myself, but these other two parts take up too much time. Right now I use gmail to do these two things, but it&#x27;s imperfect for a lot of reasons.<p>Would FastMail be a better choice for this? Or are there better ways to outsource these hard parts? I feel like there should be a reliable service that does just those bits, but I&#x27;ve never found one.

I have been using fastmail for a month now after switching from gmail. I quite like it, but the two drawbacks are that it&#x27;s just a little bit more likely to let spam in than gmail, even with aggressive spam options enabled, and with fastmail I&#x27;m missing out on the growing gmail ecosystem (Streak, Dropbox mailbox app, others).<p>It&#x27;s fine though, I really am happy to be paying for an email service instead of depending on Google. I am quite happy with everything else. Really easy to set up and integrate. Works well with Android&#x27;s email app and Mail.app. The webmail isn&#x27;t terrible but I just use it to report spam. Having an Android app now is super exciting.

FastMail looks tempting. But, excusez-moi, it seems quite expensive for what (you seem to) get. I have an email archive that&#x27;s around 20GB on server. That would cost me $120 a year. Right now I&#x27;m paying for a Dreamhost account. For around $100 a year I get &quot;unlimited&quot; storage, IMAP access, Roundcube access and support for domains. And this is only besides all the shared hosting features has never let me down so far.<p>I know FastMail is dedicated to delivering email&#x2F;calendar only and that they are famous for an elegant service. But seriously, how fancy can email be?

Is there any way to sync my contacts&#x2F;calendar such that they are available outside of the Fastmail app? For me that is the only reason I haven&#x27;t completely switched over to Fastmail. There doesn&#x27;t appear to exist a nice solution on Android to do that.

Have you got&#x2F;had any thoughts about making the Android app available through avenues other than the Play store?<p>(eg Aptoide or similar, or even just a link to the apk)<p>I have Fastmail and support for Android apps; but no Play store access...<p>(And if it was a concious decision not to, any particular reason? :-) )

Is 2FA only sign in with app password (google like) support coming anytime soon? This is the only reason why I haven&#x27;t switched yet.

On Android I keep getting &quot;Sorry, legacy Guest&#x2F;Member accounts are not supported. Please upgrade your account to use the FastMail app&quot;. I only signed up a few months ago, and can&#x27;t find any options for an upgrade. Help?<p>(p.s. Excited to try it out!)<p>Edit: I am using a custom domain (a few different business accounts) if that is relevant.

It seems to only be a slick wrapper around the website. No options, no unread message count on the icon, no ability to easily switch between mail and calendar...<p>I love FastMail, and can&#x27;t wait to see where they go with a 2.0 release.

Can&#x27;t wait for their `Device contacts integration`.

I would love FastMail to add tags or labels. That is the one primary feature making me still forward my FastMail email to Gmail. I love having email in my inbox already labeled (or tagged) so I can have context.<p>For example, one of the companies I work for uses purple in their logo. So I tag all emails from them with their company name, and add make it purple.

What isn&#x27;t there to love about fastmail?

Awesome work fastmail team. I&#x27;ll give it a try but, I doubt it&#x27;ll replace K-9 for me.<p>Any plans on open sourcing the app(s)?

Thrilled to see FastMail tastefully and respectfully grow their ecosystem. I can see that, at least for the iOS app, it&#x27;s pretty much a web view wrapper; I&#x27;m willing to give it a pass for the most part because FastMail&#x27;s webapp is one of the best I&#x27;ve used… ever.<p>Even still, as a green-fields iOS app, I&#x27;d expect to see a little more in the way of embracing features that are now native. We have notification actions, extensibility, file sharing, and a Pebble SDK too, y&#x27;know.<p>Still, keep up the good work! You&#x27;ll have my dollars as long as you&#x27;re not Gmail.

Does FastMail have push for native iOS Mail.app yet?

I really wish that Mailbox would accept any IMAP provider - I use Mail.app solely for my FastMail at the moment.

Pity they can&#x27;t just get contacts working with the IOS mail client.<p>Even more a shame since their Web app is pretty good.

Finally! I&#x27;ve been hoping for this for years now.<p>Let&#x27;s hope it&#x27;s as user friendly as their mobile website.

Is there an app password protect as in CloudMagic? What is the one good reason for me to opt fastmail?

I might give this a go. I&#x27;d probably want a passcode option like Boxer to use permanently though.

Really really glad to see this. Lack of push notifications on iOS has long been a sore point for me with FastMail. Still don&#x27;t understand the technical or legal issues behind not offering Exchange compatibility as many of their competitors do though. That would allow push notifications with the native Mail app.

I&#x27;m bummed that this is a brand new iOS app with no legacy history but it still doesn&#x27;t add a button to use extensions at the login page. I use 1Password to store my login information, and it&#x27;s a much better first-run experience if I can trigger the 1Password extension to login.

Finally. The web app seemed to have pretty limited functionality.

Wonderful! I wait for it quite a long time. it has already have good interface in safari iOS, but I prefer a handy app

Sure, Australian government will soon spy on you if you use Fastmail. But every other mail provider is spied on by US government at least. And Australia is an enlightened first world country so unless you&#x27;re doing something illegal, you might as well consider it better than being spied on by US government.