# Fastmail 388 Hacker News commenters recommended Fastmail and 95 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 13 of 13 months; owners who said how long report a median of 5 years (90 owners). It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** A paid email service praised for its fast web app, custom domain and alias support, easy migration and responsive human support, though critics worry about US legal reach. ## Why people recommend it - Custom domains, wildcards and aliases (7 comments): "none support the features I use with fastmail (custom domain, security key, unlimited on-the-fly aliases for sending)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735305)) "I'm still on fastmail because I use *@domain.name and Proton only supports a very limited number of emailaddresses" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041637)) "Fastmail's catch-all implementation doesn't force you to manually create the named alias in order to send either" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972469)) - Fast, polished web and mobile apps (5 comments): "It works fantastically, the android app and web app are very good, and it allows any settings, forwarding, clients, automation that I could think of." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078006)) "It checks all the boxes and on top of that its, imho, the best finished product for mail / cal / contacts and by far." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961792)) "they're much better than Gmail. The UI loads instantly, is much more responsive, featureful, things just make sense" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46541412)) - Easy migration from Gmail (5 comments): "Moving to Fastmail from Gmail workspace was an excellent decision. Could not have been easier and I get proper push email in the Apple client." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751807)) "I migrated to FastMail from Proton earlier this year (after being with Proton since 2019). So far I'm more than happy with the decision." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50308236)) "In the end, I migrated to Fastmail and have never once thought, gee I wish I was still running my own mail server." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46332277)) - Responsive, knowledgeable human support (4 comments): "These are people for whom email is their job and focus and you get everything that comes with that, including good and responsive customer service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077906)) "Every time I've sent them an email to ask something, I got a response from a knowledgeable human that solved my problem immediately." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359480)) "It's also a great service that I'm happy to pay for -- the tech support is great and just as fast as the mail" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326758)) ## What people warn about - US and Australian jurisdiction concerns (7 comments): "as long as a company is conducting business in the US, the Cloud Act makes it possible to compel them to hand over any information" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49231514)) "American companies pretending they can magically free themselves from the U.S. CLOUD Act by setting up a paper European presence." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230633)) "They are subject to legal requirements too and probably American jurisdiction also despite what their particular position is." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784283)) - Inconsistent spam filtering (2 comments): "Love Fastmail but I'm seeing the same mails that I constantly mark as "not spam" go into spam again and again. Their spam filter needs a lot of work." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380721)) "I also switched to Fastmail recently and got more spam than before, but after marking it as spam for some time it now died down" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990773)) - Clunky 1Password masked email flow (2 comments): "I sure wish 1Password + Fastmail would let you generate them within the 1Password app without requiring a browser sign-up page in the middle." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562544)) "it won't let me generate the email within 1password on a website, and I have to go to Fastmail and then manually do it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562018)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Proton Mail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/proton-mail.md): 196 recommend - [Tuta Mail](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tuta.md): 49 recommend - [Rootshell email service](https://hackerapproved.com/p/rootshell.md): 7 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.fastmail.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Fastmail", https://hackerapproved.com/p/fastmail/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).