r/fastmail

I believe my situation is likely the fault of Gmail, but I will still spell it out in case other folks are experiencing the same thing:

I have all of my Gmail messages forwarded to my Fastmail account, which is tied into a personal domain. Up until two weeks ago, forwarded emails would go to Gmail’s Trash and end up in my Fastmail Inbox. Spam messages would get caught on Gmail’s side. During the last two weeks, all of my Gmail messages are forwarding to my Fastmail account, now including Spam messages that are getting caught by Fastmail. I am glad there’s still some Spam filtering going on, but I’d personally prefer having them caught by Gmail instead of being forwarded along with legit messages.

Has anyone else with Gmail forwarding noticed this change on their end?

What has everyone's experience been with Fastmail support recently?

I had not contacted support in a long time, and as I recall they used to respond fairly quickly. I reached out yesterday and have not heard back yet.

Not complaining, just wondering if this is the new normal.

Thanks.

Fastmail is a mature product and slightly cheaper. Also won't get flagged as spam, although that is a temporary condition.

Why are you interested in Thundermail? I signed up but am reconsidering why Thunderbird over Fastmail?

I have two separate Fastmail accounts, one personal and one business, and I want Claude to work with both.

The Fastmail MCP connector is set up and working with my personal account. When I try to add it again for the business account, Claude says it is already connected to Fastmail's MCP server.

Fastmail's help page confirms this is a known limit: "Claude does not support adding multiple Fastmail accounts."

https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/15869557281295-Connecting-AI-tools-via-Fastmail-s-MCP-server

Has anyone figured out a way around it? I am interested in anything that works, such as:

1. A custom connector using a Fastmail API token instead of the normal sign-in
2. Account sharing or delegation so one login exposes both accounts
3. A proxy or a community Fastmail MCP server running alongside the official one

Thanks.

I have found very minimal information about this so I thought I'd post my experiences and solutions so far.

I ditched Gmail and went to Fastmail and generally LOVE it. The ONE caveat is that EVERYONE uses Google Calendar, and I have a tons of shared Calendars for bands and such, so ditching google Calendar is NOT an option for me. If someone sends me an event and I RSVP from the email using the top set of response buttons, the sender does NOT see my RSVP. I've found 2 workarounds that have worked so far for me.

Do NOT click the 3 big obvious RSVP buttons. Instead, click the 3 dots at the bottom, and click one of the RSVPs there. This will open the event in Google Calendar and send the RSVP from there and the sender WILL see that response. I did have one event recently that did NOT have those options under the 3 dots, and I have no idea why. Maybe a privacy setting of the event or something.

The other method I've found is to go to Calendar Settings>Event Settings and set the "Add invitations to my calendar" drop down to "From Everyone." Now when you get an invitation, it will appear on your calendar automatically (but only outlined to indicate you haven't responded yet) and then when you get the email you can go to your calendar and RSVP from the event itself instead.

Surprisingly, one thing I expected to work but did NOT work, was that I set up a new Google account using my domain address (so "me@mydomain.com" instead of a gmail address, which you can do now), and the main email RSVP buttons still didn't show my response for the sender, I'm guessing because the response is still coming from fastmail's servers and not Google's.

I do find this annoying, but usually those workarounds will get the job done. On the one where I didn't have second set of responses under the 3 dots that open in the calendar, I just had to reply to the sender to tell them I got it but they probably wouldn't see my response due to my non-gmail address.

Another thing I was surprised did NOT work: I clicked one of the main RSVP buttons so the event got added to my calendar (but again, that response did NOT show on the sender's end) and then I went to the event in my Google calendar itself and changed my response, but the sender still could not see my response. So once it's in the "broken" state, it doesn't appear as if there's any way to remedy it unfortunately.

Hope this might help someone in the future going through what I've been going through since I switched.