A gmail clone with privacy monetized via charging me $50 or so a year. I'm currently a fastmail subscriber, and it is nowhere near as good as gmail.
Fastmail specifically is deficient in several ways:
* gmail conversations. it is threads done correctly. Fastmail half-does this but the seams peek through all over the place. Eg you don't have labels, you have actual folders and those two aren't the same at all.
* fastmail search is still mediocre, and is clearly intended to be used via their graphical menu rather than typing folder/label restrictions or other modifiers in the search box.
* A gmail style iphone + android app that works offline
* better polish throughout the app (eg: if something is incorrectly assigned as spam, when you say not spam, message routing rules don't apply to it. If you create a filter, you have no option to apply to existing messages. I could go on and on.)
* spam detection that works way better
Fastmail may eventually be what I want however. They've definitely improved over the last 2 years. Eg they used to use 2fa as a monetization source (10c or so per text message!) and have recently made gmail style 2fa free. They've also turned their settings UI from appallingly bad (it looked and felt like a very junior developer's first js project) to pretty good. Similarly with their rules routing engine.
Fastmail specifically is deficient in several ways:
* gmail conversations. it is threads done correctly. Fastmail half-does this but the seams peek through all over the place. Eg you don't have labels, you have actual folders and those two aren't the same at all.
* fastmail search is still mediocre, and is clearly intended to be used via their graphical menu rather than typing folder/label restrictions or other modifiers in the search box.
* A gmail style iphone + android app that works offline
* better polish throughout the app (eg: if something is incorrectly assigned as spam, when you say not spam, message routing rules don't apply to it. If you create a filter, you have no option to apply to existing messages. I could go on and on.)
* spam detection that works way better
Fastmail may eventually be what I want however. They've definitely improved over the last 2 years. Eg they used to use 2fa as a monetization source (10c or so per text message!) and have recently made gmail style 2fa free. They've also turned their settings UI from appallingly bad (it looked and felt like a very junior developer's first js project) to pretty good. Similarly with their rules routing engine.