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**Enter Fastmail**
I explored several options for email hosting, with [Rackspace Email](http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/ 'Rackspace Email - Affordable Hosted Email Solution for Small Business'), [Hushmail](https://www.hushmail.com/ 'Hushmail - Free Email with Privacy') and [Hover - email](https://www.hover.com/email 'Hover - domain name and email management made simple') among the services that caught my attention. Ultimately, I landed on [FastMail](https://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=11917049 'FastMail: Fast, reliable email'). Fastmail is a reliable, IMAP email provider with extensive support for custom domains. Fastmail also has strong spam prevention and [flexible server side filtering](https://www.fastmail.com/help/managing_email_advanced_rules.html 'Email Filter Rules - Advanced Rules - Help with sieve').
I explored several options for email hosting, with [Rackspace Email](http://www.rackspace.com/email-hosting/webmail/ 'Rackspace Email - Affordable Hosted Email Solution for Small Business'), [Hushmail](https://www.hushmail.com/ 'Hushmail - Free Email with Privacy') and [Hover - email](https://www.hover.com/email 'Hover - domain name and email management made simple') among the services that caught my attention. Ultimately, I landed on [FastMail](https://www.fastmail.com/?STKI=11917049 'FastMail: Fast, reliable email'). Fastmail is a reliable, IMAP email provider with extensive support for custom domains. Fastmail also has strong spam prevention and [flexible server side filtering](https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278122-Organizing-your-inbox 'Email Filter Rules - Advanced Rules - Help with sieve').
I began the transition to Fastmail by using [IMAP migration tool](https://www.fastmail.com/help/business_migrate.html 'Migrate existing accounts - Migrate existing accounts'). The migration process itself was relatively quick too (given the volume of email in my account)[^2].
I began the transition to Fastmail by using [IMAP migration tool](https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360060590593-Migrate-to-Fastmail-from-another-provider 'Migrate existing accounts - Migrate existing accounts'). The migration process itself was relatively quick too (given the volume of email in my account)[^2].
While your email is being migrated you should take the time to [set up the aliases associated with your Fastmail account](https://www.fastmail.com/help/quick_tours_setting_up_domain.html 'Quick Tours - How to Use Your Own Domain'). Rather than being tied to a single email address like Google Apps, Fastmail allows you to use virtual aliases that allow you to use multiple email addresses (and even multiple domains) with the same Fastmail account.
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**Contacts and calendars**
While Fastmail provides an outstanding email experience, they do not currently support CardDav syncing for contacts ([CalDav support is currently in beta](https://www.fastmail.com/help/quick_tours_setting_up_domain.html 'Quick Tours - How to Use Your Own Domain') ). It is worth noting that Fastmail has an [LDAP](https://www.fastmail.com/help/address_book_ldap_access.html 'Address Book - LDAP Access') server that allows you to store contacts associated with your mail account (with an option to add people you correspond with automatically), but the server is read-only.
While Fastmail provides an outstanding email experience, they do not currently support CardDav syncing for contacts ([CalDav support is currently in beta](https://www.fastmail.com/help/quick_tours_setting_up_domain.html 'Quick Tours - How to Use Your Own Domain') ). It is worth noting that Fastmail has a [CardDav](https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000278342-Server-names-and-ports#contacts 'Address Book - LDAP Access') server that allows you to store contacts associated with your mail account (with an option to add people you correspond with automatically), but the server is read-only.
For now I'm using iCloud to sync my calendars and contacts and will weigh Fastmail's options for each when full support arrives. I'm currently leaning towards sticking with iCloud rather than adopting Fastmail's solutions.[^3] I didn't, admittedly, explore a host of options for calendar and contact syncing outside of iCloud. I use iCloud for a handful of other things and adopting sync services from yet another party seemed clunky.
**Chat**
Leaving Google Apps also meant leaving Google Hangouts (which I used semi-regularly to communicate with friends and family). Fastmail does offer [XMPP support](https://www.fastmail.com/help/features_chat.html 'Features - Chat Service') for certain accounts which I have used in place of Google Hangouts. How long Google continues to support XMPP and interoperability with Google Hangouts [remains to be seen](http://www.zdnet.com/google-moves-away-from-the-xmpp-open-messaging-standard-7000015918/ 'Google moves away from the XMPP open-messaging standard').
**Fastmail so far**
I've been using Fastmail since the end of November and couldn't be happier with it. The service has been extremely reliable (I haven't noticed a single instance of downtime). It's also been nice to use a traditional IMAP implementation after having used Google's quirky implementation for so long. Fastmail doesn't have the host of services Google provides, but it is a bullet proof email provider that I feel I can trust with my data which was exactly what I was looking to in switching[^4]

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I used to be (and suppose I still am — to some extent) a fan of heavy metal. Almost all of the bands I listened to released records through small labels or independently with small print runs for each release being the norm. At the time, half the fun was not only finding new bands but actually _finding_ their releases so you could even listen to them. No band is all that great if everyone can listen to them and all that — exclusivity is king and all that (there was a sense of ownership or being in the know that came along with finding a new band and being able to refer fans of similar music to them).
Streaming services have eroded a lot of the excitement inherent in the old process of discovering new music. Now you can follow playlists or immediately stream just about anything anyone recommends to you (there are some notable exceptions — one of my favorite bands, Canadian punk act [NoMeansNo](http://www.nomeanswhatever.com), only has a greatest hits compilation distributed digitally). As silly as it is, I get less excited about finding new bands now and I tend to over-listen to releases I'm excited about, burn out on them and move on. As fans, we're less invested in what we're listening to because we didn't make the effort to discover it and the financial investment in a physical release or digital download to really attach us to it. Sure, we _are_ paying for music inasmuch as paying a [Spotify](http://spotify.com) or [Beats](http://www.beatsmusic.com) is paying for access to music ... but we're not directly supporting artists by buying those releases, by seeing the artwork, by having to go through the tea ceremony of pulling out a vinyl record and putting it on a turntable.
Streaming services have eroded a lot of the excitement inherent in the old process of discovering new music. Now you can follow playlists or immediately stream just about anything anyone recommends to you (there are some notable exceptions — one of my favorite bands, Canadian punk act [NoMeansNo](http://www.nomeanswhatever.com), only has a greatest hits compilation distributed digitally). As silly as it is, I get less excited about finding new bands now and I tend to over-listen to releases I'm excited about, burn out on them and move on. As fans, we're less invested in what we're listening to because we didn't make the effort to discover it and the financial investment in a physical release or digital download to really attach us to it. Sure, we _are_ paying for music inasmuch as paying a [Spotify](http://spotify.com) or Beats is paying for access to music ... but we're not directly supporting artists by buying those releases, by seeing the artwork, by having to go through the tea ceremony of pulling out a vinyl record and putting it on a turntable.
We have more access to music now than we've ever had, but we're much less invested in it. Maybe streaming proponents are right and streaming services will raise the money spent on music consumption in the aggregate, but I can't help but think we're losing something in the process. We've gained so much in the way of convenience and lost a lot with respect to the experience.