New email Astermail has gone live

[SideshowBob]

Originally Posted by dojyx

It?s much easier to switch to another provider if you have 5GB of data rather than 50GB.

That?s the sticky trap designed to keep you tied to the service.

And, personally, I wouldn't commit anything important to a service without one of:

1. confidence that the service is going to be around indefinitely on terms that remain acceptable
2. a convenient method to keep an offline backup in a format that can be uploaded to another service and read locally by third-party tools.

The first of these pretty much means using one of the big email companies - Astermail, or any of the privacy companies, could go away without notice.

[manulpow]

Gone live, but not possible to use IMAP, so what's the use of this?, the only way to effectively import your emails from other accounts (including all folders) is thru IMAP.

[emebrs]

This thread has valid points to consider. But anyone on the fence should try it and trust one's own experience. Personally, I like what I'm seeing.

I won't excuse lack of replying to requests. But I can see what a task they are undertaking.

[manulpow]

Yes Aster mail looks good, they are the only one today with a Quantum‑Resistant Method (ML‑KEM‑768, Signal‑style Double Ratchet) active, would be nice if we get IMAP for free. , I imported from gmail using manual and oauthoring: some utf-8 chars like ? or ? were not displayed (bug).

[JeremyNicoll]

Originally Posted by manulpow

... they are the only one today with a Quantum‑Resistant Method (ML‑KEM‑768, Signal‑style Double Ratchet)

Has any trustworthy independent organisation checked their implementation is good?

Originally Posted by manulpow

I imported from gmail using manual and oauthoring: some utf-8 chars like ? or ? were not displayed (bug).

Do you just mean you told the Astermail server how to login to your gmail account? I hope - if you did do that - you've now changed your gmail password.

[Avion]

Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll

Do you just mean you told the Astermail server how to login to your gmail account? I hope - if you did do that - you've now changed your gmail password.

Aster Mail offers 2 ways to import emails - Manual and OAuth:

Manual is basically copying over emails from a local source.

For OAuth, the import from the Gmail account is verified by a browser window opening to Google Accounts to complete the verify - this is not an Aster Mail pop-up.

One can always delete that access in the Google Accounts (Third-party apps and services) immediately after the import.

It's not really necessary to change your Gmail password, but that's up to the individual.

[manulpow]

Originally Posted by JeremyNicoll

Do you just mean you told the Astermail server how to login to your gmail account? I hope - if you did do that - you've now changed your gmail password.

lol not a smart comment, Aster are no hacker, password is encrypted, allowing other apps to gmail is an essential function, 2FA authentication exist on gmail.

[truemagic]

Latest: Mail rules launch. Getting better!

Aster Mail update: mail rules are here!

Today we are launching mail rules/filters in Aster Mail. You can now set up rules that will run automatically against incoming mail and take care of things that you'd otherwise be doing by hand daily.

We support building rules in two separate ways. The visual editor lets you click together conditions and actions if you want something fast and easy to use. The expression editor is there if you want full control and customizability: it supports starts_with and ends_with on addresses, header[...] syntax, # comments, and multi-line predicates with implicit AND between them. The two editors sync both ways so you can flip back and forth and your conditions will stay the same. If an expression doesn't parse, the error message is in plain English so you can actually see why it's failing.

Rules can be re-ordered by dragging enabled and disabled and testing before you save them. The whole system runs on incoming mail automatically once it's configured.

The free plan gets 2 free mail rules and every paid plan (Star, Nova, Supernova) gets unlimited.