Having a solid email system with amazing support, just in case, for your business is paramount in today’s world. So here’s how I've set up mine.

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I love email. I love sending email. I love receiving email. I like the format. I like the technology. It's simple and it's just it just works. I don't have to worry about other platforms not working.

So when I receive the message from Paul saying I'm looking into moving away from Google Workspace, he asked me about what systems he should move to.

Now I only recommend what I use and what I've used in the past. And what I'm using right now is Fastmail for my backend and HEY for my frontend.

The reason why I use Fastmail is because HEY doesn't allow you to import archives. And also if you've got a bunch of domains, Fastmail allows you to host those domains for your email. But in HEY you can actually send out as any of those emails.

He did ask about iCloud. Would I use iCloud? Now I did try that and it does work, but you're stuck with five domain names. No? Yeah, five domain names and each one can have five aliases. Whereas with Fastmail it's kind of like unlimited, I think. So it works much, much better. So you don't have to have both.

You can just use HEY, the problem is then your email archive has to be on your local computer. So if you're out and about you can't get to your archive. But also with  HEY there is HEY for HEY for Work and HEY for Personal.

HEY for Personal is what I use. HEY for Work you have to pay per domain and then it's a different account. So if you're interested in more to learn more about this, let me know. There'll be a link below get in touch with me. If you need to help with setting it up hire me and I'll do it for you.

But yeah, I wouldn't use iCloud because there are limitations and I did have issues sending and receiving. But there again, you know, this was like eight months ago with HEY, fantastic support, Basecamp, 37signals it just works.

Fastmail again, I've never actually had an issue. I've had questions and they answer within a couple of hours. So support for me for both of those products are great because again, I love email and I use email constantly.

So I want if something goes wrong, if something goes wrong, I need to be able to speak to someone and those two HEY and Fastmail are they just work. It's like an Apple thing. They just work and if you have problems, you know, you can contact them.

Again, if you need my help, need my problems, you don't need my problems. If you need my help setting it up, let me know. We'll set up a project and we'll do it for you.

Have a good day and I'll see you in the next one.

Ciao.