Using FastMail on my own domains. One account covers all the domains. Having more domains costs the same as one. They support several different kinds of address aliasing/wildcarding (including Gmail style '+' wildcards and multiple recipient). Their DNS is absolutely great with useful defaults.

Never looked back.

FastMail is pretty excellent, particularly if you like running mail off your own domains with Gmail-style wildcard address support and really fancy DNS. You get what you pay for.

And here I was thinking that this was going to devolve into a series of Betcha I Can / Hold My Beer anecdotes.

You're god damn right it's insulting. Same boat as you. It's really annoying. I'm trying to work here. It's not like software's getting any less bloated.

And a big price rise too.

Now that ssds in macbooks are not user replaceable -- you have to buy as much disk as you want for 3 years all up front -- it's nearly $3k for the cheapest 15 inch macbook not even including applecare for 3 years. Ouch.

The SSDs are replaceable.

Hear hear. The anecdata being thrown around in these comments is ridiculous. Like the above, and also the people saying "everyone i know has a desktop". So what? I need a powerful laptop, and i don't need to justify it to you. End of story. Apple's insistence on limitations are ridiculous and just as offensive as Bill Gates'.

+1 on Fastmail. Been using it for past 6 months with my own personal domains. Actually now like the UI better than Gmail. Such slick, very slide, wow.

Really liking the customizable options for wildcard addresses in particular. You wanna give out an email address for each place you sign up? You can write it as me@site.example.com or me+site@example.com or site@me.example.com - which I find super handy because to my endless annoyance, most sites STILL don't deal with "+" in an email address.

Well worth the money IMO.

Been fooling around with it. The UI is very buggy (using iPhone). Despite this, it is attractive. I would like to see better support for doing purely text posts. Otherwise I don't see much of a difference to Instagram. I like the personas idea, but I'd like it to go a step further: say if I had a writer persona and wanted to have a nom de plume different to my own, that would be very useful.

I really hate having to enter a password to download a free app on the apple app store.

You can disable that.

thanks!

yeah, we're really not :-)