Matthew Lang

I’ve been trying to write my views on a couple of topics over the last few days but I haven’t managed to get further than a couple of paragraphs. My main concern with them has been the negativity around these topics, and I don’t want to add to the existing negativity.

Given I’ve tried to write about these topics on a number of occasions and haven’t found the right tone, is it better just to leave commenting on them and hope they blow over or something good comes from them? It’s a naive view to take, maybe even ignorant, but it’s what I think I should do.

I might try to look for another couple of things to write about over the weekend and see if that helps.

I’ve encountered several issues since trying to migrate from Hey to Proton Mail, but the process has been mostly painless. I’m still updating all my accounts, but I’m almost done.

A couple of things emerged from this migration that others might find interesting.

1. Hey doesn’t support IMAP, and Proton Mail doesn’t support importing email using MBOX, so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to move all my emails from Hey to Proton Mail. Fastmail supports importing email using MBOX, so if moving your email across is a requirement, you may want to consider this option.
2. Hey doesn’t currently allow you to send plain text email. It might not be a deal breaker in this modern internet age, but there are still people who prefer this option, and I recently encountered this issue when I started using Sourcehut. Sourcehut’s mailing lists are easier to use with plain text, so I was glad to find out that Proton Mail allows me to do this, enabling me to start using Sourcehut’s lists feature.

It will be another couple of weeks before I am fully migrated over and using Proton Mail daily.

Today, I moved the email for a domain I own from Hey to Fastmail. Lots of factors have been niggling me to do this for the past few months, but the main factor has been cost. I just don’t need to pay that price for an email address associated with a domain.

After a couple of hours, the DNS changes finally propagated through, and the email is now fully switched over. An hour after that, I had transferred the emails from Hey to Fastmail, set up the calendars, and configured the email setup in a similar fashion to Hey, as I quite liked the idea of the Paper Trail and Feed areas for emails.

There are a few things I would like to see in Fastmail, such as a bit more spacing in the user interface. However, for now, I am quite happy with the reduced cost and the fact that the email just works without requiring me to relearn a new user interface.

I still use Hey for my personal email. I’m not quite ready to move this over to Fastmail yet, but I haven’t ruled it out.