Hotmail has nearly all the features for of Fastmail for free. Hotmail’s offline access is much better than IMAP too. Deleted messages are moved to the trash can just like it is in webmail without crossing them out instead. Same applies to moving messages too. With a Fastmail free account you can’t send messages with IMAP. Hotmail provides this for free too. Fastmail also restricts the amount of message with attachments that you can get with some bandwidth limit. You have to pay even for spam filtering. Eventually they rip you off for everything. I remember trying out Fastmail once and it had very frequent downtimes and was very unreliable too unlike Hotmail. Fastmail definitely sucks. Fastmail also have a forum, which they use as an advertising tool, and to slang mud on Hotmail and Yahoo in an attempt to entice them with their fabrication by telling that they are better. If anyone makes a post about a better service then they are banned, so that only good things about their service are always posted.
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