Fastmail Email vs Mailo

Fastmail Email provides email, calendars, contacts, and file storage for individuals, families, and businesses. Mail tools include search, pinning, snooze, scheduled sending, offline support, and private memos on messages. Fastmail says its paid service has no ads, personal-data mining, or third-party sharing. It says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, supports TLS 1.3 and Perfect Forward Secrecy, and offers two-step verification and passkeys. Customers can choose the EU or US as their primary data residency. Fastmail offers apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, plus a browser app. Access protocols include JMAP, IMAP, POP, SMTP, CardDAV, CalDAV, and WebDAV; OAuth is documented for third-party clients. Fastmail does not provide end-to-end encryption in its own apps, though PGP or S/MIME can be used through supported third-party apps. Plans range from Basic at $4 a month to Family at $14 a month, with different storage and account allowances. The service is paid, has no free plan, and offers a 30-day trial. Every plan includes 24/7 expert support from real people.

Mailo is an email service available on the web and through Android and iOS apps, with calendar, address book, cloud and sharing services. Its free plan includes 1 GB of email storage, 500 MB for documents and photos, five aliases, advertising banners, and IMAP4 and EAS access. Premium is listed at €1.50 per month and expands the mailbox to 20 GB, with 5 GB for a virtual disk and photo albums and up to 100 aliases. Premium also removes webmail advertising, supports attachments up to 50 MB and provides POP3 or IMAP4 access. It includes a lifetime email address, and the offer can be activated for one to five years. Mailo says it stores data in France, does not use or sell it, and does not read messages; listed features also include end-to-end encryption and custom domains. Migration tools can retrieve messages, contacts and events from an old provider and set up forwarding. Mailo says it offers responsive, personalized support in English.