Posts made by horseshrink

@burnout426 I've also been pleased with Fastmail and will continue to use it with my new primary email addresses.

@alphaville Oof. Didn't like that read, so I just uninstalled Opera from my machine. Had originally installed it years ago as a nod to Norway and out of curiosity. It was never a primary browser for me, but I kept various installation versions going. No need to keep it on my machine anymore.

@leocg Received this from Fastmail Customer Support:

"Hello {me},

Thank you for contacting Fastmail support, I can absolutely understand your reluctance to move away from the operamail.com domain.

Unfortunately, this decision is out of our hands. Opera has decided that from June 2022, we will no longer be able to offer our customers email addresses at operamail.com

When Opera takes the domain Operamail back in June 2022, they will not be offering their own mail service with it, and they don't have any plans to offer email in the future.

So I am afraid there is no option to keep your operamail.com email address past June 2022.

This is why we are encouraging people to change their email addresses now so they have time to let everyone know about their new email address.

Please feel free to contact us again if you have any other questions or concerns. We're here to help.

Cheers,
{FastMail support person's name}"

@leocg Trying to figure out what Opera had to lose by continuing to allow the Operamail brand to be used.

@rif Opera is now owned by a Chinese investment consortium. FastMail is Australian. I wonder if evolving trade tensions between the two countries is a factor.

https://www.engadget.com/2016-07-18-opera-browser-sold-to-a-chinese-consortium-for-600-million.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-trade-china-commodities-tim/timeline-tension-between-china-and-australia-over-commodities-trade-idUSKBN28L0D8

@arobbo Have emailed FastMail support to see if they can suggest any options besides changing my main email address. It would be an incredible amount of work to update so many accounts.

It's also been one of the few constants we've had through dizzying barrages of events over the past two decades, so we also have a strong nostalgic attachment to this address.

@leocg said in Operamail future?:

Otello Corporation

Our family has relied upon the operamail.com address since the late 90's, and so it is embedded in a large number of our accounts. I'd really rather not have to update a few hundred accounts with new info. Are you aware of any realistic option for us going forward?