"If you want to receive status updates from your Debian or Ubuntu system, you need to employ the help of a mail tansfer agent (MTA). nullmailer is a relay-only forwarding MTA that can be used as an alternative to more complex MTAs such as Exim, Sendmail or Postfix."

I've been moving more and more of the infrastructure I run and host on to my own servers. One thing led to another and nearly all of what I used was there: analytics, photo storage, music, RSS, saved links and on and on. I got the itch to try this with email.

I've been using Fastmail for years now and have explored a number of different approaches to handling mail. I've approached it by creating rules targeting lists of top level domains, I've gone with no rules at all and a heavy-handed approach to unsubscribing from messages (operating under the idea that everything warrants being seen and triaged).

So you want to migrate over to Fastmail for your email — here's how you can go about doing so as seamlessly as possible.

I've been using Fastmail for over a year now and have been exploring email clients the entire time I've been a subscriber. Until recently, the best client I've been able to find has been Fastmail's web app itself (whether that's in the browser or in a Fluid instance).

I've spent the last few months bouncing around OSX mail clients. I went from Mail.app to Airmail, to a Mailmate trial, back to Airmail and then back to Mail.app. Now, however, I've finally settled on a mail client: Fastmail 's web interface in a Fluid instance.

I subscribe to a number of mailing lists and, up until recently, had been using individual server-side rules to sort all incoming messages from those lists in to a specific folder. However, as the number of lists I was subscribed to grew, adding and maintaining individual rules became increasingly tedious.

I recently began a process of re-evaluating the web services I use, the companies that provide them and an evaluation of where I store important data. I had used Google services extensively with Gmail handling my email, my contacts synced through Google contacts, calendars in Google calendar and documents in a Google Drive (I had used Google Reader extensively but switched to a Fever installation…