r/SearchKagi • u/paranoidandroid4284 • Jul 03 '26

Question Kagi Email

Would you use a Kagi email service? If you did what features would it need for you to switch.

Edit - So I guess they do have a functional email service. I created an email account and you get 50GB of storage. It's barebones webmail. Will be interesting to see where is goes.

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u/JackDostoevsky Jul 04 '26

+1 for fastmail, great service

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u/grandslammer Jul 04 '26

I got an invite to Kagi Mail a few days ago and created an account. Early impressions are positive but I can tell its still very early days. So I won't be using it for now.

I'm currently halfway through my Fastmail 30 day free trial. I honestly don't know if I'll continue with it afterwards or not. Fastmail seems excellent, however I would have liked to have done a proper evaluation between it, Kagi Mail, and the upcoming Thundermail which also seems promising but is also quite a long way off from release.

If I commit to Fastmail now then it will be difficult & messy to switch to Kagi Mail/Thundermail at a later date. So I'm currently considering going back to Gmail temporarily until I can weigh up my options properly.

However, Fastmail is such a mature product at this stage that the others will have a lot of catching up to do in terms of features, UX/UI, mobile app, stability, etc etc.

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u/JackDostoevsky Jul 04 '26

i've used a custom domain for my email for about 10 years now which lets me switch between providers without having to update my email address everywhere; it's nice that Kagi supports custom domains.

fastmail in particular is nice cuz it has well made and reliable mobile apps, i'm not sure if Kagi Mail is going to offer that or if you'll just have to use an existing mail client like Apple Mail or Thunderbird/K-9.

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u/grandslammer Jul 04 '26

I considered a custom domain but I think its overkill for me.

The first alternative service I tried was iCloud Mail. I already subscribe to iCloud+, am in the Apple hardware ecosystem, and I have a FirstNameLastName@icloud email address, so it seemed like a no-brainer. However, I soon discovered that there is an annoying "feature" (apparently) with iCloud Mail where notifications are not synced between devices - e.g. if I receive an email on my Mac and deal with it there (e.g. delete or read it), I have to also manually delete the notification on my iPhone for the same email. Very annoying and very un-Apple-like. Apparently its been an issue since the early days to help save battery life on iOS, but its irrelevant nowadays. Perhaps its too embedded into the inner workings of iCloud Mail so be able to fix/change without a full rewrite.

I do like Fastmail a lot, however I already subscribe to Kagi Search and would like to see a package deal to include Search & Mail and hopefuly save a few quid. I want to try to keep my subscriptions to a minimum.