A Perfectly Decent Email System

Basic principles

• Pay directly for crucial services.
• When you use an ad‐supported service, the advertisers are the customer, not you.
• Use specialist providers where possible.

Components

• a paid FastMail.FM account
• Mail (Mac OS X application)
• iPhone Mail application
• John Gruber’s Simple Inbox Archiving Script for Apple Mail
• John Gruber’s system for Flagging Messages From iPhone Mail

This is a “Perfectly Decent Email System”, not the “Perfect Email System” because that doesn’t exist yet.