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Switching from Fastmail? Keep your address. Keep your mail in Australia.
Fastmail is a good service and an Australian company, but your mail is stored in the US or the Netherlands. Sora Mail keeps it in Sydney, costs A$6 a mailbox including GST, and watches your domain's health for you.
- Keep your address
- Mail stored in Sydney
- Move your mail yourself, or we do it
Same mail storage, stored here, for less
Both services bill in Australian dollars with tax included. Here's how they compare.
| Sora Mail | Fastmail Standard | Fastmail Basic | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price, month to month | A$6 / month | A$9 / month | A$6 / month |
| Price, paying for a year | A$60A$5 / month | A$90A$7.50 / month | A$54A$4.50 / month |
| Storage for mail, calendar and contacts | 50 GB | 50 GBplus 10 GB for files | 5 GBplus 1 GB for files |
| Where your mail is stored | Sydney, Australia | US, or Amsterdam with a live copy in the US | US, or Amsterdam with a live copy in the US |
| Prices include GST | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | Up to 30 days | Up to 30 days |
* Fastmail prices from Fastmail's pricing page in Australian dollars (fastmail.com/pricing), as published October 2026, tax-inclusive, per user: Standard A$9 a month or A$90 for 12 months; Basic A$6 a month or A$54 for 12 months. Fastmail also offers 24- and 36-month terms. Storage location from Fastmail's help article "Choosing your data residency" (fastmail.help), as published October 2026: the primary copy is on US or Amsterdam servers, and EU accounts still have a live copy in the US. Sora Mail prices include GST.
Three steps, and you can do the move yourself
Fastmail is one of the services you can move from on your own today, or we'll do it with you.
Start your free trial
Sign up in a couple of minutes, no card. Add your domain and we give you the exact settings for it.
Bring your mail across
Create an app password in Fastmail and import your old mail yourself, or let us do it for you. Contacts come across too.
Point your domain and carry on
Change your domain's mail settings (we check them for you), add the account to your phone and computer, and carry on as normal.
What stays the same, and what changes
What stays the same
- Your email address. Same domain, same addresses.
- Your apps. iPhone and Mac Mail, Outlook, the Gmail app on Android, Thunderbird or the web.
- Calendar and contacts. They sync on iPhone, Mac and Android, using the same open standards Fastmail uses.
- Billing in Australian dollars, GST included. Same as you're used to.
- Your old mail. Import it yourself or we move it for you.
What changes
- Where your mail lives. In Sydney, on Amazon's Australian region, instead of the US or the Netherlands.
- Your bill. A$60 a year per mailbox instead of A$90 on Fastmail Standard, with the same 50 GB for mail.
- Someone watches your domain. We re-check your domain's sender settings every 6 hours and the spam blocklists every day, and tell you if anything slips.
- File storage. Fastmail includes some file storage; Sora Mail is email, calendar and contacts only.
What changes at your domain
Your domain stays exactly where it is. Only a few of its settings change, and we check every one of them.
Questions people ask before leaving Fastmail
Fastmail is an Australian company, but it stores your mail on servers in the US or the Netherlands, and EU accounts still keep a live copy in the US. Sora Mail stores your mail in Sydney.
Yes. Create an app password in Fastmail's settings and import your mail yourself, or we'll move it for you.
Than Fastmail Standard, yes: A$60 a year per mailbox against A$90, with the same 50 GB for mail. Fastmail Basic is a little cheaper on a yearly plan, but has 5 GB for mail.
Yes, on iPhone, Mac and Android. Sora Mail uses the same open standards for calendar and contacts that Fastmail does.
No. Mail keeps arriving at Fastmail until your domain is pointed at us, then it arrives at Sora Mail. Keep your Fastmail account for a few days afterwards in case anything straggles in, and you won't miss a thing.
In Australia, on Amazon's Sydney region. Incoming mail is stored on Amazon S3 the moment it arrives, before it reaches your inbox. We never show ads, never sell your data and never use your mail to train AI. Our staff only look when you ask us to.
Your domain is yours, so you can move it whenever you like, and you can download all your mail at any time. There's no lock-in.
Try Sora Mail free for 14 days
No card needed. Keep your address, keep your apps, and we'll move your mail across.
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