European-only alternative to Fastmail.

Fastmail is well-made mail on open standards, from Fastmail Pty Ltd in Melbourne, Australia. Its servers are in the United States and, since August 2026, in Amsterdam. Binadit Workspace keeps the open standards and moves the rest to the Netherlands: a Dutch company with no foreign parent, with files, documents, meetings and scheduling under the same login.

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Provider: Fastmail
Headquarters: Melbourne, Australia
Jurisdiction: Australia
Legal regime: No EU adequacy decision

Why teams are exiting Fastmail

Australia has no adequacy decision from the European Commission, so mail at Fastmail is a transfer you have to justify yourself. Fastmail opened a European data region in Amsterdam in August 2026 and is candid about its limits: backups and logs remain in the United States, and in its own words, "If what you need is a guarantee that your data remains only in the EU, we don't have that." With Binadit Workspace every server is in the Netherlands and there is no transfer to a third country.

Fastmail, and what replaces it in Binadit Workspace

A mailbox is a mailbox: what matters is who runs it and under which law. Binadit Workspace gives you the mailbox, and the rest of the working day under the same login.

Fastmail service	What we run instead	Engineering note
Mailboxes on your own domain	A Binadit Workspace mailbox with calendar and contacts, on your own domain.	Your addresses stay the same. Only the MX records change.
Webmail	The Binadit webmail, in 27 languages.	Mail, calendar and contacts in the browser, with the same login as the rest of Workspace.
Mail on computers and phones	Any mail program, through IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV and CardDAV, and JMAP where the program supports it. Or Northmail, our own free mail program for macOS and Windows.	Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird and the mail app on a phone connect through standard protocols.
Shared addresses such as info@ and sales@	Shared mailboxes, with permissions per colleague.	You create them in the portal, or we do it for you.
Account and sender security	Two-step verification, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC prepared per domain.	If your domain or its DNS is with Binadit, the records are placed for you.
IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, JMAP	The same open standards, so your mail programs keep working as they do now.	Both services speak JMAP, the modern successor to IMAP.
Fastmail calendar and contacts	Calendar and contacts in the same Workspace account as your mail.	They sync to computers and phones over CalDAV and CardDAV, and they move together with the mailboxes.
Fastmail file storage	Binadit Drive: your files on a server in the Netherlands, synchronised with your computer, with team folders, sharing links and versions.	Part of Binadit Workspace, with the same login as your mail.

Mailboxes on your own domain

What we run instead: A Binadit Workspace mailbox with calendar and contacts, on your own domain.
Engineering note: Your addresses stay the same. Only the MX records change.

Webmail

What we run instead: The Binadit webmail, in 27 languages.
Engineering note: Mail, calendar and contacts in the browser, with the same login as the rest of Workspace.

Mail on computers and phones

What we run instead: Any mail program, through IMAP, SMTP, CalDAV and CardDAV, and JMAP where the program supports it. Or Northmail, our own free mail program for macOS and Windows.
Engineering note: Outlook, Apple Mail, Thunderbird and the mail app on a phone connect through standard protocols.

Shared addresses such as info@ and sales@

What we run instead: Shared mailboxes, with permissions per colleague.
Engineering note: You create them in the portal, or we do it for you.

Account and sender security

What we run instead: Two-step verification, and SPF, DKIM and DMARC prepared per domain.
Engineering note: If your domain or its DNS is with Binadit, the records are placed for you.

IMAP, CalDAV, CardDAV, JMAP

What we run instead: The same open standards, so your mail programs keep working as they do now.
Engineering note: Both services speak JMAP, the modern successor to IMAP.

Fastmail calendar and contacts

What we run instead: Calendar and contacts in the same Workspace account as your mail.
Engineering note: They sync to computers and phones over CalDAV and CardDAV, and they move together with the mailboxes.

Fastmail file storage

What we run instead: Binadit Drive: your files on a server in the Netherlands, synchronised with your computer, with team folders, sharing links and versions.
Engineering note: Part of Binadit Workspace, with the same login as your mail.

How we migrate off Fastmail

We migrate your existing mailboxes, calendars and contacts from Fastmail, historic mail included, and we run both environments side by side until you switch DNS.

Before the move

We map what you have

Mailboxes, aliases, shared mailboxes, calendars, contact lists, shared folders and who has access to what. You get a fixed migration price and a date.
Side by side

Both environments run at the same time

We copy mail, calendars, contacts and files to the new environment, historic mail included, while everybody keeps working in the old one. Nothing is switched off and nothing is lost if we need another pass.
Switch day

DNS moves, and with it the mail

We change the MX records, new mail arrives in the Netherlands from that moment, and a final sync picks up whatever came in during the switch. No downtime, no lost mail.

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Frequently asked questions

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Fastmail has a European data region now. Is that not enough?

It decides where your live mail is stored. Fastmail itself says that backups and logs stay in the United States and that it cannot guarantee EU-only storage. And the company remains Australian, so the transfer rules of the GDPR keep applying.

Do our email addresses change?

No. The addresses are on your domain, and your domain is yours. We change where the MX records point; everybody keeps the address they have.

What happens to our old mail?

It comes along. We copy historic mail, calendars and contacts to the new environment while the old one keeps running, and we do a final sync after the DNS switch.

Is Binadit Workspace only this one product?

No. One login covers mail, calendar and contacts, Drive for your files, Receive for getting files from outsiders safely, Office for documents in the browser, Meet for video meetings and Book for appointments. Everything runs on servers in the Netherlands that Binadit operates itself.

What does Binadit Workspace cost?

Binadit Workspace is quoted per company, because the number of mailboxes, the storage and a possible server of your own differ each time. Ask for a demo and you get a quote with it.

Is Binadit ISO 27001 or NEN 7510 certified?

The data centre we host in is ISO 27001 and NEN 7510 certified. Binadit itself, as a company, does not hold these certifications. If your own certification requires a certified supplier rather than a certified data centre, tell us before you decide, so you can check that with your auditor first.

Binadit Workspace is more than this one piece

Mail, calendar, files, documents, meetings and scheduling work together and share one login. These are the other pieces.

Plan your exit from Fastmail.

30-minute scoping call. We map your stack against EU-only alternatives, estimate the migration effort, and tell you whether it is the right call.

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