I do pay for my personal account to FastMail, but I still predominantly use Gmail. In fact, I pay for FastMail just to keep the address. For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me and for that I use Mail-in-a-Box [0], which I still pay for, but much less if I have to use the business tiers of FastMail, which still don't give me as much flexibility.
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> For some side projects, it gets really expensive for me
I'm curious what's making it expensive.
For what it's worth, I'm on the Enhanced $40/year plan and I use it for personal email as well as side projects.
I just setup a new virtual domain, a new profile, and a rule to move all mail addressed to that domain to a folder for that project.
Does that approach work well for you? I had been considering it, but I couldn't find anything concrete saying that would work. I never did put the time into doing the trial to find out.
I do this and it works fine though there are some limits to be aware of (see "Quotas for other services" https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/limits.html).
I have the same FastMail plan, but I want to create mailboxes for different users. In this case, FastMail is definitely cost-prohibitive for me.
I love the idea of mailinabox but I don't think it's particularly written / held together. Also I don't like the idea of PHP running on my mail server...
Well, true, but still has less stuff than Sovereign [0] and that's why I like it better. But I agree that they should probably split it into two (or more!) containers.