After much faff moving stuff from gmail, verdict: new provider seems fine if you're going to use it exclusively through IMAP, but webmail is basically only for emergencies (and sanity-checking IMAP while setting it up).

Kinda flaky, kinda slow, kinda short on customization options that I thought were standard. Three options only, see below. obligatory light-grey-on-lighter-grey-with-copious-dead-space.

Good it's not Google; worse in every other respect.

Is this particularly bad by the standards of EU-based webmail? I know it's way worse than google or microsoft or yahoo or apple or other US tech giants.

This is a fairly small company so limited resources to develop their own systems, but I don't know if there _are_ any large companies in the EU that are doing this sort of thing.

I don't even *need* webmail, but it's nice to have as an option, esp if I end up in a work situation where I can't install random email clients on a work machine.