This is the final post in the 2017 FastMail Advent Calendar. In the previous post we met Rik. We’ve done it! 24 blog posts, one per day. To begin this aspirational blog post, a goal. We plan to post more frequently overall next year. At least one post every
This is the twenty-second post in the 2017 FastMail Advent Calendar. The previous post was about our new monitoring infrastructure. In the next post we meet Rik, our intrepid CTO. Some of you may already be aware of the upcoming GPDR legislation. We’ve certainly been getting support tickets and
This is the fourteenth post in the 2017 FastMail Advent series. Yesterday was all about how referrals are the gift that keeps on giving. The next post shows the two steps to keeping your account more secure with two-step verification (2FA). This post addresses a question that we are occasionally
This is the eighth post in the 2017 FastMail Advent series. The previous post was about how people use Topicbox, our new product which happens to be based on the JMAP protocol! The following post looks at an interesting problem we had with MySQL locks and what we learned from
This is the first post in the 2017 FastMail Advent series. The next post is about Ways to use calendars at FastMail. Last year I finished the blog post series with a Christmas Day post looking at the year ahead, so let's start by checking how well we did on
Welcome to the FastMail Advent Calendar for 2017! Starting from our first Advent posts in 2014, when I wanted to talk about our approach to security, we've managed to produce 24 blog posts every December. We've talked about everything from low level technical improvements, FastMail values, Internet standards, and wacky
On Wednesday, 8th November, we updated the service which provides our shared calendar and contact support at FastMail. This post explains the changes that were made. Event reminders are now per-user Each user accessing a shared calendar now has their own alarm reminders and transparency on all events, which won't
Email is important to everybody. Email is your electronic memory, your archive of immutable truth. It is built on open standards, and it's the one truly global and interoperable written communication network. While instant messaging is great for immediacy, email is best for considered thought and permanence. FastMail provides a
On October 1st 2017, FastMail updated our Terms of Service to make them friendlier for our customers, and easier to understand. These changes also allow us to progressively unify our Terms of Service across all our products: FastMail, Topicbox, Pobox and Listbox. Summary of changes UPDATE: changed tense and links
