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Australian privacy laws

The past few years have seen a dramatic increase in public awareness of how their data is being used (or misused) by companies they had trusted. What impact does the draft Australian Assistance and Access legislation mean for FastMail customers?

Product

Secure websites on FastMail

Websites hosted on a custom domain at FastMail now are available securely. With one tick of a box, your website will be available over https, providing your readers with peace of mind.

Company

FastMail Outage, August 1st

FastMail was not available for the vast majority of our customers for nearly 3 hours on August 1st due to a network equipment failure at our primary datacentre. We are taking actions to reduce the risk and impact of similar failures in future.

Feature tips

What’s up with app passwords?

One of the most frequently asked questions we’ve been getting in Support is “Why do I have to use an app password?” We think it's so important to your account security that we have made it essential, but why have we done this?

Technical

Getting STARTTLS Everywhere

Yesterday the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a new website for their STARTTLS Everywhere project. The STARTTLS Everywhere project has actually been going on for a number of years, but yesterday's reboot got a

Company

GDPR is here!

The European Union and the United Kingdom have been leaders in writing regulations to protect something we've long known you value – your personal information and privacy. We talked about the basics of GDPR protection last month; now it's time to talk about what's changing.

Company

Building the best group email for teams – an interview with our COO

We recently sat down with Helen Horstmann-Allen, Topicbox COO and Head of Product to talk about the history of Topicbox, the future of email and how group email can help a wide range of teams be more productive and organized than ever before.

Company

What personal data means and how companies use it

Following on from December’s blog post our executive team has been hard at work for the past few months making preparations for the upcoming GDPR. Current customers, no matter where you are located, should expect to receive notices soon about changes.

Company

Email doesn’t disappear

More and more often we are seeing stories like this one from Facebook about who has control over your messages on closed platforms. I keep saying in response: email is your electronic memory. Your email is your copy of a conversation.

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