Product Goodbye old.fastmail.fm Summary In early 2009 we rolled out an updated web interface to all users. This is the interface you currently see when you login at http://www.fastmail.fm as most users do.
Technical One step forward, two steps back It's been a really bad week for me. Backing out two significant pieces of work. One only released recently, but the other having caused problems for an entire year, and I'm really sorry
Technical *.fastmail.fm certificate updated The SSL certifcate for *.fastmail.fm (that is, www.fastmail.fm, and all other subdomains) was due to expire in a couple of months, so this morning we've updated it to a new
Technical Chat server updated We've had a couple of persistent problems with our XMPP chat server since upgrading to Ejabberd (3.0 pre-release with patches) last year. "Malformed XML" errors. We suspect these were due
Technical Now enforcing SSL/TLS encryption on all IMAP/POP/SMTP/LDAP connections As we've noted over the last two months, we've been planning to enforce SSL/TLS security on all IMAP/POP/SMTP connections. All users that needed to change their settings have been notified
Technical Enforcing SSL/TLS encryption on all IMAP/POP/SMTP connections from July 14 As noted previously, we've been planning on enforcing SSL/TLS encryption of all communication between a user’s email software and our servers, ensuring that no one can eaves drop on your username
Technical A story of leaping seconds I've been promising to blog more about some technical things about the FastMail/Opera infrastructure, and the recent leap second fiasco is a good place to point out not only some failures, but
Product Changes to web interface Address Book rolled out We've just rolled out a few changes to the address book available in the web interface. These changes are based on some analysis we did of how people are using the address book.
Product Changes to webmail login TL;DR: We're now making all connections to the FastMail web interface immediately redirect to a secure (https) connection. As part of our commitment to making all connections between users computers and our