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New domain: fastmail.nl

We’ve just added fastmail.nl (.nl is the TLD for the Netherlands) to the list of our available domains. That means you can can now signup an account or create an alias

Rob Mueller
Technical

Enforcing SSL/TLS encryption of all connections

Users regularly tell us how important the security and privacy of their email account is. Sometimes because of how their email software was initially configured, users don't realise that their username and password

Rob Mueller
Technical

Understanding SSL vs TLS vs STARTTLS

There's often quite a bit of confusion about the different terms SSL vs TLS vs STARTTLS. To help explain the differences and a bit of the history behind these terms (especially with regard

Rob Mueller
Technical

Singapore proxy server discontinued

Some years ago, when connectivity within the pacific region was less reliable, we added a small proxy server in Singapore which forwarded sessions down a VPN connection to our datacentre in New York.

Bron Gondwana
Technical

All reject rules now silent discards, vacation reply requires spam protection

One of the original design problems with email is that none of the email addresses in an email are certified or guaranteed in any way (when it was designed, the Internet wasn't full

Rob Mueller
Technical

Changing password or disabling IMAP/POP logins now closes any existing IMAP/POP connections

We've just made a change today so that if you go to the Options –> Account Preferences screen and change your password, or disable IMAP or POP logins, then we will immediately close

Rob Mueller
Technical

Building the new AJAX mail UI part 2: Better than templates, building highly dynamic web pages

This is part 2 of a series of technical posts documenting some of the interesting work and technologies we’ve used to power the new interface (see also part 1, Instant notifications of

Rob Mueller
Technical

New File Storage backend

You may notice that the Files screen loads quite a lot faster now, particularly if you have many folders. The File Storage backend has been in need of an overhaul for a long

Bron Gondwana
Product

Monthly bandwidth limits removed

TL;DR: All monthly bandwidth limits for emails and files have been removed. Existing hourly limits still apply, and new daily limits have been added. The monthly sum of the new daily limits

Rob Mueller
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