Technical Building the new AJAX mail UI part 1: Instant notifications of new emails via eventsource/server-sent events With the release of the new AJAX user interface into testing on the FastMail beta server, we decided that it might be interesting to talk about the technology that has gone into making
Technical Change of default MX records for domains This post contains some technical information mostly useful for people that host email for their own domain at FastMail. TL;DR: If you host email for your domain at FastMail, but host the
Product New webmail user interface being tested on beta server Just in time for Christmas, we're releasing our new webmail interface for testing on our beta server. The new interface is the culmination of many months of work from many different team members,
Company New Opera/FastMail office After many months of planning and organisation, the Opera mail services team/FastMail have finally moved in to the new Opera Australia office in Melbourne, Australia. The bold new entrance. The photo doesn't
Technical iOS 5 and mail application access patterns This post contains some observations about how the mail application in iOS 5 appears to interact with IMAP servers. We're posting this mostly as a reference for people interested. In iOS settings, you
Technical "View" link removed from attachments on message read screen in "Public Terminal" mode When you enable the "Public Terminal" option on the login screen, FastMail sets the "no-cache" and "no-store" cache control headers on every page. This means that browsers
Technical TCP keepalive, iOS 5 and NAT routers This post contains some very technical information. For users just interested in the summary: If over the next week you experience an increase in frozen, non-responding or broken IMAP connections, please contact our
Technical DKIM signing outgoing email with From address domain DKIM is an email authentication standard that allows senders of email to sign an email with a particular domain, and for receivers of the email to confirm that the email was signed by
Technical Updated SSL certificate for messagingengine.com Our existing SSL certificate for messagingengine.com was going to expire in the near future, so we updated it with a new one. The new one has a longer key as well, making