Technical New XMPP/Jabber server This is a technical post. FastMail users subscribed to receive email updates from the FastMail blog can ignore this post if they are not interested. We've just replaced the XMPP/Jabber server we
Product Secure Login now only login button When FastMail started in 1999, https (secure SSL connections over http) was still a relatively young protocol, originally released in 1994. It was considered fairly computationally expensive, and though technically supported by most
Company Moving to a new credit card provider, may generate a small temporary charge TL;DR: You may see a $1 charge appear on the credit card you have registered at FastMail. This is temporary as part of a conversion process and will completely disappear within a
Technical HTTP keep-alive connection timeouts This is a technical post. Regular FastMail users subscribed to receive email updates from the FastMail blog can just ignore this post. The average user of the FastMail website is probably a bit
Technical Download non-english filenames This is a technical post. Regular FastMail users subscribed to receive email updates from the FastMail blog can just ignore this post. When you want to send a download file to a user
Technical World IPv6 day Editor's Note: After our test, we disabled ipv6. Currently ipv6 capable MX servers are not on our immediate roadmap, but we do plan to enable ipv6 sometime in the future. This is a
Technical Outage report - a cascade of errors On Friday we had one of the worst outages we’ve had in over 3 years. For at least 3 hours, all accounts were inaccessible (web, IMAP and POP), and for a few
Technical HTML editor upgraded from FCKEditor 2 to CKEditor 3 We've just upgraded the HTML editor we use on the Compose screen in rich text mode from FCKEditor 2 to CKEditor 3. This new editor should be faster to load and edit than
Technical Fastcheck users need to upgrade to latest version - 2.2.0.0 Users of Fastcheck should ensure they upgrade to the latest version, 2.2.0.0 available at http://www.fastcheck.org. Because of a change to the underlying protocol, some features may no