Technical Restore from Backup As part of our reliability setup, we take a daily incremental snapshot of all emails and keep them for 1 week. For years, we’ve allowed people to restore emails from our backups
Technical Opportunistic SSL/TLS encryption on outgoing emails Early last year, we implemented opportunistic encryption of incoming emails. We’ve now done the same thing for outgoing emails. This means that for email sent via FastMail (either the web interface or
Technical Yubikey authentication trial on beta server We're currently running a trial of Yubikey authentication on our beta server. To enable this, just login and go to Options -> Alternate Logins, and create a new Yubikey login set. For
Technical New website throttling feature available We recently had a users website come under a DDOS attack. The site itself was reasonably small (only a few HTML files and downloadable files), but because the requests were coming in continuously
Technical Roboform can cause extreme slowness in Firefox If you use Firefox and Roboform together, and find the webmail interface slow, the problem may be Roboform. The main symptom of the problem is that page loads are very slow. When clicking
Technical Truedomain anti-phishing and email authentication One of the big problems with email is that the email standards were developed during the earlier days of the internet when all the machines and people connected to the internet trusted each
Feature tips Using Microsoft Outlook 2010 with FastMail Microsoft has released a public beta for Office 2010 including a new release of Outlook. The good news is that Microsoft has improved the Outlook user experience when connecting to an IMAP-based email
Feature tips How To Configure Blackberry to Communicate with FastMail The following instructions describe how to configure a Blackberry to connect to your FastMail account. There is one prerequisite. A Blackberry utilizes the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) to provide email/data services to
Product New login page Although we changed it less than 6 months ago, and despite it being a big improvement over the old home page, we haven’t been 100% happy with our new home/login page.