Feature tips Quick Tutorial: How to Improve Junk Mail Filter Performance One of the strengths of FastMail is our Junk Mail protection system. We used a multi-layered approach. We've learned over our 10 years that there is no single solution to solve the junk
Technical New Feature: Ability to Disable access to POP or IMAP Have you ever seen people incorrectly setup their email program to use POP when they should have used IMAP? We have a new feature to help protect from that scenario. Some background: Many
Company FastMail linked on news site slashdot There's an article on slashdot (a popular technology news site) which links to an interview with one of our founders, Jeremy Howard. The interview itself is over on emailserviceguide.com and has some
Technical Proxy server names changed FastMail has a special proxy system whereby you can access each service (POP, IMAP, SMTP, etc) through any port number by using special server names. Note: You should only use these proxy servers
Technical Skype extension for Firefox buggy, users should disable it (updated) Update 4-Sep-09: An employee from Skype emailed me and told me that they're released a new version of Skype (version 4.1 Hotfix 2) that solves the problems below. You can download it
Technical All outbound email now being DKIM signed FastMail is now signing all outbound email with a DKIM signature. DKIM is a way of validating the source of an email and is being more and more widely deployed. This shouldn’t
Product Two-factor (SMS) authentication now easier for businesses/families For over a year now, FastMail has supported two-factor authentication via SMS and one-time passwords. As a quick reminder, the way this works is: A user creates a new login password via the
Technical Hotmail and Google docs being abused for spam A user forwarded me a particular annoying bit of spam the other day that I realised is going to be quite hard to combat. The email was sent from a Hotmail account. Clearly
Technical Thunderbird 3 beta 3 includes native IMAP COMPRESS support A few months back, we blogged about a new compression proxy we had developed that helped improve IMAP performance. If you’re using an email client to access FastMail via IMAP, then the