Technical IE8 display bug As a web developer, you regularly come across browser bugs, most often trying to work around obscure problems in IE6 and IE7. IE8 has generally been a relief in comparison, working pretty much
Product Credit card payment problems for the last 12 hours For the last 12 hours users trying to make any payments via a credit card would have received an error that the payment had failed. After investigating this, we've found out what the
Technical Disabling access to incorrect host/port combinations In the very beginning (almost 10 years ago now!), FastMail only had an SSL certificate for www.fastmail.fm, so to make IMAP/POP/SMTP over SSL work, people had to setup their
Technical nuevasync.com IMAP push email phones A few weeks ago we pointed out a new service msgpush.com which would do push updates from an IMAP server to your iPhone. Since then we've been told about another service that
Product New performance improvements on /beta/ We've rolled out some changes on on our beta server (http://www.fastmail.fm/beta/) that should improve the performance of the new interface on all browsers. Basically the new code allows the
Technical msgpush.com for IMAP push email to your iPhone When the iPhone came out, it was great to hear that it had a good IMAP client built in. At the same time, there was talk of the iPhone supporting "push"
Product New login screens and help pages released We've just updated the login page that people see when they go to http://www.fastmail.fm. The new page is a much cleaner design, and more closely matches the theme and colours
Technical Microsoft really closing WebDAV access for Hotmail, use POP instead As noted previously, Microsoft planned to close WebDAV access to Hotmail in June 2008. However due to customer demand, they changed their minds. Since then they've implemented POP3 access for Hotmail, and because
Technical Updated: Default personality accidentally cleared for all users In my rush to work out what was wrong, the below was in fact completely incorrect. What happened was that some code got rolled out that expected a change to the DB table,