Product Domain management at FastMail Helping out a user yesterday with a few of his own domains helped me realise that a number of people don't know how FastMail can be a valuable tool for managing domains, and
Technical Improved spam filtering: avoiding email forwarding services In a recent blog post, I mentioned that one of the ways to improve spam filtering is to avoid using a forwarding service, and especially if you have your own domain, to point
Technical Help test proxy to improve IMAP performance Update: Due to a packaging error, the 1.0 proxy wouldn't work on most machines. The new version 1.1 should work on XP/Vista machines. You need to uninstall the version 1.
Product Steps to improve your spam filtering This post is a summary explaining the common measures people can take to improve the spam filtering in their account. Turn on advanced spam filtering Go to the Options -> Spam / Virus
Technical Opportunistic SSL/TLS encryption on incoming emails FastMail now enables opportunistic SSL/TLS encryption on incoming emails. This means we now advertise STARTTLS support in response to an EHLO command on our MX servers. Trying 66.111.4.70...Connected
Technical Removal of "bounce" feature from web interface For a long time, FastMail has had a "bounce" action in the web interface. When applied to email(s), it would generate a standard looking "bounce" email back to
Technical Improved email address tokeniser on /beta/ The new web interface attempts to convert email addresses put in the To/Cc/Bcc boxes on the compose screen into "tokens". However there were a number of bugs with the
Product Beware phishing emails sent to FastMail customers We started receiving reports yesterday that FastMail customers were receiving phishing emails asking for their FastMail account password. These emails claimed to be from "The fastmail.fm team" and ask you
Technical Fixing emails with blank subject/date/from Due to an error that occurred when rolling out a new version of our IMAP server software yesterday, some users may have experienced new emails arriving in folders appearing as completely "blank&