Technical Proxy servers for alternate IMAP port (may be useful for Blackberry BIS users) I recently posted about our new IMAP alternate namespace port that may be helpful for some users. Some blackberry BIS users reported that their service provider wouldn't let them change the IMAP port
Technical Dell laptop keyboard slow/freezing in Vista I got a new laptop a few weeks back, a Dell XPS M1330. It's a nice laptop; light, a good keyboard and bright screen. I spec'ed it reasonably nicely and it's got 4G
Technical Alternate namespace IMAP port (may help Outlook, OL Express, Apple Mail and BIS users) Background summary: Since we started FastMail, we've been using cyrus as our IMAP server. By default, cyrus uses 2 different namespaces for folders: "INBOX" for personal folders, and "user"
Technical Network outage and details Yesterday around 12:30pm GMT (see in your timezone) we experienced a network outage. As information came to hand, we updated details on our status blog. Over the course of two hours, our
Technical LDAP access to address book You can now access your FastMail address book via LDAP. Many email programs (eg Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, etc) support LDAP access for address books. There are some important caveats with using this:
Technical New mail.messagingengine.com SSL certificate Sometime in the next 24 hours we'll be changing over the SSL certificate for mail.messagingengine.com to a new one. In theory, users shouldn't notice any change at all. However there are
Product One-time and SMS passwords On the Options -> Alternative Logins screen you can now create one-time password sets and SMS-able password sets. These are particularly useful if you're using computers you might not trust (eg Internet
Feature tips Migrating email accounts to FastMail I keep planning to add this to the documentation, but I thought I'd write it up quickly as a blog post. One recurring question we have get is people asking the best way
Technical OS X Mail App configuration We're trying to track down some configuration issues with the OS X Mail App. If you use the OS X Mail App, can you please see the forum thread below and reply with