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The Files screen has allowed you to easily create Websites to share files with other people, including a photo gallery option to instantly turn a directory full of pictures into a easy to

A while back we upgraded nginx, the frontend proxy software that accepts all Web, IMAP and POP connections and proxies them to the users correct backend server. At the time we upgraded, it

Due to mistake on our behalf, we forgot to install the latest SSL certificate we had for mail.messagingengine.com. The one that was installed expired on Nov 17 05:39:21 2007

FastMail likes to encourage people to find the best way to access their email. This might mean that at home you setup an email software like Outlook Express to access your email via

Cyrus version 2.3.10 is almost ready to be released.  As part of the preparations for release, we've been porting our Cyrus patches forwards and testing that it will all work correctly.

There's often some confusion with people regarding emails and the dates/times (datetime) shown on the email. The main problem is that there's actually two main different datetimes associated with every email. There's

Update 11-Oct-2007: teleflip.com have contacted us and changed over to using SSL IMAP connections rather than screen scraping web pages, a much better approach to retrieving emails. Thanks teleflip. I just noticed

For quite some time now, we've wanted to change the HTML editor that the FastMail web interface uses for the compose screen when you're in HTML editing mode. By default, we're still using