Product New Folders screen and features released We've just rolled out our new folder management screen to all our production servers. You can access it either via the Options screen then the Folders link, or from the (Edit/Refresh) link
Technical ReiserFS bugs, 32-bit vs 64-bit kernels, cache vs inode memory A while back we bought some nice new IBM Xeon based servers as IMAP servers. Because email is an IO intensive application, we bought each of these machines with 12G of RAM so
Product New photo gallery in beta testing With Neils Jenkins great work implementing a new photo gallery mockup (mockup discussion forum thread), I've now gone and implemented the actual code to generate these for users real photo galleries. Currently it's
Technical Firewall rules on all servers updated Bron has just updated the firewall rules on all our servers. The net result of this is that users should see no changes at all. However if in the last 3 hours you've
Technical CSS and Javascript files now compressed Ever since we started FastMail, we've been using server side compression to compress and serve HTML pages, first with mod_accel and more recently nginx. Using this significantly improves the download speed of
Technical Wap server moved to a new machine We've moved the wap interface to a different machine. Hopefully the failover should be painless, I've already done some testing and all the features seem to work still.
Technical Spambots I keep meaning to post short posts in the technical section of this blog on regular intervals talking about interesting things I've come across while running an email service. I also seem to
Technical Improved spam filtering with per-user bayes databases FastMail now has individually trainable bayes databases for each user to improve spam filtering. This is currently only available for Full and Enhanced accounts with Normal, Aggressive or Custom filtering setup on the
Technical New SMS gateway We've just changed our SMS gateway for delivery to non-US/Canada numbers. The intent is that this will provide faster, more reliable, and eventually cheaper SMS delivery. For more information see this forum