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Publish a home page easily with TiddlyWiki

As pointed out in this forum thread, and further described in this forum thread, TiddlyWiki provides a nice, quick and easy way to publish and maintain a home page in your FastMail file

Rob Mueller
Technical

Next stage of the spam war

Over the years spam has evolved through various stages. Over the last 2 years it's been mostly classifiable into two main types Tailored 419 type scam email sent by individuals from throw away

Rob Mueller
Technical

Alternative IP addresses/hostnames in Singapore for accessing FastMail.

Please only make the hosts file changes listed below if you have the technical knowledge to figure out what you're doing and are willing to remember that this is still quite experimental... (and

Bron Gondwana
Product

Hotmail vs Live accounts

For many years, we've allowed retrieving of email from Hotmail accounts via the Pop Links screen. The system we use to retrieve the email uses the same system that Outlook Express uses (the

Rob Mueller
Technical

Login problems/google search result change on "fastmail"

A few days ago, a number of people started reporting problems logging into FastMail. The symptom was the same, they could get to the FastMail login screen, but entering their username and password

Rob Mueller
Technical

X-Spam-hits header has spam scores added

FastMail has for many years added an "X-Spam-hits" header to show which SpamAssassin rules were triggered by an email. Unfortunately previously finding the scores of each of those hits involved looking

Rob Mueller
Technical

FTP Server limited to 1 connection per user

We've had a couple of users doing reasonable things which just happen to hit pathological cases in our filesystem implementation.  To stop this happening, we've had to restrict the FTP server to one

Bron Gondwana
Technical

PDF XSS attack protection

I've just rolled out some checks to help protect our users from a particular family of XSS attacks via links to PDF files. If you're viewing an HTML message that contains one of

Richard Lovejoy
Technical

Web/IMAP/POP frontend proxies changed to nginx

A while back, we changed our frontend IMAP/POP proxy from perdition to nginx. Perdition uses a traditional unix "one process per connection" model to manage the proxying of IMAP/POP

Rob Mueller
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