Historical Email delays yesterday It seems today the spam attack we've been experiencing for the last week intensified even more, and caused email to backup on some of our servers causing some email to be delayed up
Historical Massive increase in email connections to our servers About 4 days ago or so, something went crazy with the spam zombie machines out there. Previously the spam sending software spammers were using was acting like reasonably well behaved email sending software.
Historical Use Ctrl-Shift-Enter to Send message on the Compose screen in Firefox For several years, FastMail has allowed you to use Ctrl-Enter on the Compose screen as a shortcut to send a message. Unfortunately Firefox 1.5 and 2.0 both have a bug that
Historical A number of small updates A number of small updates have just been rolled out. When forwarding a number of messages as attachments, those messages would have been marked as read if they were unread. This no longer
Historical Domain split We've now rolled out the 'domain split'. This means that you can use a username that someone else is using, as long as you choose a different domain. So now, a lot of
Historical Why replication took time to setup This is a copy of a post I put in our forum explaining the reason it took us some time to get replication setup. http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&
Historical All users now on replicated servers All users email is now on replicated servers. This means that every email delivered or deleted and every email action performed is replicated within a second to a completely separate server with a
Historical Greylisting change Recently we've observed that some spam zombie machines are smarter than others, and do SMTP retrying which means that they bypass greylisting. These machines have been reponsible for a large number of "
Historical Large number of DAV logins for some users fixed Some users have been experiencing a problem where using DAV to access their file storage would result in a large number of "logins" occuring to their account. Because of abuse tracking