Historical Greylisting disabled over the weekend Due to a coding error, the recently introduced greylisting feature was accidentally disabled over the majority of the weekend. Most of the extra spam should have been caught by the SpamAssassin spam filter,
Historical Numerous minor updates A number of updates have just been rolled out The ability to set a "Reply to" address with a personality. Normally when a recipient replies to an email, the reply is
Historical Proactive update! Hi, Just thought those who were hoping FastMail might do proactive things would like to hear this: I've just finished moving all users from server4 to replicated storage. This has freed up an
Historical New web bug option “Show images for known senders” Web bugs are a common way for spammers or marketers to see if you've read an email. They work by inserting an image in an HTML email, so when you read the email,
Historical More greylisting details I thought I'd take some of the things posted in the forum threads here and here and put them into one blog post. There were actualy two separate policies implemented at the same
Historical Improved spam filtering via greylisting We've now implemented a greylisting policy on all incoming email to FastMail servers. Greylisting is a technique designed to stop spam from "zombie machines". We've chosen a conservative approach which should
Historical Backscatter filter improvements Last week we rolled out improvements to the backscatter detector. Most of these were to handle oddly formatted bounce emails from different systems and the results suggest that we're now catching almost all
Historical Updates to ‘Define Rules’ screen We've made some improvements to the 'Define Rules' screen, which is one of your choices under the 'Options' link. The different sections are now grouped together into "tabs" near the top
Historical Update on server status I've posted some details in our forum about how our recent server move and other issues have been going that may be of interest to some users. http://www.emailaddresses.com/forum/showthread.