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We have had intermittent brief outages over the last few days when the IMAP server has failed under high load. We have tracked down and (hopefully!) resolved this bug as described here.

Some restrictions on guest and member accounts that previously were notbeing actively enforced are now being checked for the first time. See this FAQ sectionfor details. Our introductory special of free setup for

'Invisible' links on the Options screen with some style sheets fixed Fixed problems with 'Select display' option

General user interface cleanup with better navigation of options/preferences. New 'Delete immediately' option in 'Do Action' popup on mailbox screen. New 'Select/unselect displayed' option in 'Do Action' popup on mailbox screen.

Documentation for more email software products has been added to the ExternalMail section of the FAQ Two new servers arrived today! We hope to have them up and running shortlyto ensure that FastMail.

There is a new option when replying or composing "As Attachment". This attaches the original message as an attachment, and can be used for forwarding HTML formatted email and forwarding email

With FastMail.FM's recent popularity our hardware became overloaded in thelast couple of days. We have completed an upgrade to double our resources andFastMail.FM is now reallyfast again!

Performance of the web interface was poor this morning. We are getting ahardware upgrade in 12 hours that will resolve the poor performance of the webserver. Mail delivery, IMAP, and POP were not

There will be a scheduled outage tomorrow for a hardware upgrade. Capacitywill be doubled to ensure that we stay fast during this rapid growth phase. Fortimes and details clickhere. Paying users may now