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The X-Saslenc header used to track email abuse is now more secure, as discussed on the forum We have tightened the automated monitoring of mailing list usage; details here. FastMail.FM can not

Double spacing in messages sent to some systems fixed MIME types now correctly added to attached files, or downloaded files with application/unknown type Internal caching improvements

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Accented characters should now appear correctly in replies when choosing 'Prefix >'.

We had a 90 minute outage today. This affected only the web interface--IMAP, POP, and mail delivery were unaffected. We apologise for the inconvenience. Details of the incident are here.

Accented characters should now appear correctly in replies when choosing 'Append orig' An encrypted version of your username is now included in the 'X-Sasl' header as describedhere.

I've modified the pop retrieval code to handle message timeouts better.

I've just uploaded new IMAP connection caching code. Hopefully this will fix the'unexpected data' and 'could not get socket from pool' errors we intermittentlyexperience.

VISTO.COM users important update:MyVisto has now updated their FAQto include information on migrating to FastMail.FM. However, emails forwardedfrom MyVisto are sometimes sent completely blank, as discussed here.Do not delete