This is the fourteenth post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. What is Cyrus? If youʼve been reading our Advent series blog posts, you might have noticed we make a significant contribution to Cyrus IMAP, the email, contacts and calendar server used by FastMail.
Last year I posted about potential future features in FastMail, and the magic outbox handling support that I had just added to Cyrus. In the spirit of copying last year, I'm doing a Dec 25th post again (with a bit more planning). During this year's advent I've had more support
This is the twenty fourth and final post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Thanks for reading, and as always, thanks for using FastMail! Quick, where did this email come from and who was it sent to? From: PayPal <service@paypal.com.au> To: Rob Mueller <robm@
This is the twenty third and penultimate post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for the final post tomorrow. Earlier in our advent series, we looked at why FastMail doesn't have PGP support, and we mentioned that the best way to use PGP was with a command line
This is the twenty second post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Cyrus IMAPd development As we mentioned earlier in this series FastMail is a major contributor to the Cyrus IMAPd project. As the current project lead, it falls to me to write about
This is the twenty-first post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Something people ask us fairly often when considering signing up with us is "do you support push?". The simple answer is "yes", but there's some confusion around what people
This is the twentieth post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Back in our 2014 advent series we talked about our DNS hosting infrastructure and our desire to support DNSSEC and DANE at some point in the future. It's been two years since then,
This is the nineteenth post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Securing the links between datacentres We have always run physically separate switches for our internal and external networks at FastMail, and likewise run our own encryption for the links between our datacentres. I'm
This is the eighteenth post in the 2016 FastMail Advent Calendar. Stay tuned for another post tomorrow. Today, we're talking to Chris Davies, the QA engineer who helps keep FastMail the best and fastest email platform out there! Name: Chris Davies Time working for FM: 3 years in January What
