As Shakespeare once famously penned, “what’s in a name?” And while this isn’t a tale of star-crossed lovers, it is a precautionary tale of email security. A recent article in The Age talks about the rise of the email doppelganger, a situation where people send you emails intended
Microsoft has released a public beta for Office 2010 including a new release of Outlook. The good news is that Microsoft has improved the Outlook user experience when connecting to an IMAP-based email service such as FastMail. The biggest improvement over Outlook 2010: The ability to specify a "Trash&
The following instructions describe how to configure a Blackberry to connect to your FastMail account. There is one prerequisite. A Blackberry utilizes the Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) to provide email/data services to the phones. Typically, a Blackberry user will sign up for a data plan when they acquire the
The great thing about IMAP is that all your email is stored centrally on the FastMail servers. The biggest advantage is that you can see your Inbox, Sent, and other folders from any location. This includes the web interface, your favorite email program or mobile device. Unfortunately, some email applications
FastMail has a great feature called personalities. This is especially useful if your FastMail account is receiving email for multiple domains. Unfortunately, Apple's iPhone and iPodTouch don't make this capability easy to take advantage of. Fortunately, this is easy to fix. The latest iPhone firmware (version 3.x) makes this
We get many questions regarding the best way to configure the Apple iPhone or Apple iPodTouch. The built-in Mail application on these devices can easily be configured to access your FastMail account. Many times, the iTunes application will synchronize your email configuration automatically to your iPhone. You can also configure
One of the strengths of FastMail is our Junk Mail protection system. We used a multi-layered approach. We've learned over our 10 years that there is no single solution to solve the junk mail problem. Fortunately, this is very easy to manage and control. Every FastMail account has the ability
I keep planning to add this to the documentation, but I thought I'd write it up quickly as a blog post. One recurring question we have get is people asking the best way of migrating accounts from an existing system to a new FastMail family/business package. Basically there's two
