This is the second post in the 2017 FastMail Advent Calendar. The previous post was a Retrospective looking back at our 2017 predictions from the end of 2016. The next post is an Interview with Jamie our Senior Graphic Designer. Of all our products, only FastMail has any built-in calendaring
On Wednesday, 8th November, we updated the service which provides our shared calendar and contact support at FastMail. This post explains the changes that were made. Event reminders are now per-user Each user accessing a shared calendar now has their own alarm reminders and transparency on all events, which won't
For the past two months, FastMail has been rejecting new signups from Germany, and our app has been unavailable in the German app stores. We took these actions out of caution after receiving letters from the German Bundesnetzagentur requiring us to register with them as an email provider. Until we
Caution: this blog post is not for the faint-hearted. It will take you on a journey through the darkest depths of despair and anxiety. But fear not, there is a happy ending. So come with us, gentle reader, on a tale of thrilling adventure sure to set your hair on
Looking for the start of this harrowing adventure? Except you didn't lose your email, because the web interface will check with you if you try to delete lots of messages in one go (accidentally clicking on "select all" before clicking "delete") and require for you to
Looking for the start of this harrowing adventure? No, wait! It should all be in your trash folder. Check your trash. Some of it is there, but most of it isn't, because your mobile client automatically cleans out your trash folder. Frequently and thoroughly. No no no no no. NO!
Looking for the start of this harrowing adventure? Good thing you're with FastMail. You can restore a backup through your own settings panel. Depending on how much mail you have, it can take a few minutes or a few hours. Mail recovered! Automatically! The day is saved! But how did
Looking for the start of this harrowing adventure? Oh dear. If you're lucky, you can raise a support ticket with your mail provider and hope they have a backup of your email and that they can restore it. Sometime in the next week. Perhaps you take your own backups. Hopefully
Looking for the start of this adventure? We know how vital email is to the every day running of our lives. We know the sick feeling you get when you lose even one important mail. We want to make it hard for you to accidentally lose mail, and easy for
