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Fastmail uses perfect forward secrecy with https/TLS connections 9 Aug 2013 | 09:17 am
There’s been a number of articles recently about perfect forward secrecy (PFS). The main aim of PFS is to ensure that even if the private SSL/TLS key for www.fastmail.fm was ever compromised, it would...
Custom login screens for family/business accounts 29 Jul 2013 | 09:40 am
We’ve released a new feature that allows family and business accounts to easily customise the login screen for their users. Just login to your family/business and go to Manage –> Customise Login. To ...
Custom login screens for family/business accounts 6 Jun 2013 | 09:47 am
We’ve released a new feature that allows family and business accounts to easily customise the login screen for their users. Just login to your family/business and go to Manage –> Customise Login. To m...
Push events, NAT TCP connection timeouts, and device sleep 28 May 2013 | 09:48 am
This is a technical post. Regular FastMail users subscribed to receive email updates from the FastMail blog can just ignore this post. When we released the new user interface last year, one of the imp...
Google Authenticator now supported for two-factor authentication 3 May 2013 | 05:22 am
FastMail has long supported various methods of two-factor authentication for additional account security, from generated one-time-passwords, to SMS, to Yubikey. Today we’ve added another method to our...
Reading pane available 17 Apr 2013 | 08:25 am
Today we rolled out support for a longstanding feature request we’ve had here at FastMail: a reading pane in our web interface. Displaying the mailbox listing next to the selected conversation means y...
Dropbox integration now available 9 Apr 2013 | 11:06 am
“Cloud” storage is a big deal these days, and there’s all sorts of great ways to make your files available everywhere. FastMail has had an online file storage facility for years, but there’s other pop...
Fast, full message searching across all folders 2 Apr 2013 | 09:03 am
We’ve just rolled out a significant improvement to our search infrastructure. Until now, searching for email in FastMail has been slow and idiosyncratic. Searching for words entered into the search bo...
New domains added 1 Mar 2013 | 07:00 am
We’ve recently added some new domains to Fastmail. You can use these domains to signup new accounts, or as alias email addresses in existing accounts (if your account level supports aliases). The doma...
Intermittent bayes db corruption resolved 24 Feb 2013 | 09:44 am
This is a technical post that describes the history and recent efforts to track down a bug that was corrupting some users bayes databases. Fastmail users subscribed to receive email updates from the F...