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(or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Backups) This is a story of a close call, where users lost entire mailboxes due to a bug, but backups allowed us to bring everything back.

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Fastmail’s spin on System Administrator Appreciation Day: highlighting and appreciating our Platform Engineering team.

Email authentication: the trust layer that the future of email depends on Email has always had a spoofing problem.

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Trust is built here: in the everyday choices, not just the resolutions This Privacy Awareness Week, the Office of Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has chosen a theme that gets to the heart of what trust really means: “Trust is built here.

I’ve had the privilege of experiencing a very diverse career, and for a number of those years, I established and ran a consultancy.

In brief For National Email Day, we’re shipping something new.

Why your small business deserves better email than Gmail You started a business to do something that matters.

Today we’re releasing a major update to the Fastmail interface, with improvements focused on making mulitasking and compose better.

We’ve been providing email since 1999.

You chose Fastmail because you care about your privacy.

February 1 is global Change Your Password Day.

We all know that checking three different calendar apps before agreeing to coffee with a friend is simply not fun.

Encrypted email sounds good, but what does it really mean?

Fastmail is now available as a dedicated desktop app for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

It’s all the rage right now.

Software Freedom Day is this week, and we thought we’d mark the occasion with a post about some of our work on open source software that we maintain.

The internet is available in more places every day, from subways to aeroplanes.

Your inbox is the key to almost everything you do online.

Today we released another significant update to the Fastmail web and mobile apps, introducing more beautiful theming and faster navigation on desktop, plus a powerful new search tool to help you find the email you’re looking for.

At Fastmail one of our values is “we are a good internet citizen”.

Privacy fatigue is a real feeling — here’s how to make it manageable Supporting the Office of Australian Information Commissioner Privacy Awareness Week 2025: Privacy — It’s Everyone’s Business Do you ever feel that when you start reading about privacy, y…

I wrote back in December about my ideas for a new skiplist based database format for the Cyrus IMAP server.

Today we’re launching a new look for your inbox, in both our webmail and mobile apps.

Today, on International Email Day, I’m taking a moment to appreciate the communication tool many of us use and rely on every day.

I don’t usually like to call out the bad behaviour of specific companies, but the egregious mis-design and lack of acknowledging it justify this case.

As one of Fastmail’s customer support agents, part of my job is making sure that our customers are well-informed about rising trends in fraud so that they can be sure to steer clear of them.

This is the twenty-fourth and final post in the Fastmail Advent 2024 series.

This is the twenty-third post in the Fastmail Advent 2024 series.