Fastmail @fastmail has been operating on bare metal for 25 years. Their planning and (over-)provisioning strategy reminds me of Wikimedia.

Situations where cloud renting is cost effective for medium or large companies are vanishingly rare, and always have been. As with so many big tech patterns […]

The stack:
📅 Fastmail → ICS URL (no credentials, no drama)
🏠 Home Assistant Remote Calendar integration
🔊 Alexa for voice announcements when I'm home
📱 ntfy for phone notifications everywhere else
That's it. 🔗 s.adhdhomelab.com/sJBQ
#HomeAutomation #Fastmail #Ntfy

📅 Fastmail → ICS URL (no credentials, no drama)
🏠 Home Assistant Remote Calendar integration
🔊 Alexa for voice announcements when I'm home
📱 ntfy for phone notifications everywhere else
That's it. No cloud dependency required.
🔗 s.adhdhomelab.com/sIsp
#HomeAutomation #Fastmail #Ntfy

Multi-window support is now live in Fastmail. Hold ⇧ Shift to pop out a compose or conversation into its own window. Plus inline replies and a cleaner compose view.

Read the full update: www.fastmail.com/blog/multi-w...

#Fastmail #Email #EmailMadeBetter #ProductivityTips

Setting a profile picture/avatar Your profile picture (also known as an avatar) is an image that represents you online. We use the widely-used Gravatar service to fetch images for you and your contacts. You can upload and manage y...

@michael www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058...

#fastmail #email

Does anyone know how #fastmail gets the avatars for email senders?

I know it's not BIMI as neither `news.philips-hue.com` nor `philips-hue.com` have BIMI records.

I know it's not Gravatar as neither of the two email addresses returns anything from Gravatar […]

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Why customers trust Fastmail Trusted email since 1999. No ads, no data selling — just fast, private email that works for you.

What makes people trust an email provider for 25 years?

✅ You're the customer, not the product
✅ Real humans answer your support tickets
✅ Since 1999, pre-Gmail
✅ Your data belongs to you

Here's what they said 👉 www.fastmail.com/blog/why-cus...

#Fastmail #Email #EmailMadeBetter #PrivacySecurity

Anyone here using #fastmail with clients that support #jmap? How is the experience? I learned about JMAP looking for a gmail replacement as I use labels extensively.

Safer Internet Day: Why your search engine matters more than you think You switched to private email, but what about your search engine? Learn how to complete your privacy stack with tracking-free search.

Safer Internet Day reminder: your search engine probably knows more about you than your email provider.
We've teamed up with Kagi, a paid search engine that doesn't track you. No ads, no profiles, no data selling.

www.fastmail.com/blog/safer-i...

#Fastmail #Email #BetterEmail #Kagi

I Moved from Proton Mail to Fastmail — Here’s Why Why I moved my primary inbox from Proton Mail to Fastmail, balancing privacy with cost, flexibility, support, and day-to-day usability.

I Moved from Proton Mail to Fastmail — Here’s Why:

https://paulobrien.com/proton-to-fastmail/

#email #fastmail #proton

Fastmail donates to The Perl and Raku Foundation.

Why don't you hear about Perl in the headlines? Because it works. And keeps working. Sometimes the best technology is the most boring.

🐪 Read more: www.perl.com/article/fast...

#Fastmail #Perl #Email #BetterEmail

Being better with passwords How to be good with passwords, and why you should use a password manager.

February 1 is Change Your Password Day 🔐
But changing passwords constantly doesn’t make you safer.

What does?
✔️ Unique passwords
✔️ Password managers
✔️ Passkeys (no passwords at all)

Why it matters →
www.fastmail.com/blog/change-...

#Fastmail #Email #EmailMadeBetter #BetterEmail #PrivacySecurity

#fastmail, #mailbox.org oder #tutamail?
Ich tendiere zu #fastmail

Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 image Rackspace raises email hosting prices by as much as 706 percent Rackspace tells Ars that hosted email is still a part of its "mission." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm;_social-type=owned&utm;_source=mastodon&utm;_medium=social

That is very expensive for email… $10/month/user?! I thought #fastmail prices for $5/month/user was pricey!

#selfhosting email needs to be a thing again.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115907321311459073

When many isn’t better than one: Managing your life with Fastmail and Morgen Bring all your calendars into one view with Fastmail and Morgen, and finally plan your life without the chaos.

📅 When many isn’t better than one. Bring all your calendars into a single, clear view with Fastmail + Morgen. Less juggling, more focus.

👉 Read more:
www.fastmail.com/blog/when-ma...

#Fastmail #Productivity #Email #EmailMadeBetter #BetterEmail #CalDAV

#Fastmail has a doc re: setting up MX records on #Cloudflare, but I'm concerned w/the sequence/timing of steps, especially considering transfers from Hover take a week.

I feel like the minor savings of transferring to Cloudflare may not be worth the headache. #DNS

2/2

Anyone have experience transferring a domain with #Fastmail email to #Cloudflare?

The domain is registered with Hover and uses Fastmail's name servers.

If I transfer the domain to Cloudflare, I am required to use their name servers.

1/2

SEHR happy mit dem Umzug zu #Fastmail !

GMail ist *komplett* importiert worden, incl. Labels, Kontakten und Kalender, und wird kontinuierlich upgedatet, falls etwas Neues reinkommt.

Gerade testweise eine meiner Domains angekllemmt - Kinderspiel, 2 Minuten später kamen alle Mails an!

Mit dem neuen Jahr habe ich mich auch endgültig von allen möglichen #Noteapps verabschiedet.
Geheimnisse sind im #passwortmanager
Schreibnotizen sind eigene Papyrusdokumente im jeweiligen Schreibprojekt und Alltagsnotizen fließen jetzt in die Notizfunktion von #fastmail

huh, so I never use Dark Mode usually, and so I never noticed that #FastMail has this cozy frame around everything. I like that

In #HeyEmail, I was lulled into rarely unsubscribing. In #Fastmail, I unsubscribe right away.

By the way: switching to #Fastmail, including making my email address use my own domain and importing all my old email from #HeyEmail #Hey was quick, easy, and in the end cost something like 40% less. Of course I don’t know yet how much I will enjoy using the interface; but everything I’ve done […]

I really liked #HeyEmail #Hey. It fit me very well. But at a fundamental level #DHH’s values differ from mine; and in a way that pretty much means I have to switch. So, #Fastmail, here I come.

Understanding email encryption A comprehensive overview of how email is encrypted, the benefits, and the trade-offs.

🤔 Understanding email encryption isn’t simple. Email can be encrypted in several ways, each protecting against specific threats. We explain what matters, the trade-offs, and how to balance privacy and security.

Read more:
www.fastmail.com/blog/email-e...
#fastmail

Fastmail vs ProtonMail 2025: Which is Better? (I Used Both for 3 Months) Fastmail costs $3/month with better features. ProtonMail costs $4/month with stronger encryption. Here's which one I chose and why.

Confused about which email provider to choose? We've compared Fastmail and ProtonMail. Find out which secure email service best meets your needs.
📧 signalvaultprivacy.com/secure-email...
#Fastmail #ProtonMail #SecureEmail

A VS Code screenshot of a javascript function that sends an email. It just uses a standard POST request with a JSON body. It's not that interesting—which is a good thing. Apart from some specification terminology you send in the request body, it looks like a standard network request.

Randomly found myself using JMAP today. (it's a modern alternative to IMAP)

I was trying to use SMTP in a limited node.js environment and it wasn't quite working. For a small hobby project, I don't want to deal with a cloud middle-man like Postmark, Resend […]

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Screenshot of the Fastmail web interface showing the “Compose” button menu expanded. Below “New event” and “New contact,” a newly added option appears labeled “New Masked Email address,” indicated with a small mask icon. This new option allows users to create a masked email alias for privacy when sending or receiving mail.

Great new addition to this drop down in @fastmail.com on the web. #maskedmail #privacy #fastmail

Sorry #Fastmail - your desktop app runs on Electron. Am moving back to #FMail3.